# Professor Aswath Damodaran is interviewed for a feature story on Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of bitcoin

1 Faculty News December 16, 2017 ![New York Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031743.jpg?itok=0h5FlsRq)>

Excerpt from [The New York Post](https://nypost.com/2017/12/16/the-person-who-created-bitcoin-remains-a-mystery/) -- "[Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), professor of finance at New York University, said, '\[Nakamoto’s\] on his way to being a billionaire now. He kept more than 10,000 bitcoins.' And he’s not surprised by the creator’s low profile: 'Bitcoin was designed by paranoid geeks for paranoid geeks.'"

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