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" The mystery of who is\u00A0Satashi Nakamoto, the name most\u00A0associated with the creation of\u00A0Bitcoin, may finally\u00A0be over.\u00A0Today, in a flurry of publicity, Australian academic and entrepreneur Dr. Craig\u00A0Wright claimed to be Nakamoto\u00A0in a series of interviews, talking to\u00A0\u00A0the\u00A0BBC, The\u00A0Economist, the British edition of\u00A0GQ, and posting his own elliptical (and highly technical) confession on his own blog. Wright&amp;#039;s admission essentially boils down to revealing \u00A0to the BBC and The Economist\u00A0his possession of\u00A0cryptographic keys and signatures\u00A0used by Nakamoto during the early days of Bitcoins development\u2014something that (unless Wright somehow came into possession\u00A0of the keys by other means) only\u00A0Nakamoto would have. Nakamoto was the author of\u00A0a white paper in 2008 that detailed\u00A0how Bitcoin would work, and was one of the main contributors to the currency&amp;#039;s open-source development in 2009, though he carefully kept all personally identifying information out of his communications. By 2010, he drifted away from the scene, but the intense interest in the identity of\u00A0Nakamoto remained. Amateur sleuths and professional reporters\u00A0have attempted to use a variety of means to find out who Nakamoto was.\u00A0In 2014,\u00A0Newsweek\u00A0tracked down a man simply named Dorian\u00A0Satoshi Nakamoto, and pegged him as the creator of Bitcoin,\u00A0in a story that has since been widely discredited.\u00A0In\u00A0The New Yorker, reporter Joshua Davis analyzed linguistic tics in the writings of Nakamoto, and said it was likely Nakamoto was actually\u00A0Michael Clear, a grad school\u00A0student at Dublin&amp;#039;s Trinity College.\u00A0In December 2015, both\u00A0Wired\u00A0and Gizmodo published their own independent investigations, using a series of ostensibly hacked emails that to linked the creation of\u00A0Bitcoin to\u00A0Wright. Wright framed his confession as an\u00A0attempt to quash continued scrutiny into his life. &amp;quot;I have not done this because it is what I wanted. It&amp;#039;s not because of my choice,&amp;quot; Wright told the BBC.\u00A0&amp;quot;I really do not want to be the public face of anything.\u00A0I would rather not do it.\u00A0I want to work, I want to keep doing what I want to do. I don&amp;#039;t want money. I don&amp;#039;t want fame. I don&amp;#039;t want adoration. I just want to be left alone.&amp;quot; There&amp;#039;s also the matter of Wright&amp;#039;s home being raided by the\u00A0Australian\u00A0version of the IRS shortly after\u00A0Wired and Gizmodo published their investigations in whether Wright was Satoshi Nakamoto.\u00A0&amp;quot;We have lawyers negotiating with them over how much I have to pay,&amp;quot; he said. Why all the interest? Bitcoin wasn&amp;#039;t the first cryptocurrency, but it has been, by far, the most successful and popular. There are currently an estimated 15.5 million Bitcoins in\u00A0circulation, each worth (as of this writing) about $443 apiece, or about $6.8 billion USD in total. At its height, one Bitcoin sold for\u00A0$1216.73. Nakamoto is widely believed to be holding on to about 1 million Bitcoins, meaning at one point he held nearly $1.2 billion in Bitcoin. Even at its current price, if the rumors are correct, Nakamoto\u00A0still holds nearly a half billion\u00A0USD in Bitcoin.\u00A0 Bitcoin\u00A0first gained\u00A0notoriety due to its association with &amp;quot;darknet\u00A0markets&amp;quot;\u00A0such as the Silk Road, and later because of its wild\u00A0fluctuations\u00A0in value, which led to\u00A0currency\u00A0speculators flooding the\u00A0Bitcoin market.\u00A0A Bitcoin bought in September of 2013 for $120 USD\u00A0would have been worth 1000 percent more if sold at the top of the Bitcoin bubble in January 2014.\u00A0 A series of public missteps, including the\u00A0meltdown of Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox\u00A0and one of the main (public) faces of Bitcoin deeming\u00A0it an experiment that\u00A0ended in &amp;quot;failure,&amp;quot;\u00A0have tarnished its image, but Bitcoin still does brisk business, with about $100 million of the currency changing hands every day.\u00A0 Meanwhile, while several prominent figures within the cryptocurrency scene say they now believe that Wright is Nakamoto,\u00A0there&amp;#039;s still plenty of skepticism within the Bitcoin community that Craig Wright is truly Nakamoto.\u00A0In the end, that may be one of the problems with a currency and a community that relies heavily on pseudonyms and anonymity\u2014you can say you are someone or\u00A0you can say you are\u00A0not someone, and either way, there will be a large contingent of people who simply will not believe you.\u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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