{"id":3385,"date":"2016-05-03T13:46:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T05:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/03\/not-many-are-convinced-craig-wright-is-the-real-father-of-bitcoin\/"},"modified":"2016-05-03T13:46:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T05:46:37","slug":"not-many-are-convinced-craig-wright-is-the-real-father-of-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/03\/not-many-are-convinced-craig-wright-is-the-real-father-of-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Not many are convinced Craig Wright is the real &#039;Father of Bitcoin&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dsc9414-about-1024x683\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA1LzAyL2NjL0RTQzk0MTRhYm91LmRiZmEyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/ec086a16\/702\/DSC9414-about-1024x683.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Not+many+are+convinced+Craig+Wright+is+the+real+%27Father+of+Bitcoin%27&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F02%2Fbitcoin-creator-skepticism%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F05%2F02%2Fbitcoin-creator-skepticism%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>WTF, bitcoin?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The identity of bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto continues to be one big dramatic, confusing question mark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, The BBC and <i>The Economist<\/i> and <i>GQ<\/i> all reported that Australian businessman Craig Steven Wright\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/02\/satoshi-nakamoto-craig-wright\/\">made a very credible claim to be Nakamoto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Backed by a blog post by Wright \u2014 and with <a href=\"http:\/\/gavinandresen.ninja\/satoshi\">the support<\/a> of Bitcoin Foundation chief scientist Gavin Andresen \u2014 it looked like we might finally know the identity of one of technology\u2019s most elusive figures.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, you may recall, was previously pegged as Nakamoto in reports from <i>Wired<\/i> and <i>Gizmodo<\/i>\u00a0last year. Those reports were <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/10\/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-craig-wright\/\">immediately scrutinized<\/a>, with <i>Wired<\/i> later reporting it felt Wright\u2019s claim of creating bitcoin may have just been an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/12\/new-clues-suggest-satoshi-suspect-craig-wright-may-be-a-hoaxer\/\">elaborate hoax<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/02\/bitcoin-creator-skepticism\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/craig-wright\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Craig Wright<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/bitcoin\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Bitcoin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/tech\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Tech<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/apps-software\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Apps Software<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1462252326' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1462252326'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/lPo1sCEh8fw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTF, bitcoin? The identity of bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto continues to be one big dramatic, confusing question mark. On Monday, The BBC and The Economist and GQ all reported that Australian businessman Craig Steven Wright\u00a0made a very credible claim to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/03\/not-many-are-convinced-craig-wright-is-the-real-father-of-bitcoin\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[831,2621,2620,725],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-apps-software","tag-bitcoin","tag-craig-wright","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}