A crypto lawyer has sued the US Ministry of Homeland Security and claims that the agency could know who created Bitcoin, which forces the department to share what it knows.
The Freedom of Information Act grievance was submitted by James Murphy, who supported his accusations on claims by the DHS specialist Rana Saoud at a conference in April 2019, where she said that a few of her colleagues had previously met with 4 individuals who were involved within the creation of Bitcoin.
“My Foia lawsuit only asks for the notes, e -mails and other documents that discuss with this alleged interview,” Murphy posted after the announcement of the lawsuit on April 7.
“If the interview really claimed because the DHS agent, the substance of this meeting should give a documentary,” added Murphy, who from Metalawman to X.
Source: James Murphy
Saoud spoke on the Offshorealt Conference North America in Miami in Miami and said that DHS agents met with the 4 individuals who assumed that they created Bitcoin and asked what their motives were and what the “final” for Bitcoin.
“The agents flew to California and so they realized that he was not alone to do that. There were three other people, they sat down and talked to them to learn the way it actually works and what was responsible for this,” said Saoud within the presentation, which is accessible on YouTube.
If the DHS opposes the disclosure, Murphy said that he would “pursue the conclusion” to resolve the key.
However, Murphy noted that it is feasible that Saoud and the opposite DHS agents were incorrect and didn’t interview the actual Satoshi Nakamoto.
Murphy is supported by the previous deputy US lawyer Brian Field, who makes a speciality of legal disputes with information -Act files.
The aim of the law on freedom of data is to advertise transparency and accountability by granting public access to information from the federal government.
The efforts to discover Satoshi Nakamoto have failed
The lawsuit follows a wave of the most recent efforts that tries to uncover Satoshi's identity.
Last October, a controversial HBO documentary claimed that Peter Todd, a Bitcoin Cypherpunk, invented Bitcoin. Todd referred this conclusion, and many of the industry kings said that the HBO evidence was weak.
Nick Szabo, Adam Back and Hal Finney have also certain their names with Satoshi's identity. Szabo and back regulates the claims that they’re Satoshi, in addition to Finney, before he died in 2013.
In the meantime, members of the Bitcoin community are divided whether the disclosing of Satoshi's identity for Bitcoin is positive.
Some fear that the disclosing of Satoshi's identity affects the decentralized ethos of Bitcoin and Satoshi's security endangered, while others wish to make sure that Bitcoin was not created by the US government.
