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Bitcoin doesn’t have an official mascot. 

Still, for at least a few years, Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto was the closest thing Bitcoin had to a spirit animal — an unassuming everyman who became symbolic of Bitcoin’s power to change the world from humble beginnings.

Newsweek started it on March 6, 2014 with “The Face Behind Bitcoin,” in which journalist Leah McGrath Goodman detailed a months-long investigation into potential candidates. But the article hinged on a misunderstanding.

Earlier attempts considered the Nakamoto name a pseudonym. Goodman instead searched for…

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