"Creator of Bitcoin" refused to present evidence of his authorship

The Australian Craig Wright, who declared himself the creator of the Bitcoin virtual currency, could not provide evidence of his authorship. All messages were deleted from Wright Blog on May 5, and instead of them an ad with an apology appeared.

Wright indicated that he “lacks courage” to say goodbye to anonymity and publish data on the very first bitcoins released. He apologized to John Matonis who supported him (former executive director of Bitcoin Foundation. - Slon ) and Gavin Andersen (chief scientific employee of Bitcoin Foundation. - Slon ).

It was previously assumed that Wright will be able to prove that he is the creator of cryptocurrencies, translating several bitcoins using a PGP key, known only to Satoshi Nakamoto (this pseudonym is used by the author of bitcoin). Also, Wright could sign several messages with the key of the “Creation block” of bitcoins - the initial block, which cannot be spent.

As Mashable notes , a few minutes before the appearance of the last message on Wright’s blog, Matonis published a mysterious tweet that there were no original blocks, but there is no other Satoshi. BBC News believes that Matonis's tweet testifies: he is still convinced that Wright is the author of Bitcoin, hiding under the pseudonym Nakamoto.

https://twitter.com/jonmatonis/status/728168542709878784

The fact that the real name Nakamoto is Craig Wright was said in December 2015 in articles published in Wired and Gizmodo . Then the Australian police conducted searches in Wright’s house, but explained its actions by a tax audit.

Bitcoin, created in 2009, is the most famous virtual currency in the world. New bitcoins are created by continuous calculation of hash function. The issue of bitcoins is limited to programmatically - more than 21 million cannot be released. At the end of 2013, the bitcoin exchange rate exceeded $ 1000, on the afternoon of May 5, 2016 was about $ 442.