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Craig S Wright

Role

Chief Scientist at nChain

Location

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Education

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Charles Sturt University(Computer Science / Economics),Master of Statistics at University of Newcastle (Mathematics and Statistics), , Master of Laws - LLM at Northumbria University (International Business / Trade / Commerce)

Current Project

nChain

Twitter

@profFaustus

LinkedIn

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About Craig S Wright

Craig Wright is an entrepreneur, and according to him, Satoshi Nakamoto.

Recent News

  • Craig Wright speaking at Coingeek 2020. Image: Decrypt.

    Craig Wright loses appeal against Bitcoin.com's Roger Ver

    Self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright has lost an appeal against Bitcoin.com founder Roger Ver, according to court documents. Wright sued Ver on May 2, when the latter appeared at a Bitcoin Cash meetup in London. He claimed that Ver had libelled him by calling him a fraud. There's a long-running dispute in the crypto community over whether Wright really is Satoshi Nakamoto, the psuedonymous creator of Bitcoin. Critics say that he hasn't signed any of Satoshi's Bitcoin—which would count a...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Tim Copeland
  • $64 million worth of once dormant Bitcoin may still move. Image: Shutterstock

    Signatures hint $64 million of Satoshi-era Bitcoin may still move

    Just last week, an age-old amount of 50 Bitcoin was moved, coins that were mined in Bitcoin’s first month of existence. This kicked up a stir, over rumours that Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, may have moved them. These rumours were swiftly quashed, but it looks like this isn’t the only old Bitcoin that may still be active. $500,000 Bitcoin stash from Satoshi era just moved On Monday, a list of 145 Bitcoin addresses were signed with identical messages that said self-procl...

    NewsCoins
    2 min read
    Will Heasman
  • Craig Wright accused of plaigarism. Image: Shutterstock.

    Craig Wright allegedly plagiarized his PhD thesis

    Craig Wright, the self-professed creator of Bitcoin, allegedly plagiarised the vast bulk of his 2017 doctoral thesis, according to a research article.   At least 30 pages of Wright's thesis—including an entire chapter—constitutes "substantial, deliberate plagiarism," alleges a pseudonymous researcher dubbed "Paintedfrog." "Wright plagiarized huge swaths of content and reworded it to avoid automated detection tools. In most cases, he simply substituted synonyms every few words," he stated, in the...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Will Heasman
  • Wright speaking at Coingeek 2020. Image: Decrypt.

    Judge gives Craig Wright 3 days in billion-dollar Bitcoin lawsuit

    A US district court judge has ordered self-styled Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright to produce documents that support his claims by April 17. On Monday, the judge overruled Wright’s objection, which was based on attorney-client privilege.  The order is the latest development in Kleiman vs. Wright, a long running court action against the Australian computer scientist who has long claimed to be mysterious Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto.  Dave Kleiman passed away in 2013. His estate believe he was p...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Adriana Hamacher
  • Self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright speaking at Coingeek 2020. Image: Decrypt.

    Craig Wright drops lawsuit against Adam Back, pays all costs

    nChain chief scientist and self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright has abandoned his lawsuit against Blockstream CEO Adam Back and paid all legal costs incurred. Back tweeted yesterday that the case was dropped in January 2020 when Wright told the court he was discontinuing the case. He said that Wright agreed to pay 100% of his legal fees, which he claimed was unusual and that, typically, around 75% of fees are usually met. Back received £6,666 ($8,400) in fees. update time. https://t.co...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Tim Copeland
  • Craig Wright speaking at Coingeek 2020. Image: Decrypt.

    Craig Wright swears his lawyer is real

    Self-professed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright has filed an official objection to a US Magistrates Order on Discovery that dismisses his attorney privilege. Wright’s challenge, issued on Monday, is the latest development in Kleiman vs. Wright, a long running court action against the Australian computer scientist who has long claimed to be mysterious Bitcoin inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto. Craig Wright strolls across the stage at Coingeek 2020. Image: Shutterstock. The lawsuit against Wright was first...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Adriana Hamacher
  • Wright’s latest motion insisted that there was no evidence to show that his lawyer’s documents were forged. Image: Shutterstock.

    Craig Wright ordered to pay $165,000 in legal fees

    A US court has ordered self-professed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright to pay legal costs totaling $165,500 in connection with a billion-dollar lawsuit that has dragged on for two years. The judge removed some of the costs but still left Wright with a sizable bill, according to court documents. The lawsuit against Wright was first launched in February 2018. Wright is being sued by the estate of Dave Kleiman, Wright's former business partner, for allegedly defrauding the Kleiman family of their rig...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Tim Copeland

  • Craig Wright can't explain why his biography got scrapped

    A book about the self-avowed inventor of Bitcoin, Craig Wright, has been shelved by publishers after alleged threats of litigation. Behind The Mask: Craig Wright and the Battle for Bitcoin will no longer be published at the end of this month. According to Goodreads, the book—which Wright originally signed off on—would have been a "stranger than fiction" plunge into “blackmail, police raids, hidden fortunes, death threats and a billion dollar offshore trust.” Unfortunately, none of these exploits...

    NewsBusiness
    2 min read
    Will Heasman

  • Report: China’s blockchain startups got $3.5 billion in 2019

    Here’s an insider's look at who’s getting funding among China’s crypto-related startups. Rhino Data, a data-driven investment platform, just released a 2019 blockchain investment and financing report, in collaboration with Xinhua Finance. The latter is the official financial news outlet of Xinhua, the government mouthpiece. First, here’s the tl;dr: There were 245 investment and financing deals in China, with some $3.5 billion invested overall. Both numbers are roughly 50% lower than in 2018, th...

    NewsBusiness
    7 min read
    Shuyao Kong
  • The funds are locked up. Image: Shutterstock.

    Confirmed: Craig Wright doesn’t have keys to $8 billion of Bitcoin

    Craig Wright’s lawyer confirmed to Decrypt today that Wright does not possess—nor even claim to possess—the private keys that can be used to spend $8 billion of Bitcoin that Satoshi Nakamoto mined in Bitcoin’s early days. Wright filed a statement in the Southern District of Florida late Tuesday asserting that he had received information to unlock an encrypted file of thousands of public Bitcoin addresses that he claims to own. Wright had previously said, under oath, that an “encrypted file” exis...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Tim Copeland
  • A pile of Bitcoin. Image: Shutterstock.

    Craig Wright reveals further details on $8 billion Bitcoin stash

    Twist number three in the (latest) continually unfolding Craig Wright drama: After nearly a year of Dave Kleiman's estate trying to gauge the extent of Wright's bitcoin holdings, they have finally been revealed. As Decrypt reported yesterday, Wright notified the court, "that a third party has provided the necessary information and key slice to unlock the encrypted file, and Dr. Wright has produced a list of his bitcoin holdings." By third party, he was referring to the "mysterious bonded courie...

    NewsBusiness
    4 min read
    Decrypt Staff
  • Image: Decrypt

    Craig Wright: I've now got the keys to $8 billion worth of bitcoin

    Correction: Craig Wright has not received the private keys to his bitcoin stash. The encrypted file that has been unlocked contains a list of bitcoin holdings, not the private keys necessary to access those holdings. The debate in court has been over this list, which Wright has now produced to the court. Lawyers for Craig Wright, the Australian computer scientist who claims to be the inventor of Bitcoin, say Wright has received the digital keys to a fortune that would grant him access to approxi...

    NewsCoins
    4 min read
    Ben Munster

  • Neal Stephenson: I’m not Satoshi Nakamoto

    SAN FRANCISCO—There are some people who think that the great cypherpunk writer Neal Stephenson could be Satoshi Nakamoto. They make a fairly compelling case. Sadly, they’re wrong.  “I couldn’t be. So I’m not,” he told Decrypt in an interview today. Stephenson, whose books (including Snow Crash  and Cryptonomicon), have done more to help us envision the future than just about anyone writing speculative fiction, was the headliner at the annual Blockstack Summit in San Francisco today. He was inter...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Josh Quittner
  • Craig Wright claims to have invented Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Image: Decrypt

    Craig Wright enters settlement talks in $10 billion Bitcoin lawsuit

    Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright is in settlement talks with the estate of Dave Kleiman, which is suing him in a bombshell $10 billion lawsuit. Both the Kleiman estate and Wright have asked the judge for a 30-day extension of all case deadlines to facilitate their settlement talks, according to a September 17 filing in Florida federal court. “The parties have been engaged in extensive settlement negotiations and have reached a non-binding agreement in principle to settle this matter...

    NewsBusiness
    3 min read
    Samantha Chang
  • Craig Wright claims to have invented Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Image: Decrypt

    Craig Wright, Shmeg Wright: An argument why Bitcoin SV is the most undervalued asset

    [Recently, we were hanging out in a crypto-friendly co-working space in San Francisco, Node,  and met a guy named Zach Resnick. A jazz musician and former professional poker player, Resnick is also founder and CEO of flight concierge service EasyPoint.me. When we heard that Resnick also happened to be managing director of New Economy Fund—which is a major investor in BSV—we couldn't help but ask him whether the recent legal travails involving BSV frontman Craig Wright had caused him to change hi...

    NewsOpinion
    7 min read

  • Craig Wright ordered to reveal bitcoin addresses, but don’t hold your breath

    The dispute over 1.1 million of “Satoshi’s bitcoins” took an interesting turn over the weekend, with a judge ordering self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright to produce documents related to his bitcoin holdings. These documents could reveal clues about Bitcoin’s origins—including the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of the cryptocurrency—and potentially affect the course of various libel lawsuits that Wright has waged against those who have publicly disparaged hi...

    NewsCoins
    5 min read
    Guillermo Jimenez

  • Craig Wright produced fake email in billion-dollar lawsuit, expert claims in court

    Craig Wright, the self-professed creator of Bitcoin, is involved in a whole heap of lawsuits. It’s easy to forget he’s facing a multi-billion-dollar suit himself. And the latest twist in the case of a former associate’s estate versus the man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto will do little to dissuade the “Faketoshi” heckles from large swaths of the crypto community. According to testimony provided by a cyber security expert in a Florida district court on Monday, Wright submitted an email into e...

    NewsCoins
    3 min read
    Guillermo Jimenez