BBC News said Monday that Craig Wright told the media outlet he is the man previously known by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
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In an interview with the BBC, Wright claims, “I was the main part of it, but other people helped me”, including the now deceased Hal Finney, a world renown cryptographer who received the first Bitcoin transaction of 10 bitcoins from Mr. Wright.
Craig Steven Wright, an Australian technology entrepreneur, has made a big revelation claiming self to be the creator of popular encrypted digital currency bitcoin.
“He signed in my presence using the private key from block one, the very first mined Bitcoin block, on a computer that I am convinced had not been tampered with”, he said. However, Gavin Andersen, Bitcoin Foundation chief scientist said he is “convinced beyond reasonable doubt”. Sirer and others said Wright’s blog post mainly amounts to a little sleight of hand using publicly available data.
In December, police investigated Wright’s Sydney home and office after Wired magazine named him as the probable suspect of bitcoin and having hundreds of millions of dollars worth cryptocurrency.
Not long after one of the Internet’s great mysteries had apparently been solved, it quickly began to be unsolved. He also published a blog post to support his claim.
Brito says, “When you look at Craig Wright a little more, you learn, for example, that he’s called “Doctor Craig Wright” but there’s no evidence that he has any doctorates”.
Bitcoins were introduced in 2009 by a person identifying himself as Satoshi Nakamoto, and quickly became an acceptable form of global currency despite not being backed by a government or central bank.
“Some people will believe, some people won’t and to tell you the truth I don’t really care”, Wright said in a video clip.
During the meeting with the BBC, Wright did something that no one else but a person involved in the creation of Bitcoin could do.
Wright told The Economist he would exchange his Bitcoin in small chunks to avoid sinking the price. Craig Wright wrote a blog and announced that he is the founder of bitcoin.
Others were more willing to believe that the elusive Bitcoin creator had finally been revealed. The reports offered detailed circumstantial, but no hard proof, and hedged their conclusions accordingly.
Wright says he has stepped forward after speculation that he might indeed be “Nakamoto” led to journalists going after people that he knew in an attempt to get more information.
Wright told the BBC he had decided to make his identity known to stop the spread of “misinformation” about Bitcoin.
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“Some would argue that we are now living in a post-Satoshi world”, he said. “I would wait until we’ve actually seen absolute proof that it’s the case”, he said.
