Police Raid Home of Alleged Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright
Police in Australia have raided the home of Craig Wright, the tech entrepreneur who reports suggest may be one of two individuals behind the creation of bitcoin's protocol. The Guardian reported that police entered Wright's home on Wednesday afternoon, hours after the release of two articles, one by Wired and another by Gizmodo, that published information linking the 44-year-old to the digital currency's anonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto. The news outlet indicated 10 police officers visited the house at 1:30pm local time, and that these agents were seen searching cupboards and areas of....
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Australian police have raided the Sydney home and office of Craig Steven Wright, the man alleged to be bitcoin's inventor as the anonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. Australian Federal police in Sydney have raided the home and office of Craig Wright who is identified as the creator of bitcoin. According to The Guardian, more than 10 police personnel arrived in Gordon, a Sydney suburb to raid a home belonging to Craig Wright. The raid was conducted not long after WIRED and Gizmodo revealed investigations leading the publications to believe they may have discovered bitcoin's creator. The Guardian....
Authorities are investigating Craig Wright, the man now believed to be bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, but the reasons behind the latest actions in Australia are murky. Following the publication of new evidence suggesting Australian businessman Craig S Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto, law enforcement officials appear to be suddenly interested in Wright. Police were quick to raid his home and office in Sydney, Australia, yesterday. The actions have so far ignited speculation as to why authorities are interested in Wright, and whether this has to do with his connection to the digital currency.....
As we reported yesterday here at NewsBTC, the hot new rumor in the Bitcoin space is that a relative unknown, Craig Steven Wright, may be Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of the digital currency Bitcoin. This idea was spread by WIRED Magazine and Gizmodo on Tuesday, but the rumor may have been started by Wright, himself, after his recent Skype call to Bitcoin Investor's Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Regardless of the origin, this new shot of fame coincides with a fair amount of personal turmoil, as Wright's home has just been been the subject of a police raid in Australia. Reuters reports....
Investigations by major tech outlets Wired and Gizmodo may have potentially identified bitcoin's creator. Satoshi Nakamoto, they say, is 44-year-old Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright, who is thought to have created the bitcoin protocol alongside US forensic researcher David Kleiman, now deceased. This, however, is not the first time that major news outlets embark on a quest to decipher the identity of bitcoin's mysterious creator. With Satoshi Nakamoto's identity still unconfirmed, CoinDesk has created a poll to find out exactly what its readership thinks about the most recent....
Following a document trail that claimed high-performance computing firm SGI was partnering with Craig Wright and his supercomputer firm, Cloudcroft Supercomputers, SGI has now denied any relationship with alleged Bitcoin creator Craig Wright. A letter, complete with the SGI letterhead and the signature of SGI APAC service director Greg McKeon had the computing firm contend that it was assisting Cloudcroft Supercomputers Australia and its founder & CEO Craig Wright in developing "hyper-density machines and supercomputers." The letter also claimed a previous endeavor between SGI and....