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Once again, you have a journalist ruining a person's life by claiming they created BitCoin. Wired better be able to back it up.

• l33tbro 11y ago
  It seems pretty well backed-up. Several leaked emails and deleted blog posts with Wright voluntarily identifying as Nakamoto. Certainly not as cavalier as Newsweek were last year when trying to out that other fellow. That doesn't mean it's not carefully crafted bullshit on his behalf
  • nickpsecurity 11y ago
    Not backed up. An unreliable source creates emails and blog posts that say it's him. End of story, right? No, not by far. This dump is worthless as evidence so far.
    • theGimp 11y ago
      But at least he was asking for it this time, unlike Dorian Nakamato.
      • nickpsecurity 11y ago
        I'll give you that. Whether Dorian was inventor or not, he didn't deserve all the stress and publicity he got. Whereas Wright is a self-absorbed prick playing media games even if not the leaker. Don't care what happens to him from now.
• PhasmaFelis 11y ago
  It's just as shitty whether it's true or false. Either way, they're deliberately exposing someone to unwanted public attention to sell magazines and ad impressions.
  • baby 11y ago
    For all I know, every news is trash now... First they just publish as soon as possible. So it's the law of everything goes, no time to verify. And their article are 60% useless shit.
  • Retra 11y ago
    Everything they publish is for that purpose whether it exposes someone or not. At least this is actual news if it's true and not mindless reprints of known information.
    • PhasmaFelis 11y ago
      > Everything they publish is for that purpose whether it exposes someone or not. Obviously. It's okay to make money off of things that are helpful or at least harmless. Not okay to make money off of hurting innocent people. > At least this is actual news if it's true and not mindless reprints of known information. So what? Facts are not inherently virtuous. If I published a report on your intimate personal habits, would you feel better if everything in the report was true?
• HillRat 11y ago
  If Wright isn't Satoshi, someone has gone to great lengths to fabricate a trail pointing to him -- and the evidence points to Wright himself building the case. I suspect that ATO raids have less to do with his "outing" than his outing has to do with the raids. After all, "ATO raids Bitcoin magnate" doesn't whip up much sympathy, but "ATO raids inventor of Bitcoin?" Ah, now we're talking above the fold news.
  • theGimp 11y ago
    True enough. I hadn't had the chance to read the article until now, and it's nothing like the Newsweek "expose."