Being Satoshi: Inside Craig Wright’s decade-long fight to be the inventor of bitcoin
Australian computer scientist Craig Wright has long claimed to be the creator of bitcoin and owner of a $68 billion crypto cache. Now a court must decide whether it’s true- or a hoax for the ages.
It didn’t look like the redoubt of one of the most sought-after people on the planet. Overlooking the Macquarie Park cemetery in Sydney’s suburban North Ryde, the five-storey office building is typical of any low-rise business park. High concrete walls are punctuated with small windows, a wide lime stripe hinting half-heartedly at the modern.
But that’s where Australian Tax Office officers went on March 26, 2015. They were there to meet Dr Craig Wright, a computer scientist who was running several businesses from the address. Among them was CO1N, which claimed to use one of the world’s fastest supercomputers for research related to bitcoin.
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