Reports: An Australian Entrepreneur Might Be Satoshi Nakamoto

Reports: An Australian Entrepreneur Might Be Satoshi Nakamoto

If newly revealing reports from online publications Wired and Gizmodo are to be believed, a 44-year old Australian entrepreneur called Craig Wright may be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Following an investigation, WIRED claims that that it has "obtained the strongest evidence yet of Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity." Unsurprisingly, the report that Craig Steven Wright, a 44-year old Australian entrepreneur may be Satoshi Nakamoto has garnered plenty of interest soon after publishing. WIRED, for its part, notes with a disclaimer about the report's....


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