The creator of Bitcoin? “It is an Australian entrepreneur” – The Republic

ON his real identity, concealed through the use of the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto , were made endless conjecture. All assumptions which have often proved weak or completely unfounded. Now the creator of Bitcoin – ensure – was unmasked. Again. Would Craig Steven Wright , Australian of 44 years, the mind that invented the virtual criptomoneta presented to the world in January 2009. In turn the spotlight on him, and his American friend Dave Kleinman , are two articles of Inquiry published by Wired and Gizmodo. That, according to reports from Reuters, they would be followed even by an incursion of twelve police officers in Federal Wright’s house, in Sydney. Although the Australian authorities deny a connection between the two events.

Of course, it is not the first time that the mystery seems to be suddenly solved. In recent years, know the face of Nakamoto has become an obsession for both journalists is for fans of bitcoin. Some examples? At first, he was suspected of Michael Clear , graduated in cryptography at Trinity College Dublin. Then came the moment Vili Lehdonvirta, former Finnish game developer. Both have denied. Again, within the community of bitcoiner, it became often called Jed McCaleb , the alleged founder of Mt. Gox, the exchange platform dedicated to the virtual currency, later acquired by Mark Karpeles .

In 2014 it happened to Newsweek make the scoop: Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, a 64 year old of Japanese descent living in California, is the infamous architect of electronic cash-to-peer peer, claimed the US magazine in a cover made history. The question, however, has resulted in a stalemate, since he has always denied any involvement. But on this occasion – written by journalists Andy Greenberg and Gwern Branwen – there are two possible options: either Wright designed seriously or bitcoin is a brilliant con artist who wants I am deeply believed.

Among the evidence against him there would be the property of two supercomputers (for those who are used to the so-called mining tasks), a post to his blog in August 2008 which mentions It plans to release an essay on criptomoneta. And another, now deleted, which dates back to January 10, 2009, the day after the official launch of bitcoins, which reads: “The beta version of bitcoin is live tomorrow. It is decentralized. We will try until it works.” But to weigh are mainly a series of emails revealed by Gizmodo. The editors tell of having received them from an anonymous source who has boasted not only to know the true identity of Satoshi, but to have worked for him. “I hacked Satoshi Nakamoto”, it is the text of the first. “These messages all come from his business account. The person in question is Craig Wright”. Follows a series of correspondence in which the Australian is confident repeatedly, alternately, or to be the father of criptomoneta in person; or at least of having participated in its gestation since the dawn. Brief biography of the character: anything but modest, on the website of one of his many companies – Panopticrypt – Wright calls himself “the main IT security expert in the world”. And they last announced on his LinkedIn page creation of the “first bitcoin bank in the world”. His may be only allegations, as well as the leak a perfect staging? Perhaps, but in support of his words there would also be a message of 2014 in which Wright wrote three colleagues using the address satoshi@vistomail.com: the same that Nakamoto regularly used to communicate with the top developers and users of bitcoin.

Another aspect of the story revealed by Gizmodo is the relationship between Craig Wright and his friend Dave Kleiman, an expert in computer forensics, who lived in Palm Beach County Florida. The latter would have been very involved in plans for Wright, as well as owner of a Bitcoin worth hundreds of millions of dollars. A paradox when you consider that Kleiman died in 2013, in absolute poverty, after being forced to a wheelchair since a motorcycle accident in 1995. Her decomposed body was found, surrounded by empty bottles of alcohol and next a loaded gun. “Craig, I think you’re crazy,” it is what we read in an exchange between the two dating back to 2011. “But I believe in what we’re trying to do.” True or false this cue to Wired and Gizmodo, certainly speculation about the identity of Nakamoto will continue.

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