In 2019, Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto returned - at least a handful of times. Most of the claims have been dismissed with skepticism or downright derision, but some of the claimants won’t give up. Here are the most dramatic claims made in the past year.
Craig S. Wright: perhaps the most notorious, long-running candidate for Bitcoin fame. In 2019, the case of Wright against the estate of Dave Kleiman veered into outlandish claims. Wright never managed to produce a private key belonging to early BTC blocks and wallets.
Wright has been dismissed as the real Nakamoto, though he is decided on affecting the future of BTC. This time, he plans “something big” for 2020, to be achieved through the Bitcoin SV (BSV) project. It remains to be seen what Wright manages to achieve, beyond entertaining the crypto community.
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