In a lengthy exposé, Wired lays out its case that Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto is actually Australian businessman Craig Wright.
As evidence, Wired cites leaked communications and posts on Wright's blog from 2008 and 2009 establishing a connection between him and the launch of Bitcoin.
Wright is also known to have amassed a significant Bitcoin fortune early on.
Wired tried to contact Wright and got some perplexing responses, and they admit that it could all be a (long and extremely elaborate) hoax.
But hours after publishing, Gizmodo followed up with the results of their own investigation, which came to the conclusion that Satoshi is a pseudonym for two men:
Wright and Dave Kleiman, a computer forensics expert who died in 2013.
After questioning (read: harassment) from both publications, Wright seems to have withdrawn from public comment.
Regardless, both articles are quite detailed, and it will be interesting to see if the leaked documents turn out to be accurate.
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