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'''Craig Steven Wright''' (born October 1970) is an Australian computer scientist and businessman. He claims to be the real person behind the pseudonym [[Satoshi Nakamoto]]—the creator of [[bitcoin]]—a claim that is strongly disputed within the bitcoin community. Wright was an adjunct lecturer in [[computer science]] and researcher at [[Charles Sturt University]], where he was working on his second PhD entitled "The quantification of [[Information systems]] risk". He completed 18 [[SANS Institute]] courses and was the world's first person to receive [[Global Information Assurance Certification|GIAC]] certification in Compliance and Audits, He holds GSEMalware and GSECompliance certifications, among others, from [[Global Information Assurance Certification|GIAC]].

Wright says his PhD is in [[theology]], comparative religious and classical studies, achieved in 2003 with a dissertation titled "Gnarled roots of a creation theory".

Wright has written or co-written several books, including ''The IT Regulatory and Standards Compliance Handbook: How to Survive Information Systems Audit and Assessments''. Wright has been a trustee of the [[Uniting Church]] in New South Wales.

== Career and businesses ==
Wright worked in [[information technology]] for various companies, including [[OzEmail]], [[K-Mart]] and the [[Australian Securities Exchange]], as well as working as a security consultant for [[Mahindra & Mahindra]]. He designed the architecture for possibly the world's first [[online casino]], Lasseter's Online (based in [[Alice Springs]], [[Northern Territory]]), which went online in 1999. He was the information systems manager for the accounting firm [[BDO Kendalls]].

In 2004, Wright was convicted of contempt of court by the [[Supreme Court of New South Wales]]. He was sentenced to 28 days in jail for breaching an injunction that prevented him from approaching customers of DeMorgan Information Security Systems, which he resigned from in 2003. The sentence was suspended on condition of performing 250 hours of community service. After appealing the decision, the ruling was upheld in 2005 and also in a subsequent appeal to the [[High Court of Australia]] in 2006.

Wright was the [[CEO]] of the technology firm Hotwire Preemptive Intelligence Group (Hotwire PE), which planned to launch Denariuz Bank, the world's first bitcoin-based bank, though it encountered regulatory difficulties with the Australian Tax Office and failed in 2014. Wright is the founder of [[cryptocurrency]] company DeMorgan Ltd., which received $54 million [[Australian dollar|AUD]] in tax incentives via [[AusIndustry]]. He is also the founder of the [[cybersecurity]] and [[computer forensics]] company Panopticrypt Pty Ltd.

==Bitcoin==

In December 2015, two parallel investigations by ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' and ''[[Gizmodo]]'' alleged that Wright may have been the inventor of bitcoin. Subsequent reporting, however, raised serious concerns that Wright was engaged in an elaborate hoax.

Hours after ''Wired'' published their allegations, Wright's home in [[Gordon, New South Wales]] and an associated business premise in [[Ryde, Sydney]] were raided by the [[Australian Federal Police]]. According to the AFP, the raid was part of an [[Australian Tax Office]] investigation.

On 2 May 2016, Wright publicly claimed to be the creator of bitcoin. This claim was corroborated by [[Bitcoin Foundation]] founding director Jon Matonis in a blog post, stating "For cryptographic proof in my presence, Craig signed and verified a message using the private key from block #1 newly-generated coins and from block #9 newly-generated coins (the first transaction to [[Hal Finney (computer scientist)|Hal Finney]])." Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik agreed that evidence provided by Wright does not prove anything, and security researcher [[Dan Kaminsky]] in his blog concluded Wright's claim was a scam. Jordan Pearson and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai said that "Wright simply reused an old signature from a bitcoin transaction performed in 2009 by Satoshi."}}

Earlier in an exclusive interview with the BBC, Wright had promised to give "extraordinary proof to an extraordinary claim." He has yet to provide any verifiable evidence of his authorship of the original Satoshi whitepaper or collaboration with known early developers and refuses, or is unable, to provide the one piece of evidence which would prove his claim, the original Satoshi Nakamoto GPG private key.

==Source==

[http://wikipedia.org/ http://wikipedia.org/]
[[Category:People of the industry]]
==See Also on BitcoinWiki==
* [[Open Collectors Network]]
* [[JustHive]]
* [[DataBrokerDAO]]
* [[SafeCrypt]]
* [[Retail.Global]]

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