BIRMINGHAM – Recent speculation that Dustin Trammel is the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin and somehow connected to the Silk Road marketplace drove this Texas-based security researcher to post a denial to his website.

Bitcoins are the first form of digital currency that, according to Satoshi Nakamoto the pseudonym for Bitcoin’s elusive creator, does not rely on trusting a third party to keep track of them. Bitcoin has captured the imagination of many peoplewith their value skyrocketing in recent weeks to almost $973/BTC.

Trammel wrote on his site: ?First, I am not Satoshi Nakamoto. I am a security researcher and fan of cryptography as well as a Libertarian and a fan of alternative currencies.?

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