On Monday, the Australian businessman Craig Wright had loudly proclaimed his paternity on Bitcoin, claiming to have intangible evidence of what he said. Four days later, nothing is less certain … “I’m sorry. I thought I could do it. I thought I could let those years of anonymity and secrecy behind me. But because of events this week and then I was ready to prove that I held the key (decryption, Ed), I broke down. I have not the courage. I can not, “wrote the Australian 45 years on Thursday in a cryptic message which replaces its entire blog.
“When the rumors started, my qualifications and my personality were attacked. (…) I know now that I’m not strong enough for it,” he writes too. “I know that the world will believe it more now. I can only say I’m sorry. And goodbye”, concluded his brief message in which he is very elusive.
“It was a mistake to claim that Craig Wright was Satoshi”
This week, the version of the one who claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, pseudonym used by Bitcoin creator P2Pfoundation on the site in February 2009, has been undermined. The token, which expressed Craig Wright in the message of his blog, would be a false according blogger Dan Kaminsky and respected security researcher, who tries to prove on its website that it is a copy.
Monday, Craig Wright revealed the only one to hold this key used to start the Bitcoin by its creator and supposedly prove his paternity. One of the developers of virtual currency, Gavin Andresen, head researcher of the Bitcoin Foundation, had even pleaded in his favor, with this evidence, earlier this week.
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US site Wired Monday, Gavin Andresen had expressed his certainty that he was indeed the mysterious creator, after a meeting between the two men on April 7 in London. This was one of the key witnesses to establish the truthfulness of the version of Craig Wright. The Australian says Gavin Andresen, had shown him while he held the cryptographic key that only allowed the designer to transform data. Alleged evidence that the Australian has also provided to the BBC and magazine GQ and The Economist.
Since then, however, Gavin Andresen made reverse. “It was a mistake to claim that Craig Wright was Satoshi”, he responded to a site dedicated to Bitcoin Wednesday.
An impostor?
The Economist who himself met Craig Wright, was on Monday expressed doubts on his claims: “Our conclusion is that Mr. Wright may well be Mr. Nakamoto, but major questions remain Because it may never be possible to establish with certainty who is the true creator of Bitcoin..”
In an article in November 2011 entitled “New evidence suggests that Craig Wright, suspected of being the creator of Bitcoin could be an impostor” Wired site had pinned the Australian. His name then circulated as one of the potential fathers of the currency. According to Wired, Craig Wright including lying about one of its degrees: the university concerned denied having given the. It would also have shown to be in possession of one of the most powerful computers in the world, but the SGI company, which built the devices, denied the report.
An identity ever made “for sure”?
Monday, Craig Wright had told the BBC making his public identity to stop the interrogations some media who had compiled a list of several potential fathers of Bitcoin, which he belonged. “There are many rumors about this and I do not want it hurts the people close to me. I do not want them to be affected by this,” asserted the Australian.
To enable it to establish with certainty the identity and authorship of currency, Bitcoin experts have mentioned the existence of other evidence that the cryptographic key, reports Wired. It would suffice that the Australian side a bank transfer, using the first Bitcoins known to belong to their creator and who have never been spent since their seven years of existence. An approach that has not done Craig Wright, who now risk hide in silence.
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