Still in the Wind: Satoshi Nakamoto

[kreslik.news]

Back in December, the folks at WIRED released an extensive analysis of Craig Wright, supporting the idea that he may well be mystery man Satoshi Nakamoto. A week later, they issued a single follow-up sentence:

New clues following the publication of this story have shown inconsistencies in Wright’s academic and supercomputing claims that may point to the second, strange possibility we noted: an elaborate, long-planned hoax.

Speculation has heated up over the past couple weeks after Wright took his claim public: he is the founder of Bitcoin. Gavin Andresen and Jon Matonis, the chief scientist and founding director, respectively, at the Bitcoin ... (read more)