wired magazine – the paradise paradox

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The Story:

Within the Bitcoin space, and yellow journalism, there has been the long running mystery – who is Satoshi Nakamoto? Run a quick search and Google will tell you the following things;

Craig Wright has been the latest person to have been accused of being the ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’. These accusations published by ‘Wired’ and ‘Gizmodo’ may have led to the raids on his family house and office by Australian Federal Police (AFP), with the raids occurring just a few hours after the articles were published. The authorities claimed the raids were unrelated, and when Reuters reporter Jane Wardell asked the police what they were doing, one officer gave the elusive answer: “clearing the house”.

Although there has been no public response by Craig Wright, the media continues in frenzy. Although it is interesting, the question among many Bitcoiners is: why do we need to know the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto? Why do people care? He may be holding hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin, and probably deserves a solid pat on the back – but is that really a reason for a tabloid manhunt?

However, if the question must be asked, then the evidence must be duly considered and analysed. In this episode we review the recording from the Las Vegas Bitcoin Investor Conference where Craig Wright makes a public appearance and talks (vaguely) about his interaction with Bitcoin, and sift through some articles to determine the probability that sensationalistic journalists have indeed discovered Mr. Bitcoin himself, in the form of Mr. Wright. Join us in a hair-raising analysis as we follow the blockchain into another episode of … The Paradise Paradox!