Government Investigation of Alleged Bitcoin Creator Craig Wright Intensifies
Australian tax authorities are reportedly beefing up their investigation of Craig Wright, the researcher who last year was alleged to be bitcoin's pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Technology publications Gizmodo and Wired claimed in early December to have found evidence tying Wright to Nakamoto, each citing anonymous sources. Some observers were skeptical of the claims in the aftermath of the publications, drawing comparisons to Newsweek’s ill-fated report that pointed to an elderly California citizen as the true identity of Nakamoto. According to regional news source The....
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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.....
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....
Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto – the alias used by whoever or whomever created bitcoin. In a recent interview with an Australian television program, Craig Wright reinforced his claims that he is the creator of Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency in the world. Wright emphasized that there are those who know […]
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....