Live Blog: Satoshi Nakamoto Revealed?
Australian academic Craig Wright went public today by declaring, and providing evidence to the claim, that he is in fact bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. If true, such a discovery would at long last unveil the creator of the controversial technology now increasingly of interest to major financial institutions and businesses. We update you on the latest speculation and commentary as the story unfolds. 14:17 Marco Santori: Cadence of His Speech is the Same as Satoshi by Jacob Donnelly Marco Santori, a lawyer at Pillsbury, told reporters at Consensus 2016 that he believes Craig Wright is....
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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....
People need to keep in mind the cryptocurrency can easily survive without ever knowing who created it, as gaining that knowledge would change nothing at all in the long run. Despite the always present mystery of who Satoshi Nakamoto is, Bitcoin has been able to survive and prosper without the identity of its creator ever being revealed. Now that everyone seems to be on the Easter Egg hunt to find out what the connection between Wright and Nakamoto really is, we need to keep in mind this is about Bitcoin and not personal glory. At times like these, people tend to forget Bitcoin has been....
Satoshi Nakamoto's broke a three year long silence, telling the world he is not Dorian Nakamoto (photo). Every post he made can be found in the database of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute. Satoshi Nakamoto remains an obscure figure to most people that are involved in cryptocurrencies. As the creator of Bitcoin, he is the reason we are all here. You would not be reading this article if it weren't for him. Heck, I would not have written this text, and we would probably think virtual currencies could only exist in a galaxy far, far away. Inventor of Bitcoin. However, Nakamoto is real. Whether....
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....
This is a guest post by Derek Watson. So, it turns out that Satoshi Nakamoto is not Satoshi Nakamoto. According to Andreas Antonopoulos, who was charged with giving him the bitcoins that had been raised for him as a sort of apology for the Newsweek fiasco (and explaining what they were), he doesn't know how to use a Web browser. So, assuming that Satoshi didn't invent the Bitcoin protocol, have a stroke and retire to build model railway engines, what should we think about the Creator? A lot of effort has been put into trying to work out who Satoshi is. His last words were that he was....