Who is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto? Does it even matter? http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/09/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-craig-wrightCraig Wright, an Australian academic, might be the secret creator of cryptocurrency bitcoin, unmasked by an anonymous hacker after seven years in the shadows. Or he might be the target – maybe even the perpetrator – of one of the most meticulous hoaxes of the internet age.
And yet, amazingly, whichever is true, the result is likely to have only the smallest effect on the future of bitcoin. The currency is now bigger than its creator, who hasn’t been openly involved since 2010, and decentralised governance is built into the very core of bitcoin, often to a fault.
But that hasn’t stopped the curiosity over who created the currency behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, a person (or group) with an estimated fortune of around £250m, from raging for years. If it is Wright, or Wright working in tandem with his late friend Dave Kleiman, then that mystery would be solved.
But almost as many questions would remain. Why amass a fortune which peaked at almost £750m and not touch a penny, as evidenced by the public record of transactions recorded on the currency’s ledger, the “blockchain”? Why drop off the face of the Earth in 2010 (save for one public statement in 2014 to deny being Dorian Nakamoto, named as the bitcoin founder by Newsweek)?
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