The publications both used documents, leaked emails, interviews, and a transcript of a meeting reportedly between Wright and Australian tax officials in order to make the connection.
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More than 10 police arrived at Wright’s home in the Sydney suburbs on the afternoon of December 9, the Guardian reported, and, forced open the home and started searching the garage. Nakamoto dropped off the map as bitcoin began to attract widespread attention, but proponents say that doesn’t matter; the currency obeys its own, internal logic.
In the article, Wired mentions that “Either Wright invented bitcoin, or he’s a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did”.
This “evidence” includes a whitepaper Wright published on his personal in 2008 outlining his plans to publish a cryptocurrency paper.
Gizmodo, meanwhile, reports that Wright’s wife has confirmed he had been working on ideas related to digital currency, though did not mention bitcoin.
But the timing of the raid is likely to add to conspiracy theories around bitcoin, a system that launched in near obscurity in early 2009.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) was a bit more forthcoming, telling Reuters that it was barking up the wrong tree, stating that its “presence at Mr Wright’s property is not associated with the media reporting overnight about bitcoins”.
Hours after the two reports were published, Australian police stormed Wright’s home in Sydney.
The identity of the person who created bitcoin, the cryptocurrency, six years ago, has always been veiled in mystery.
The Australian Tax Office did not comment, citing confidentiality. In those leaked documents, Wright strongly implies that he is Satoshi Nakamoto.
DeMorgan also says on its website that Mr. Wright had once been a digital forensic expert and trainer with the Australian Federal Police.
The question of who exactly is behind the curtain – known only as Satoshi Nakamoto – has been of interest to fans, critics and law enforcement alike since Bitcoin first emerged in 2009.
One of the tipster told Gizmondo that he hacked Nakamoto’s business account.
Last year U.S. publication Newsweek reckoned it had the answer, alleging the creator was a Californian man called Dorian Nakamoto.
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Just minutes later, the Gizmodo website wrote that its month-long investigation “has uncovered compelling and perplexing new evidence in the search for Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin”.
