Craig Steven Wright to Confirm Identity as Satoshi Nakamoto?
There has been a long list of figures who the press and online commenters have speculated are Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin. At one point, when Newsweek claimed Dorian Nakamoto, an unnamed individual left a cryptographic message stating, “I am not Dorian Nakamoto.” Many argued this in-and-of-itself does not prove Satoshi left the message. Read on to learn what Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen would want to prove Satoshi’s true identity. The sage continued in late 2015. Two well-known online technology websites published leaked documents purporting to prove Craig Steven Wright, an....
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The Latest Satoshi has turned out to be another damp squib. The search continues? There is something about Satoshi Nakamoto’s of the world which seems to be distinctly common and familiar. They come out of the woodwork, only to go scurrying back in. Remember the curious case of Dorian S Nakamoto and the 2014 media circus which ultimately ended when he denied being the inventor of the world’s first cryptocurrency to the Associated Press? Fast forward to 2016 and here we are with yet another Satoshi Nakamoto, this time an Australian by the name of Dr. Craig Steven Wright. Who or what is....
The con is over. Dr. Craig Steven Wright will not provide proof he is Satoshi Nakamoto. While Gavin Andresen admits he might have been fooled, Jon Matonis stands behind Wright’s claim that he is Satoshi. The Economist, BBC and GQ broke May 2 that Craig Steven Wright, whose political views Julian Assange called “amaeteur” in a 1996 e-mail, has provided proof he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. Experts doubted this claim based on the ‘proof,’ but Wright promised further “extraordinary evidence” to back his assertions. Regardless, Craig Steven Wright, whose home was raided in....
Determining the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto isn’t as simple as solving the paternity of a brilliant child, in which a DNA test would solve the issue quickly. Bitcoin, from its foundation, has never been so simple. Craig Steven Wright, a 45-year-old Australian inventor and computer scientist, now claims he, in fact, is Nakamoto after denying it in December when he was first “outed.” Wright, according to a blog posted today, now says he is Nakamoto and has cryptographic proof of it. The Economist, in partnership with GQ Magazine and the BBC, spoke to Wright prior to the blog post and....
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....
On December 8, American magazine Wired "revealed" that the mysterious creator of Bitcoin-Satoshi Nakamoto-is a 44-year-old Australian computer scientist named Craig Steven Wright. Journalists from Wired Magazine provided the links of Wright's PGP keys, which allegedly linked to Satoshi Nakamoto, as well as Wright's blog post months before the release of the Bitcoin white paper and an archived copy of one of his blog post in January, 2009 which stated: "The Beta of Bitcoin is live tomorrow. This is decentralized... We try until it works." The disclosure of Satoshi Nakamoto's "true" identity....