Bitcoin World Sceptical About Claims Craig Wright is Satoshi

Dec 9, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 10, 2015 at 6:37 a.m. UTC. The bitcoin world reacted with a mixture disbelief, open scepticism and aloofness at the latest claims that Satoshi Nakamoto is a pseudonym of Australian Craig S Wright.

Wired published a piece fingering Craig Wright as bitcoin's anonymous creator.

Since then Wright's home and office have been raided by Australian tax authorities, who say the actions are unrelated to the publication of claims that he is Satoshi.

While mainstream media commentators and observers lauded the pieces for their rigour, the bitcoin world appeared unconvinced that Wright is indeed the man behind the world's most popular cryptocurrency.

Whistleblower group Wikileaks also issued a string of tweets saying that it refutes the claim that Wright is Satoshi.

The organisation said it "Assessed that Craig S Wright is unlikely to be the principal coder" behind bitcoin's invention, based on Wright's views on PayPal and hacktivist group Anonymous espoused in articles he wrote in 2011.

Wright wrote an article in July 2011 at expert explainer site The Conversation saying that he hoped PayPal would not be hacked by groups like Anonymous, at a time when the payments company was blocking donations to Wikileaks.

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Nathaniel Popper, who hypothesised that Nick Szabo is Satoshi in his account of bitcoin's early days, Digital Gold, was also doubtful about the Wright connection.

In a review of Popper's book, left on Amazon this September, Wright expressed his unhappiness about the "Assumption that SN must be a bloody yank", and criticised the analysis of Satoshi's identity as "Too limited".