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| Is Craig Steven Wright really 'Satoshi Nakamoto': the founder of Bitcoin? |
Over the years, Satoshi Nakamoto, the enigmatic person or group who released the first paper on The Cryptography Mailing list describing what was now known as Bitcoin.
According to Wikipedia:
Many articles have been written about the possible identity or identities of Nakamoto. Some speculations about his identity include:
- In a 2011 article in The New Yorker, Joshua Davis claimed to have narrowed down the identity of Nakamoto to a number of possible individuals, including the Finnish economic sociologist Dr. Vili Lehdonvirta and Irish student Michael Clear, then a graduate student in cryptography at Trinity College Dublin.[15] Clear strongly denied he was Nakamoto,[16] as did Lehdonvirta.[17]
- In October 2011, writing for Fast Company, investigative journalist Adam Penenberg cited circumstantial evidence suggesting Neal King, Vladimir Oksman and Charles Bry could be Nakamoto.[18] They jointly filed a patent application that contained the phrase "computationally impractical to reverse" in 2008, which was also used in the bitcoin white paper by Nakamoto.[19] The domain name bitcoin.org was registered three days after the patent was filed. All three men denied being Nakamoto when contacted by Penenberg.[18]
- In May 2013, Ted Nelson speculated that Nakamoto is really Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki.[20] Later, an article was published in The Age newspaper that claimed that Mochizuki denied these speculations, but without attributing a source for the denial.[21]
- A 2013 article,[22] in Vice listed Gavin Andresen, Jed McCaleb, or a government agency as possible candidates to be Nakamoto. Dustin D. Trammell, a Texas-based security researcher, was suggested as Nakamoto, but he publicly denied it.[23]
- In 2013, two Israeli mathematicians, Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir, published a paper claiming a link between Nakamoto and Ross William Ulbricht. The two based their suspicion on an analysis of the network of bitcoin transactions,[24] but later retracted their claim.[25]
The latest was a revelation from the W I R E D pointing to Craig Steven Wright as Satoshi Nakamoto. He was revealed by an unknown person who sent email evidences of exchanges between Craig Steven Wright and a Kleiman, a U.S. Army veteran and a reclusive computer forensics who lived in Palm Beach County, Florida. Craig Steven Wright is thought of now as Satoshi Nakamoto.
One of the email exchanges identified Craig Steven Wright as the one.
During an October 2015 panel discussion with fellow Bitcoin experts (including Nick Szabo, long suspected by many as being the real Satoshi Nakamoto), Wright is asked to introduce himself.
[I do] a whole lot of things that people don’t realize is possible yet,
he replied.
When asked by the moderator for clarification, Wright said that
I’m a bit of everything...I have a masters of law...I have a masters in statistics, a couple doctorates, I forget actually what I’ve got these days.
In a more recent article, Craig Steven Wright was accused to being a hoaxer due to some questions on his background.
So. Will the real Satoshi Nakamoto step out or is he already that?
-vmaria 1/4/2016
