> That's how projects work. But that's just it. It's close to self-evident that any military contract work you did years ago would have been turned over to oth

> That's how projects work. But that's just it. It's close to self-evident that any military contract work you did years ago would have been turned over to others (or simply terminated) since your contract ended, and especially that you would no longer be in charge; why would you want to specifically assert that just after saying that your contracts were long over? Conversely, elaborating on how your work has been turned over to others and you are no longer in charge is what you'd expect TheRealSatoshiNakamoto to say if he was confirming his role in Bitcoin but refusing to talk further about it. (But again, all of this is assuming that the quotation is accurate. If the journalist misremembered or altered it in a way that better fit her hopes or expectations—or just made it up—then obviously it's not safe to draw conclusions from it.)