Ever since the cryptocurrency Bitcoin has been created, many people have been trying to find out who really is behind the alias of Satoshi Nakamoto.
As it turns out, Satoshi Nakamoto has been hiding in Sydney, Australia all along.
According to two new reports from Wired and Gizmodo, Satoshi Nakamoto is believed to be a 44-year-old Australian computer expert and businessman named Craig Steven Wright.
For those who are unaware of what Bitcoin is, Mashable gives a pretty apt explanation:
"Emerging in 2008 after a Bitcoin white paper was published by Nakamoto, the peer-to-peer digital currency has been cast as both the future of money and as a doomed social experiment. Not issued by a central bank, Bitcoin is created by a computer-generated process known as 'mining.' Although the value of Bitcoin has fluctuated dramatically over the years, Wired suggests that whoever Nakamoto is, they appear 'to control a stash of bitcoins easily worth a nine-figure fortune.'"
So how did the publications find out that Satoshi Nakamoto is Craig Steven Wright? Well, an anonymous source leaked the publications with documents, which included blog posts, emails and accounting statements.
The documentation indicates links between Craig Steven Wright and the alleged creator of Bitcoin.
Reports claim that the documents have shown that Wright has been long suggesting to friends and associates since 2008 that he has been Nakamoto all this time.
What's even more interesting is that American computer forensics analyst David Kleiman also seems to be a part of the Bitcoin inception.
Kleiman, who passed away in 2013, served not only as a confidante for Wright, but he was also the "possible recipient (or creator) or an immense Bitcoin trust."
According to a document obtained by Gizmodo, Craig Steven Wright wrote to Kleiman about his ongoing frustration with the Bitcoin legacy: "I cannot do the Satoshi bit anymore. They no longer listen. I am better as a myth," he wrote.
He also added, "My pseudonym is more popular than I can ever hope to be."
