Martin Shkreli, notorious for price-hiking of an HIV drug, allegedly lost $15 mln in bitcoins. The “America’s most hated man” insists he has secured the help of Satoshi Nakamoto himself to get the money back.

Shkreli, the former CEO of New York-based Turing Pharmaceuticals, is most famous for 55-fold overpricing of the life-saving HIV medicine Daraprim after purchasing the rights to the drug. He has claimed that someone called Daquan stole about 37,000 bitcoins from him promising to sell the exclusive rights to Kanye West’s new album The Life of Pablo.

Shortly after the theft the victim’s credit details appeared on Twitter and somebody has used the opportunity to buy a 55-gallon jug of lubricant and post it to Shkreli’s home address, The Next Web reports.

The ex-pharmacist, currently on bail for securities fraud, complained about the incident on his Twitter calling it the worst day in his life and moaning how much pain and suffering the incident caused him. He announced that out of frustration he has given up rap music.

“Also, idiots, I've gotten in touch with Sitoshi (Bitcoin's creator) and he's agreed to help me get my money back. I always win,” he claimed on his Twitter account.

Shkreli did not specify how he managed to reach Satoshi (misspelled in his tweet) whose real identity has been the greatest mystery ever since the creation of bitcoin. 

In December 2015, the identification of Satoshi Nakamoto with an Australian tech entrepreneur Craig Wright was acknowledged problematic. Other “candidates” include Hal Finney and Nick Szabo who all deny their identification as bitcoin founders.  The most recent result of the hunt for Nakamoto has been revealed by a user called Bounty Hunter who claimed he had found the man in Poland. According to his theory, Nakamoto is a modest Wrocław programmer Paweł Pszona who developed bitcoin either on his own or with the help of his professor Grzegorz Stachowiak. No need to say, both reject any connection.

Sonya Belova