More likely Bit Coin was created by Nick Szabo and when no one was interested in BitGold he relased it as a public open souce platform called BitCoin, no different to how Berckley released their version of Unix as free open source BSD when no one was interested in financing it as a serious product.
"n 1998, Szabo designed a mechanism for a decentralized digital currency he called "bit gold".[11][12] Bit gold was never implemented, but has been called "a direct precursor to the Bitcoinarchitecture."[13]"
