Founder of Bit Coin Eccentric Model Train Nut!

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/03/14/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto.html

Now when will MR accept Bitcoin?

Two weeks before our meeting in Temple City, I struck up an email correspondence with Satoshi Nakamoto, mostly discussing his interest in upgrading and modifying model steam trains with computer-aided design technologies. I obtained Nakamoto’s email through a company he buys model trains from.

He has been buying train parts from Japan and England since he was a teenager, saying, “I do machining myself, manual lathe, mill, surface grinders.”

The process also requires a good amount of math, something at which Nakamoto - and his entire family - excels. The eldest of three brothers who all work in engineering and technical fields, Nakamoto graduated from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, Calif., with a degree in physics. But unlike his brothers, his circuitous career path is very hard to trace.

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The Newsweek article has been debunked.

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– Bitcoin may have come about because he was frustrated about his model train hobby, and “his frustration with bank fees and high exchange rates when he was sending international wires to England to buy model trains.”