On Tuesday,Gizmodo and Wired published the results of separate but parallel investigations into documents that suggested a unusual candidate for the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. In emails and documents shared with both publications (by an individual who identified themselves to Gizmodo reporters as a hacker) Dr. Craig Wright, and an Australian academic and serial entrepreneur,appears to take credit for Bitcoin’s creation in several instances dating back to months before the cryptocurrency was first introduced to the world in 2008. “I need your benefit and I need a version of me to make this work that is better than me,” Wright appears to write in a 2008 email to Dave Kleiman, and an American computer forensics expert who died in 2013. That email is one of several documents in the trove linking both Wright and Kleiman to Bitcoin’s creation.
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Source: gawker.com