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Did Bitcoin Claimant Craig Wright Try to Kill Himself? Court Docs Reveal

Court documents reveal the self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin, Craig Wright, may have subjected himself to a suicide attempt in May 2016. That’s according to the deposition of Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen, who recounted the story during the ongoing trial between Craig Wright and the estate of Dave Kleiman. Context: Craig Wright’s Failed Attempt to Move...
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Adam Back: Bitcoin Price Could Skyrocket To $300,000 By 2025

Co-Founder and CEO of Blockstream Adam Back believes that Bitcoin could reach $300,000 in five years due to the current economic situation worldwide. In an interview, he also refuted the recent claims that he is the mysterious person behind BTC – Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin To $300,000 By 2025? In his recent interview with Bloomberg, the...
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Satoshi Nakamoto Probably Did Not Send 50 Bitcoins Today, But Maybe Craig Wright Did?

The recently moved 50 bitcoins, which were mined in February 2009, rattled the cryptocurrency community as many members are arguing if Satoshi Nakamoto himself transferred the coins. While these rumors are speculative at best, the address that sent the bitcoins can actually be located in a court document from the notorious Kleiman vs. Craig Wright...
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50 Bitcoins Worth $500K That Were Mined In February 2009 Mysteriously Moved Today

An interesting Bitcoin transaction surfaced today, bringing back memories from 11 years ago in the distant 2009. 50 BTC mined back then were just transferred to another address. Bitcoin Mined in 2009 Just Transferred Data from Blockchair reveals that 50 bitcoins mined in 2009 were just transferred to an unknown address. The transaction took place...
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Bitcoin Claimant Craig Wright Warns Opponents: The Axe Is In My Hand, And About To Fall Hard

The self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Wright, took the opportunity to publish a blog post on May 11, the day of the third Bitcoin halving, to warn his opponents in the Bitcoin space and beyond that, the axe is now in his hand – and it’s about to fall hard. The Axe Swings for Thee That’s...
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How Stablecoins are Harmful to the Price of Bitcoin (BTC)

In brief: Stablecoin market capitalization has reached a whopping $8 Billion.  This value stored in stablecoins has zapped away some market capitalization from Bitcoin (BTC).  With central banks minting fiat, stablecoins are backed by currencies prone to inflation. An ideal future is where all trading is denominated in Satoshis. Recent news has highlighted that the...
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Hyperbitcoinization: Visions of Bitcoin Fueling the Post Covid-19 Shadow Economy

With the recent coronavirus spread and its overall effect on the global economy, some people believe the powers that be are preparing a financial reset. During these times, a number of bitcoiners think a bitcoin-induced form of fiat currency demonetization will take place, otherwise known as ‘hyperbitcoinization.’ However, a few speculators believe digital assets in...
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4 April Fool’s 2020 Crypto Pranks You Must See

Satoshi Nakamoto, also known as Craig Wright, will appear in an “ask me anything” session! At the same time, there’s a new token in front of Bitcoin on CoinMarketCap. And all of this comes today, April 1st! Let’s take a look at some of the best April 1st (International Fool’s Day) jokes in the cryptocurrency...
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The CIA Secretly Owned Crypto AG, Did They Secretly Create Bitcoin? (Opinion)

“It was the intelligence coup of the century.” That’s the assessment of the CIA in a classified report obtained earlier this month by an investigation of the Washington Post. The Post made stunning revelations in a report headlined, “How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades.” Crypto AG was...
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Bitcoin SV’s Craig Wright Bites Back: “I Gave Kleiman Lawyers Nothing”

Bitcoin SV creator Craig Wright speaks to CCN about a document cache he submitted to courts on Tuesday. | Image: YouTube Bitcoin SV creator says Kleiman estate will find nothing in the 16,000-plus document cache he submitted to courts on Jan. 14. Court filing confirms that no new information came to light regarding a bonded...
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A Deep Dive Into Satoshi’s 11-Year Old Bitcoin Genesis Block

11 years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto launched the Bitcoin network at approximately 18:15:05 UTC and the world hasn’t been the same since. The Bitcoin blockchain came to life on January 3, 2009, and so far, more than 600,000 blocks have been mined into existence. Nakamoto’s genesis block is special and the hardcoded block has a...
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Why Nick Szabo Probably Isn’t Satoshi

Search online for ‘possible creators of Bitcoin’ and Bit Gold creator Nick Szabo will always appear near the top of the list. His long history in the cypherpunk space, his writings on money, digital cash, and smart contracts, and some facts about his past have often been used to create a compelling picture that he...
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These Are the Bitcoin Stories You Loved in 2019

2019 was a crazy year for cryptocurrency enthusiasts and a number of interesting events happened throughout the last 12 months. It’s hard to keep track of the day-to-day activities taking place within the cryptosphere and there may be a few incidents some of our readers missed. At news.Bitcoin.com we took the opportunity to scan our...
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Alleged $8B BTC Tulip Trust Expires With Tales of Bonded Couriers

Five years ago, the crypto community became aware of an alleged contract called the Tulip Trust. The supposed contract emerged when a few tech-based news outlets published stories on two former business partners Craig Wright and David Kleiman. According to the Tulip Trust contract story, Wright and Kleiman were ostensibly part of the group that...
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Bitcoin Gained 8.9 Million Percent Over the Last Decade

2020 is fast approaching and the last decade will be behind us. Throughout the last ten years, the biggest unicorn firms were born like Uber and Airbnb. However, even though Bitcoin isn’t a company, the best investment of the decade belongs to the decentralized cryptocurrency Satoshi created. In fact, Bank of America’s recent securities report...
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The Many Facts Pointing to Ian Grigg Being Satoshi

Financial cryptographer. Cypherpunk. Inventor of Ricardian contracts and early utilizer of triple-entry accounting systems, which would later be exemplified in Bitcoin. Ian Grigg may have claimed that Satoshi was a team effort and is now dead, only living on in bitcoiners everywhere, but some seem to think it’s him. In this installment of “the many...
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Craig Wright Unveils the Origin Behind ‘His’ Satoshi Nakamoto Pseudonym

Serial forger, fantasist, and the world’s most famous Faketoshi, Craig Wright, has been at it again. This time ‘proving’ that he genuinely is Satoshi Nakamoto, by sharing a timestamped document, revealing the pseudonym’s origins… Or at least holding up a blurry printout with some writing on it, during a Skype interview with a sympathetic journalist. Rather than,...
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Bitcoin History Part 21: Miners Pour One out for Satoshi

There are a few ways of looking at bitcoin mining. As an ostensibly selfish enterprise, wherein miners are seeking to extract precious coins for profit. And as a community of individuals who envisage a better way of generating, handling and using money, and are motivated to secure the Bitcoin network. The truth is probably somewhere...
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23 Days Until a Bonded Courier Supposedly Delivers Keys to $8 Billion in BTC

In 23 days, the infamous self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright will allegedly receive 1,100,111 BTC from a trust purportedly held in Seychelles. In fact, many Wright supporters and BSV proponents wholeheartedly believe Wright will “gain complete ownership of the trust,” and to a few of these individuals, the funds could be used to bring the...
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A List of Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventors and Satoshi Clues Debunked in 2019

Since the inception of Bitcoin, a variety of unique individuals have come forward saying they invented blockchain technology. In 2019, a few more self-proclaimed Satoshis came out of the woodwork, alongside evidence pointing toward other individuals who could have used the moniker. So far, clues examined this year still haven’t revealed a smoking gun and...
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Bitcoin Creator Satoshi is ‘Already Dead’, Claims BitMEX CEO

Arthur Hayes, the CEO of BitMEX, the most widely utilized BTC margin trading platform, has opined Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of bitcoin, is likely dead. “I think they’re already dead,” said Hayes about Satoshi, adding that he does not believe the identity behind the creator of bitcoin will ever be revealed. Satoshi is said to...
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Bitcoin Rap Battle Explains It All: ‘The System Is So Broken, We Need That Crypto Token’

[embedded content] A co-founder of LinkedIn and a member of the PayPal Mafia, Reid Hoffman, released a new rap video describing a competition between central banks and cryptocurrency. His “epic rap battle” begins with presenting the U.S. Founding Father and first Secretary of the Treasury – Alexander Hamilton, and, of course – Satoshi Nakamoto (don’t...
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Bitcoin Creator Deserves Nobel Peace Prize: Morgan Creek Exec.

Bitcoin bull Anthony Pompliano wants Satoshi Nakamoto to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but other crypto fans aren’t sure that’s a good idea. | Source: Shutterstock Whoever the real Satoshi Nakamoto is, one long-time Bitcoin enthusiast thinks he, she, or they should win the Nobel Peace Prize. The recommendation came from Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano, a...
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Crypto Needs Less Government Regulation – Not More

A recent opinion article by Peter Lin, “Why Regulation Is The Best Thing For Crypto,” presents common arguments on why the state and state-affiliated institutions should administer cryptocurrency. Underlying the arguments is an assumption: the free market cannot provide necessary standards for crypto and the state must step into the void. Also read: Why the...
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Craig Wright Set to Question Verdict Against Him in $10 Billion Lawsuit

Craig Wright asked for 14-days deadline extension on the ruling judge Bruce Reinhart gave by ordering Wright to surrender more than $4 billion worth of cryptocurrency in favor of Kleiman’s estate. Right after last week, we thought (better say hoped) that “Craig Wright is (not) Satoshi Nakamoto” saga is over – he (again) proved us...
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Craig Wright to Challenge Court Ruling in $10 Billion Bitcoin Lawsuit

Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright plans to challenge judge Bruce Reinhart’s ruling that knocked down his affirmative defenses. | Source: (i) YouTube (ii) REUTERS / Dado Ruvic / Illustration / File Photo; Edited by CCN Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright plans to challenge the recent ruling against him in the $10 billion lawsuit filed by...
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Bitcoin Mathematics: Why 21 Million BTC May Have Been Chosen

Everything about Bitcoin is heavily steeped in mathematics – defined as the study of quantity, structure, space, and change. Quantity has always been of particular interest to crypto investors and traders – in increasing the quantity of one’s own holdings, and the impact the hard-capped quantity of BTC has on its long-term value.The post appeared...
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Psst, Bitcoin Fans! It Doesn’t Matter Who Satoshi Nakamoto Is

Despite the hysteria over the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, it doesn’t matter who he is because bitcoin transcends any individual. | Source: Shutterstock There has been a barrage of media coverage in recent weeks over the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious inventor of bitcoin. The coverage hit a fever pitch this week due to...
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PrimeXBT Research: Where to Invest Safely in 2019

In July 2019, the United States Fed cut rates by 25 basis points, causing a massive sell-off across most assets and further fueling global economic concerns surrounding a growing trade war between the United States and China. The constant back-and-forth flip-flopping between the two country’s leaders is creating much uncertainty and fear in global markets,...
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Craig Wright: Court Ruling Proves I’m Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto

Craig Wright says the judge’s recent ruling in the $10 billion bitcoin lawsuit brought by the estate of Dave Kleiman proves he’s Satoshi Nakamoto. | Source: YouTube/CoinGeek (i), Shutterstock (ii). Image Edited by CCN. Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright remains unfazed after Judge Bruce Reinhart ruled against him in the $10 billion lawsuit brought by...
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