Over a dozen police officers entered the home of Craig Steven Wright who Wired magazine said was the real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the figure who released the first bitcoin code back in 2009.
Now, there appears to be another lead on the anonymous founder.
The raids by police in Australia came a few hours after a website online published articles that said investigations had shown that Wright, an academic and entrepreneur was mostly like the secretive creator of bitcoin.
Police have raided the Sydney home of a man named as the likely creator of cryptocurrency bitcoin.
“Either Wright invented Bitcoin, or he’s a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did”, saidWired, which based its conclusions on a series of leaked emails and archived web documents.
“The Australian Federal Police can confirm it has conducted search warrants to assist the Australian Taxation Office at a residence in Gordon, Sydney”, police said in a statement, without confirming it belonged to Mr Wright.
“Despite a massive trove of evidence, we still can’t say with absolute certainty that the mystery is solved”.
On Gizmodo, reporters Sam Biddle and Andy Cush write of their inquiry into Wright and Dave Kleiman, a computer forensics expert who died in 2013, that they “obtained confirmation from on-the-record sources that Wright claimed on at least two occasions that he and Kleiman were both involved in the creation of Bitcoin”.
It was reported by Newsweek in March last year that Satoshi Nakamoto is not a pseudonym and the man behind Bitcoin is a 64-year-old Japanese American.
Nakamoto vehemently denied any involvement with Bitcoin in a letter provided by Nakamoto’s lawyer Ethan Kirschner to Felix Salmon, then a financial blogger at Reuters.
Originally appeared at: http://unionoracle.com/11997-police-raid-sydney-house-after-mystery-of-bitcoin-creator/
