Craig Wright, who said he was the creator of bitcoin, renounces prove – Les Echos

Craig Wright, inventor of Bitcoin or impostor? Speculation leave more beautiful with the message posted by the Australian on his blog. While he affirmed Monday that the creator of the digital currency, he said Thursday that he will not bring additional evidence. “I thought I could leave behind the years of anonymity and hiding,” he wrote. “But, as the events of the week took place and while I was preparing to publish the evidence of access to the very first key, I collapsed. I do not have the courage” added the Australian entrepreneur of 45 years in this message that replaces all data that was previously available on his blog. Craig Wright regrets that “his skills and personality are attacked” after “it has been proved that these allegations were false, others have emerged.” “I know now that I’m not strong enough” to face all this, he said.

A spokesman for the PR company Outside Organization who worked with him, confirmed to AFP that the message was “authentic” without further comment.

the convinced and skeptical

Monday to prove to journalists from the BBC, the Economist and GQ magazine that he was the creator of this digital currency hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, he had digitally signed messages using cryptographic keys created during the early days of the development of this digital currency.

Jon Matonis, an economist and a founder-directors of the Bitcoin foundation and Gavin Andresen, chief scientist of the Bitcoin foundation were convinced.

the Economist showed meanwhile more skeptical about the ‘repudiation of the evidence provided by the contractor, saying “important issues remained.”

In the hours that followed the announcement, doubts have won the mid-crypto-currencies which also called for more evidence while Craig Wright promised to provide “extraordinary evidence” to confirm his statements.

in his message released Thursday, he says Jon Matonis and Gavin Andresen “were not mistaken.” “But I know that now the world will never believe this,” , he said.

According to the BBC, there are currently nearly 15.5 million of bitcoins in circulation, knowing that bitcoin is worth about 449 dollars (390 euros)

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