Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has publicly identified himself as bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
Ending years of speculation, Wright stepped into the spotlight following a joint investigation by the BBC, The Economist, and GQ.
The news comes six months after Wired and Gizmodo identified Wright as the creator of bitcoin. They amassed a trove of leaked emails and documents, financial records, and since-deleted blog posts painting a far more complete picture than 2014's Newsweek report, which identified California engineer Satoshi "Dorian" Nakamoto as the founder of bitcoin.
Nakamoto denied the report and threatened to sue, but Wright is now taking ownership of the virtual currency. "I was the main part of it, but other people helped me," Wright said, pointing to cryptographer Hal Finney, one of the engineers who helped turn Wright's idea into the bitcoin protocol, BBC said.
"Since those early days, after distancing myself from the public persona that was Satoshi, I have poured every measure of myself into research. I have been silent, but I have not been absent," Wright wrote in his own blog post. "Satoshi is dead. But this is only the beginning."
BBC story on Craig Wright is HERE
Ending years of speculation, Wright stepped into the spotlight following a joint investigation by the BBC, The Economist, and GQ.
The news comes six months after Wired and Gizmodo identified Wright as the creator of bitcoin. They amassed a trove of leaked emails and documents, financial records, and since-deleted blog posts painting a far more complete picture than 2014's Newsweek report, which identified California engineer Satoshi "Dorian" Nakamoto as the founder of bitcoin.
Nakamoto denied the report and threatened to sue, but Wright is now taking ownership of the virtual currency. "I was the main part of it, but other people helped me," Wright said, pointing to cryptographer Hal Finney, one of the engineers who helped turn Wright's idea into the bitcoin protocol, BBC said.
"Since those early days, after distancing myself from the public persona that was Satoshi, I have poured every measure of myself into research. I have been silent, but I have not been absent," Wright wrote in his own blog post. "Satoshi is dead. But this is only the beginning."
BBC story on Craig Wright is HERE
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