I came up with the idea for Bitcoin in July of 2009 on the forum Godlike Productions. I presented the idea in a thread I posted detailing personal experiences of mine. That thread had well over 150,000 views and I spoke with an Anonymous computer programmer who claimed they could program Bitcoin.
The programmer asked for my permission and I granted it under the unspoken understanding that he would explain the origin of the idea truthfully should it be a success. Instead this individual simply took the idea and programmed the software without explaining where the idea for the software originated. I never gave this person permission to lie about where they got the idea from in the beginning and that's what took place.
I believe the programmers of the Bitcoin software (Craig Wright, Hal Finney, and Gavin Andrersen) simply changed the date settings in the software to make it appear that transactions were taking place from January 2009 to July of 2009 when I presented the idea. That way when these individuals presented the software to people outside of their circle they already had a mountain of data "proving" that they were source of the idea. When, in reality they simply changed the date settings in the software to make the early transactions in the Blockchain Ledger appear to have taken place before I presented the idea for the Bitcoin software in July of 2009.
I've known Bitcoin was my idea since I first heard of hit in 2013-2014, but I was in disbelief that a few posts on a forum from 2009 could manifest into a massive financial market. Also, I was busted growing weed 2 months after presenting the idea for Bitcoin and that distorted my memory causing me to focus on other matters. By the time I heard of Bitcoin I had almost forgotten that I had even posted the idea for it and failed to remember the details of what I posted...
My thread was removed from Godlike Productions a few months after I posted the idea for Bitcoin. Jason Lucas the owner, was likely involved in the theft of the idea himself. He personally claimed that my thread was removed because of Facebook links being posted, but mods had seen that thread for months prior to its removal and would've removed it before had that been the reason. I believe the actual reason Jason removed my thread was to hide the origin of the idea for Bitcoin....
My name is David Steven Leakey and I'm the inventor of Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency. All of this was my idea. There was no other person that had any input on it. All Craig Wright, Hal Finney, and Gavin Andresen did was create a Blockchain Ledger in order to falsify transaction records and make it appear that they were the inventors of Bitcoin. They didn't invent anything. They simply took my idea, programmed it, and then lied about being the visionaries who invented it.
It was entirely my idea to create a Encrypted Currency system. As I said, no other person had any input on the origin of the idea.