Craig Wright’s claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto come under fire
The onus is now squarely on Mr Wright to provide better evidence
HAS another Satoshi bitten the dust? Only 90 minutes after Craig Wright, an Australian businessman and computer scientist, had posted online what he claimed to be proof that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of bitcoin, a cryptocurrency, it was debunked as fake on Reddit, a website. Instead of providing a digital signature, which would show that he is indeed Mr Nakamoto (because only he could have the cryptographic key to generate it), he posted a string of numbers that is publicly available and can be copied and pasted by anybody who knows where to look.
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