Dr. Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, inventor and academic, publicly identified himself on Monday as Bitcoin’s creator on his personal blog and to the BBC, The Economist and GQ – and he provided considerable evidence to support his claim. At the meeting with BBC, Wright used cryptographic keys that are make up the core foundation of Bitcoin; they are known to have been created by Nakamoto.
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That block is significant because it contained a transaction transferring bitcoins from Satoshi to the late Hal Finney, a cryptographer and early bitcoin enthusiast.
Dr Wright said he made a decision to reveal himself as the Bitcoin creator to stop the spread of “misinformation” about the cryptocurrency and its digital infrastructure Blockchain.
In 2011, The New Yorker focused speculation on cryptography researcher Michael Clear, who denied it. Newsweek fingered Japanese-American engineer Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto more than a year ago, though this Nakamoto quickly insisted in an AP interview that it was a clumsy case of mistaken identity.
Prominent members of the Bitcoin community and its core development team say they have confirmed his claims.
Until know the founder went by the pseudo title of “Satoshi Nakamoto” but now we find the claims Craig Wright is responsible, have now been corroborated by Bitcoin Foundation Founding Director Jon Matonis in a post titled ‘How I met Satoshi’.
If it’s true, the world has just seen the overnight reveal of a man whose holdings are in a format none of us recognise as money – yet his one million Bitcoin put him, at current prices, at a net worth of about $450 million.
Now Wright has claimed he is the Satoshi Nakamoto.
Wright told BBC he planned to release information that would allow others to cryptographically verify that he is Nakamoto. Multiple investigations since then have come to different conclusions about who might actually have started the currency. I want to work, I want to keep doing what I want to do. I don’t want fame. He adds that the tax dispute in Australia stems from a basic misunderstanding about how bitcoin works.
Wright says in his blogpost, reported by The Economist, that he is looking take the negative myths attached to bitcoin and the blockchain away. However, skepticism remains over whether Wright is telling the truth.
Wright was identified as the likely creator of Bitcoin in December 2015 by Wired and Gizmodo magazines, which cited e-mails, deleted blog posts and documents.
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After the December stories, Wright reportedly approached the author Andrew O’Hagan, to whom he also provided evidence of his involvement in bitcoin for an upcoming piece in the London Review of Books.
