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It doesn't matter who created Bitcoin
On Monday, Australian Craig Wright told journalists from the BBC, The Economist and GQ that he created Bitcoin. He asserted that he was the figure behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto and presented Nakamoto's own cryptographic keys as proof. Gavin Andresen, the chief scientist at the Bitcoin foundation, supported him, saying that he verified these as "keys that only Satoshi could possess." But no sooner had the news been made public than people begin to pick holes in the proof that Wright had provided. By Thursday, Wright had withdrawn his claim, saying he didn't "have the courage" to prove he was Satoshi Nakamoto. In four days, he went from being the man behind Bitcoin to a scam artist on the hunt for a little glory.
