COPA v Wright: Court rules Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto
The UK High Court rules definitively that Craig Steven Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, finding that he fabricated evidence on a grand scale to support his false claim.
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The UK High Court rules definitively that Craig Steven Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, finding that he fabricated evidence on a grand scale to support his false claim.
Jameson Lopp argues Hal Finney could not have been Satoshi: on April 18, 2009, Finney was running a 10-mile race in Santa Barbara during a window of Satoshi network activity.
Satoshi Nakamoto's P2P Foundation profile shows login activity in late 2016, years after the 'I am not Dorian Nakamoto' post in 2014, sparking renewed speculation about the account's security.
Wired and Gizmodo simultaneously publish articles identifying Australian computer scientist Craig Steven Wright as the probable creator of Bitcoin, based on leaked documents and emails.
A post from Satoshi's P2P Foundation account saying 'I am not Dorian Nakamoto' in response to Newsweek's article claiming to have found Bitcoin's creator. The authenticity of this post is debated.
After years of silence, Satoshi Nakamoto briefly returns to the P2P Foundation forum to deny being Dorian Nakamoto, after Newsweek's cover story identifying a California man as Bitcoin's creator.
Newsweek publishes 'The Face Behind Bitcoin,' identifying Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a 64-year-old Japanese-American man living in Temple City, California, as Bitcoin's creator.
Wei Dai's LessWrong Q&A reflections: Satoshi did not read the b-money paper before reinventing the idea, and Dai had grown disillusioned with cryptoanarchy by the time he wrote it up.