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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Analysis company to compare a sample of Hal Finney’s writing with the posts of Satoshi Nakamoto. They found that it was the closest resemblance they had ever come across (that same company had previously analyzed the writing of other purported Satoshi figures, but nobody’s writing had a match as close as Hal Finney’s).Following the writing analysis, Greenberg didn’t definitively claim that Hal Finney was Satoshi Nakamoto. Instead, Greenberg theorized that Finney could have been a ghostwriter for Nakamoto. However, he also claimed it was possible that Finney had used his neighbor Dorian Nakamoto’s identity as a pseudonym for his online exploits.Greenberg eventually interviewed Hal Finney. Greenberg met Finney face-to-face, viewed the emails between him and Nakamoto, checked his bitcoin wallet history (including the very first bitcoin transaction, which Finney claims he forgot to pay back to Satoshi), and heard Finney deny that he was Satoshi. After the interview, Greenberg concluded that Finney was telling the truth. He no longer believed that Finney was Satoshi Nakamoto.Hal Finney died on August 28, 2014.POSSIBLE SATOSHI #4: CRAIG STEVEN WRIGHT Craig Steven Wright is an Australian computer programmer. To date, Craig Wright is the only notable person who has publicly claimed that he is Satoshi Nakamoto. In December 2015, Wired wrote that Craig Wright “either invented bitcoin or is a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did.”Just hours after that Wired story hit the internet, Wright’s home in Gordon, New South Wales was raided by a team of 10 Australian police officers. Wright’s office in Ryde, NSW was also searched by police. Australian law enforcement officials later announced that they had conducted searches on request of the Australian Taxation Office, claiming that the matter was “unrelated to recent media reporting regarding the digital currency bitcoin.” Gizmodo later reported that Wright had been involved in a dispute with Australian taxation authorities for several years. That dispute was unrelated to bitcoin.In May 2016, Craig Wright issued a public blog post where he claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto. That same day, the BBC and The Economist both released articles stating that they saw Wright signing a message using the same private key linked to the first bitcoin transaction (the transaction that occurred between Satoshi and Hal Finney). Two other people saw Wright sign the private key in separate incidents, including Jon Matonis (former director of the Bitcoin Foundation), and bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen.Unfortunately,
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