Wright was named by Gizmodo as the real Satoshi Nakamoto, a pseudonym used by the creator of bitcoin, as a result of being sent emails and document files accessed by a hacker showing Wright making repeated claims to being Nakamoto. Officers wearing white gloves could be seen from the street searching the cupboards and surfaces in the garage and were said to be “clearing the house”.
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Andrew Sommer, who is a partner at law firm Clayton Utz, replies a day later to Dr Wright and says that while he’s happy to write to Senator Sinodinos, it’s probably best to keep quote “Nakamoto-san’s involvement in the background for now”.
The big thing about Wright, if he is Satoshi Nakamoto, is that he holds a massive stash of bitcoins, according to Wired and Gizmodo, worth nine-figure currency sums of the more familiar hard kind.
Wired magazine cited leaked emails, documents and archives from the Dark Web as it named Mr Wright as the probable creator of the currency. One, Wright really did invent bitcoin and is Satoshi Nakamoto or alternatively – “he’s a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did”, the publication notes, somewhat as a disclaimer to the groundbreaking story.
“Due to confidentially provisions in the tax administration act, the ATO can not comment on any individual’s or entity’s’ tax affairs”, a spokesperson for the Australian Tax Office told Xinhua. The documents also seem to indicate that Dave Kleiman, an American computer forensics expert who died in 2013, was involved as well.
Stay tuned to LeapRate regarding this important pivot point in the short history of bitcoin or will this turn out just like the Newsweek story and the creator will still remain unknown? Following news that the currency had been ruled tax-free in Europe by the European Court of Justice, UCLA professor of finance Bhagwan Chowdhry put forward Satoshi Nakamoto for a Nobel Prize nomination. Last year, Wright had also made a public announcement of his plans to start “world’s first bitcoin bank”.
Wright is the chief executive of Australian-registered DeMorgan Ltd, which he describes on his Linkedin page as “a pre-IPO Australian listed company focused on alternative currency”. Gizmodo interviewed Wright’s business partners in Sydney as well as Kleimam’s closest associates in Florida, US.
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The latest reports are by no means the media’s first attempts to reveal the identity of bitcoin’s creator: in May, the New York Times tried to unmask Nakamoto, previous year Newsweek published their investigation.
