Bitcoin creator revealed to be (probably) this dude in Sydney

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Bitcoin's mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto could be Australian man Craig Steven Wright: report

The secretive creator of Bitcoin, known publicly by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, could in fact be Australian man Craig Steven Wright, according to a report from Wired.

The man isn't particularly well known even among cryptocurrency enthusiasts and ASIC records obtained by Fairfax Media show he was born in Brisbane and is 45 years old. He now lives in NSW and owns three properties one in Greenacre, in Sydney's south-west, another in Lisarow, on the NSW central coast, and a third in Byabarra, in NSW's mid north coast.

The most explicit evidence, which Wired says comes from a leaked email Dr Wright sent to an associate during a tax dispute with the Australian government, is a draft letter written to New South Wales Senator Arthur Sinodinos and signed "Satoshi Nakamoto" that was never sent.

In a leaked transcript of Dr Wright's talks with tax officials in 2014, Wired reports Dr Wright says: "I did my best to try and hide the fact that I've been running bitcoin since 2009. By the end of this I think half the world is going to bloody know."

Also of note is an old blog post of Dr Wright's published hours before the initial launch of Bitcoin in 2009 which has since been scrubbed from the internet.

"Well.. e-gold is down the toilet. Good idea, but again central authority", the blog reads. "The Beta of Bitcoin is live tomorrow. This is decentralized... We try until it works."

Another blog post includes a PGP encryption key which Dr Wright was asking those looking to contact him to use which is the same as one linked to the email address [email protected], very similar to the [email protected] address known to be used by Nakamoto. These two emails are further tied together in that they both appear in the PGP's update logs on the same day.

Full article has more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/te...aig-steven-wright-report-20151208-glixin.html
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Arstechnica coverage:

Both Wired and Gizmodo have claimed to have discovered the identity of "Satoshi Nakamoto," the anonymous creator of Bitcoin. Unlike previous attempts at identifying the Bitcoin creator, the story is backed by a mound of convincing evidence, which points to an Australian man named Craig Steven Wright.

"We still can't say with absolute certainty that the mystery is solved," write Andy Greenberg and Gwern Branwen in their report for Wired. "But two possibilities outweigh all others: Either Wright invented bitcoin, or he's a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did."

The report is based on a trove of documents leaked to both Branwen and Gizmodo last month, as well as some publicly available evidence. The Gizmodo report, published about an hour after Wired's, includes copies of some of the documents. They include:

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...o-have-possibly-found-the-creator-of-bitcoin/
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The first article reckons :-

...whoever is behind Nakamoto has reportedly amassed more than a billion dollars worth of the cryptocurrency....
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But then adds in some LOLs with this :-

...giving him the power to make real economic waves.
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Since when does a billion dollars make waves? In todays world of money printing a billion dollars doesn't really do much.....
 
Of course it is all just a massive co-incidence and the raid has nothing to do with bitcoin :rolleyes:
 
BuggedOut said:
Of course it is all just a massive co-incidence and the raid has nothing to do with bitcoin :rolleyes:
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Of course. Every ATO investigation required a team of federal police to conduct a raid and clean out the house. Reminds me of the over-the-top raid on Kim Dotcom's house.
 
dozerz said:
House said:
Why did it ever matter who invented BTC?
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satoshi wields much power, along with many coins.
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And he wielded it all along without anybody knowing his real identity. Now the asshats at Wired have gone and turtled up his life :/
 
House said:
dozerz said:
House said:
Why did it ever matter who invented BTC?
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satoshi wields much power, along with many coins.
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And he wielded it all along without anybody knowing his real identity. Now the asshats at Wired have gone and turtled up his life :/
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The guy is a freaking mathematics/cryptography genius. Any government will do anything to have his mind at its disposal.
 
Porcello said:
The guy is a freaking mathematics/cryptography genius. Any government will do anything to have his mind at its disposal.
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Or make him disappear...
 
He's created a currency.
Government prerogative.
Along with robbery and murder.
 
House said:
dozerz said:
House said:
Why did it ever matter who invented BTC?
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satoshi wields much power, along with many coins.
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And he wielded it all along without anybody knowing his real identity. Now the asshats at Wired have gone and turtled up his life :/
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this guy has left too many clues to want to be found, smells like a rat.
 
I remember the biggest concern about satoshi nakamoto revealing him/herself was that it was highly likely some dodgy government or an organized crime group would bag him and beat him with a rubber pipe until he handed over the passwords for the tulip trust ($400m of bitcoins).
 
johnw said:
I remember the biggest concern about satoshi nakamoto revealing him/herself was that it was highly likely some dodgy government or an organized crime group would bag him and beat him with a rubber pipe until he handed over the passwords for the tulip trust ($400m of bitcoins).
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To do what with it, sell them off like the FBI did with the Dread Pirate Roberts coins, or try and suppress the price with them while selling into the difficulty increases and block reward halving? Not many people seem to comprehend the mathematics behind the structure of the coins so fail to understand how they trade against fiat. To put it simply they must either go to zero or go to infinity over a long enough time frame and this is very concerning to those in power.

My guess is there will be some huge event or a false flag that will be claimed to be funded by crypto coins. Governments will unite and try to flat out ban all digital currencies, ISP's will be required to report any connections to the Government who will in turn issue large fines or imprisonment at that point. This will push the whole lot underground so who knows at that point if miners will even keep the coins going.

I would like to think that Bitcoin is the solution free markets are searching for however I think it will be a very rocky road ahead.
 
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