Who really Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of bitcoin known only as this pseudonym? Two US media say, Tuesday, December 8, having discovered the person behind the pseudonym. A question that torments for years dozens of journalists and aficionados of electronic money throughout the world.
Wired specialized site got the ball rolling by posting a survey that points to an Australian engineer 44, Craig Steven Wright. Two hours later, another specialized site Gizmodo, also put online a very long article, which leads to the same conclusion: Mr. Wright, Australian academic and entrepreneur, is minimum involved with closely in creating this anonymous electronic money.
Emails and blog posts
Both sites are based on a set of documents, submitted as belonging to Mr. Wright, that were sent to them by an anonymous source close to saying Craig Steven Wright. In an email dated January 8, 2014 for colleagues, the Australian satoshi@visitomail.com uses the address, an account which had previously been used, according to Gizmodo, Satoshi Nakamoto first to communicate with users and developers of Bitcoin. Another e-mail, remained in draft status, is also signed Satoshi Nakamoto
Wired reveals the transcript of a meeting with his lawyers, during which Mr. Wright would have started. ” I did my best to hide the fact that I manage bitcoin since 2009. But with all this I think half of the world will eventually know . ” Wired relies on another email sent to a colleague on March 6, 2014. On that day, magazine Newsweek published an article claiming, wrongly, have identified as Satoshi Nakamoto engineer California known as Dorian. “ I do not come of fucking USA! I do not call me Dorian! “( sic ), it said in the email quoted by Wired. “ I have not been found and I do not want to be. “
The magazine also relies on tickets issued by Mr Wright on his blog, before the launch of bitcoin, where he repeatedly mentions the creation of a virtual currency. In a note published January 10, 2009, and since cleared, we read: “ the beta of bitcoin will be online tomorrow ”
Finally, both media attention. an agreement between Craig Steven Wright and David Kleiman, a relative who died in 2013 and believed to be too closely involved in the creation of bitcoin. In it, David Kleiman agrees to take control of a fund called “Tulip Trust” with 1.1 million bitcoins – equivalent to that fortune attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto. “ No other Nakamoto that is known to have amassed such a hoard of bitcoins, and only Nakamoto may have generated as many bitcoins so early in its history ,” says Wired.
Raids
The profile of the engineer also feeds the idea that it would be the inventor of Bitcoin. Creator of several companies, some related to bitcoin, it would have at least $ 60 million in that currency, according to Wired. Described as a brilliant programmer, former member of the mailing list Cypherpunks dedicated to encryption, a fan of Japanese culture, and regular problems with the tax authorities, it would also be built, with his company Tulip Trading, two supercomputers among the most powerful in the world , relating to its projects in bitcoin.
Just hours after the publication of these articles, the Australian police conducted a search of a house owned by Craig Steven Wright, a suburb of Sydney. But the police said in a statement that “ this issue has nothing to do with recent articles related to virtual currency Bitcoin ” adding that it “ attending Australian tax . ” According to a Reuters journalist, police reportedly raided as Steven Craig Wright offices. Its Twitter account has been closed following the publication of two articles
This is not the first time that the media say -. To falsely present – have discovered the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. Besides Newsweek , publications such as the New York Times New Yorker and Fast Company also conducted investigations resulting in others. Therefore Gizmodo and Wired remain cautious, admitting that the papers might be forgeries. “ Despite this massive treasure of evidence, we still can not say with absolute certainty that the mystery is lifted ,” says Wired. “ All this could be an elaborate hoax – perhaps even by Wright himself ,” says the magazine, which also asks if Wright could be at the origin of the leaks in order to ” unfold slowly as the creator of bitcoin “
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