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Craig Wright Claims He's Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Can He Prove It in Court?
Satoshi Nakamoto is the founding father of cryptocurrency -- and a mystery. In October 2008, Nakamoto gave Bitcoin to the world. Then they disappeared. To this day, nobody knows who Nakamoto is. Amongst the speculation, one man stepped forward: Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who has,...
Wired: On February 5, a trial will begin in the UK High Court, the purpose of which is to challenge Wright's claim to Satoshi-hood. It is seeking a declaration that Wright does not own the copyright to the white paper that first proposed Bitcoin and did not author the original code, and an injunction preventing him from saying otherwise. The original story, based on a trove of leaked documents, proposed that Wright had "either invented Bitcoin or is a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did."
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