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[–] FriedFood100 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

How is this not on the front page of Voat? This guy is incredible either way. What an article.

And there’s little doubt Wright is a certified bitcoin mogul. Even the $60 million portion of his cryptocurrency stash that’s verifiable in McGrathNicol’s public audit record is suspiciously large.

More circumstantially, Wright’s blog, his public records, and his verified writings on mail lists and Twitter sketch a man who matches with Satoshi Nakamoto’s known characteristics well enough to place him leagues above other candidates. He’s a former subscriber to the 1990s “cypherpunks” mailing list devoted to anti-authoritarianism and encryption, an advocate of gold as a financial tool, an accomplished C++ coder, a security professional plausibly capable of writing a tough-to-hack protocol like bitcoin, a libertarian who battled with tax authorities, and a fan of Japanese culture.

He is also—parallels to Nakamoto aside—a strange and remarkable person: an almost obsessive autodidact and double-PhD who once boasted of obtaining new graduate degrees at a rate of about one a year. He’s a climate-change denier, a serial entrepreneur who started companies ranging from security consultancies to a bitcoin bank, and an eccentric who wrote on his blog that he once accepted a challenge to create a pencil from scratch and spent years on the problem, going so far as to make his own bricks to build his own kiln in which to mix the pencil’s graphite.

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[–] downvotesattractor 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

This is big.

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[–] go1dfish [S] 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Certainly seems a lot more plausible than Newsweek's claim that Dorian is Satoshi.

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[–] Satchmo 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Holy crap this might actually be him... Listened to the talk, he understands bitcoin fundamentally but damn this feels like a sick hoax