Craig Wright, the man who claims to be the original creator of Bitcoin, is using an unfavorable court ruling to play mind games with bitcoin investors.The Australian computer scientist has to pay $5 billion in bitcoins to Ira Kleiman who earlier accused Wright of stealing the cryptocurrencies from his deceased brother, Dave Kleiman. Judge Bruce...Read More
Unsuccessful serial-forger and law-court regular, Craig Wright, just won’t give up the ghost of being Satoshi Nakamoto. Ordered by a judge to hand over half of his bitcoin holdings and intellectual property to the estate of Dave Kleiman, he concurred that he now “has no choice” but to do this. However, he was quick to warn of...Read More
On August 26, the self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor, Craig Wright, was ordered by Southern District Court of Florida to distribute half of his BTC holdings and intellectual property assets from prior to 2014. According to the Kleiman estate attorney Vel Freedman, the family has waited a long time for the ruling and they believe things are...Read More
Bitcoin SV’s Craig Wright hasn’t been one to stay away from the spotlight for long. nChain’s Chief Scientist in in the limelight again after the latest ruling in the case between the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto and David Kleiman broke the cryptoverse. In the aforementioned case, it was ruled that Craig Wright must forfeit half of...Read More
Self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Wright suffered a massive blow today when a judge reportedly ordered him to turn over 50% of the bitcoin he mined with his former business associate, deceased computer genius Dave Kleiman. Florida federal judge Bruce Reinhart also allegedly ordered Wright to give (to Kleiman’s estate) 50% of any intellectual property he...Read More
Craig Wright uploaded the Bitcoin white paper to SSRN, an academic journal database, to cement his claim to the title of Satoshi Nakamoto. | Source: YouTube By CCN Markets: Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright took another step to cement his claim to the title of Satoshi Nakamoto. Today (Aug. 22), Wright uploaded the Bitcoin white...Read More
You couldn’t make it up… except of course, that someone did. Following the interesting first part of the latest self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto ‘reveal’, part two gave us an actual name. Unfortunately it gave us little in the way of compelling evidence to convince us that this was the name of the man who created Bitcoin. It all came...Read More
There is an interesting claim made by Mr. Caan concerning the status of Satoshi Nakamoto’s 980,000 Bitcoin fortune. According to Mr. Caan, his private keys were lost when he handed his laptop into an electronics shop for repairs. When the laptop came back, all of Satoshi’s BTC were gone. Oh gosh. As soon as we...Read More
In part two of his ‘Satoshi reveal’, self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Bilal Khalid unveils where all his bitcoins are and much, much more. | Source: (i) Satoshinrh.com (ii) Shutterstock; Edited by CCN By CCN Markets: The second part of the Satoshi reveal by the (new) self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin proved to be even more outrageous than the...Read More
Self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright was exposed again this week – this time by Microsoft Office. The comedy of errors continues… | Source: YouTube (i), Shutterstock (ii). Image Edited by CCN. By CCN Markets: Self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright popped up to remind everyone of his existence this week. While yet another ‘Faketoshi’ showed up...Read More
Anonymity and privacy are extremely important in the crypto industry. The original crypto that the entire industry is based on was created by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, and to this day no identifying details are truly known about the person who designed Bitcoin.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
The origin story of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, has seen outright lies, conjecture, and its fair share of ‘reveals’. By now, for many, it has become irrelevant, and any new ‘revelation’ gains a healthy dose of cynicism. But here we are again, with a promise of an unveiling in little under 36 hours. Could it be...Read More
Shaikho, who is a new “real” Satoshi Nakamoto, says his idea was a “people’s bank with no boundaries, no nationalities, and no discrimination.” When publishing some text online, some media have the habit/rule to write approximately how long the read is – with the reason we should say. Let me tell you this, reading the...Read More
The “big reveal” by the latest self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto was an epic failure that overpromised and underdelivered. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: The latest self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto overpromised and underdelivered in Part 1 of his “big reveal” — probably to the surprise of no one in crypto. In a meandering blog post, the self-proclaimed...Read More
The Bitcoin community has a one-word response to the claim that Satoshi Nakamoto will reveal his true identity this week: “bullsh*t!” | Source: Shutterstock. Image Edited by CCN. By CCN Markets: The handful of Bitcoin fans who are still begging for the “real” Satoshi Nakamoto to please stand up may get their wish as early...Read More
In addition to his real-life identity, Satoshi Nakamoto will use “My Reveal” to divulge such facts as his country of origin, education, professional background, and why he has yet to move any of his 980,000 Bitcoins. Believe it or not, there’s a new Satoshi in town. No, no, you’ve read it right. It seems Craig...Read More
On Friday, a variety of paid press releases were published stemming from a company called Satoshi Nakamoto Renaissance Holdings, a firm that claims a big “reveal” is coming on Sunday, August 18. According to the announcement, Satoshi Nakamoto will divulge his “real-life identity” alongside his “country of origin, education, professional background, and why he has...Read More
Move over, Craig Wright! The “real” Satoshi Nakamoto vows to reveal himself this week and claims he’s hodling 980,000 bitcoin. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: Move over, Craig Wright! The “real” Satoshi Nakamoto vows to reveal himself as the true inventor of bitcoin over the next few days. What’s more, the “real” Nakamoto claims...Read More
