{"id":3024,"date":"2016-05-02T07:32:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T14:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2016-05-02T07:32:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T14:32:43","slug":"bitcoin-creator-craig-wright-steps-from-the-shadows-it-was-me-i-created-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=3024","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin creator Craig Wright steps from the shadows \u2013 It was me, I created Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>The creator of Bitcoin has, for as long as I can remember, been known as a secret \u201cSatoshi Nakamoto\u201d character.\u00a0<em>Newsweek<\/em> thought it found the actual \u201cSatoshi Nakamoto\u201d two years ago, with a major cover story that turned out to be untrue.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Various news outlets, including <em>Gizmodo<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Wired,<\/em>\u00a0started tracking a man named Dr. Craig Wright last year and, now, Wright has stepped from the shadows, claiming he is indeed the person\u00a0who creatd\u00a0Bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3025\" src=\"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Dr_Craig_Wright-1.png\" alt=\"Dr_Craig_Wright-1\" width=\"429\" height=\"464\" \/><\/p>\n<article id=\"content\" class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p>Wright revealed his identity to several news outlets including\u00a0<em>BBC<\/em> and was seemingly able to confirm his identity using Bitcoin keys. \u201cMr. Wright digitally signed messages using cryptographic keys created during the early days of Bitcoin\u2019s development,\u201d\u00a0<em>BBC\u00a0<\/em>explained, noting that no person other than the founder would likely have those keys. \u201cThese are the blocks used to send 10 bitcoins to Hal Finney in January [2009] as the first bitcoin transaction,\u201d Wright told the news outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Wright admits that there were others who \u201chelped\u201d him create the cryptocurrency; and folks from\u00a0the community speaking to <em>BBC<\/em>\u00a0have agreed\u00a0that Wright is indeed the creator of Bitcoin. But some people still aren\u2019t convinced Wright is the\u2026 right\u2026 guy.<\/p>\n<p>For them, the investigation will continue. For the rest of us, the buck stops with Wright.<\/p>\n<div class=\"infinite-scroll-metadata\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-36168863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">IMAGE VIA<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Craig_Steven_Wright\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WIKIPEDIA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WIKIMEDIA<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div id=\"article-end\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"ld-586-7223\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creator of Bitcoin has, for as long as I can remember, been known as a secret \u201cSatoshi Nakamoto\u201d character.\u00a0Newsweek thought it found the actual \u201cSatoshi Nakamoto\u201d two years ago, with a major cover story that turned out to be untrue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-internet","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}