The media stalk for several years or mysterious computer scientists behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, conceived in 2009 originally bitcoin software. Citing confidential documents, the US magazine Wired and blog Gizmodo reported Wednesday that Craig Steven Wright could be one of them. “Everything points to Steven Craig Wright, a man who had never been on the list of suspects of those seeking Nakamoto,” reads Wired.
A inventor or a pathological liar?
“Despite a lot of clues, we still can not say with certainty that the mystery is lifted,” the magazine. “There are only two possibilities: either Wright invented the bitcoin, or he is a brilliant pathological liar who desperately wants to believe.” Gizmodo says Craig Wright and an American computer scientist who died in 2013, Dave Kleiman, have both been involved in the creation of bitcoin. The site based its claims on confidential documents and emails pirated he would have received and in which Mr. Wright would have repeatedly claimed to be Nakamoto. None of this information could not be verified by AFP.
A search at Craig Steven Wright?
In March 2014, the magazine Newsweek had claimed to have discovered the true identity of the creator bitcoin in the person of a quiet California retiree, Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, former engineer of Japanese origin. But sexagenarian had strongly denied at the time. For its part, the Australian police conducted a raid Wednesday in a house of Gordon, a suburb of Sydney, which belongs, according to the press, Craig Steven Wright. In a statement, the Federal Police confirmed a search of a residence Gordon as part of a survey of Australian tax services, without revealing the identity of the owner of the home.
“This case n has nothing to do with recent media reports on the bitcoin “, police said. The tax authorities have declined to comment on behalf of the secrecy of the investigation. Unlike physical currencies such as the euro or the dollar, bitcoin is not governed by any central bank or government, but by a vast community of users. The bitcoin has earned a bad reputation because of its lack of transparency, after the bankruptcy in 2014 of the platform MtGox exchanges, and its use in criminal cases. The website Silk Road, nicknamed “the drug eBay”, since closed by US authorities, used it as a bargaining chip. Instrument, according to its detractors, illegal trafficking of all because of the anonymity of payments, bitcoin is also, in its current form, vulnerable to theft or other fraudulent operations.
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