The inventor of Bitcoin is Dr. Craig Wright. You might not believe me, but that does not matter. In a recent interview conducted by In Early podcast, some remarkable details were mentioned that might have gone under the radar—so far.
At the end of the podcast, Dr. Wright was asked by host Matt Green about the time of “identifying as Satoshi.” However, Dr. Wright did not willingly come out as Satoshi Nakamo but rather outed by online publishers Gizmodo and Wired, which went against the Australian polymath’s desire to keep his identity private.
“I wasn’t as anonymous as people think. I’d been talking to people in government,” Dr. Wright said in the podcast.
Wait, a government already did know that Dr. Craig Wright was Satoshi Nakamoto back in 2015?
Yes. In the podcast, Dr. Wright explained that the criminal activities on Silk Road led to him being in touch with a government agency, precisely about having created Bitcoin as a payment system.
Silk Road was a darknet marketplace launched in 2011 and “powered by Bitcoin,” as in people ordered drugs there and paid with digital currencies. At the end of 2014, Silk Road was taken down for good.
Remember, Gizmodo and Wired launched their campaign to identify Dr. Wright as Satoshi Nakamoto at the end of 2015. However, Silk Road was busted in 2014. While I have no further knowledge of the details, it seems safe to assume that the government agency that eventually cracked down on Silk Road in 2014 has been in touch with Dr. Wright before the take-down or shortly after.
In the In Early podcast, Dr. Wright explained: “There were people who knew who I was, then blamed me for everything that went wrong having Silk Road (…). I mean, you sit there going “well, you basically created the system” (…). If I invent a chief’s knife, I can’t be blamed for the murders if someone got stabbed.”
So, a government agency ‘interrogated’ Dr. Wright because of Silk Road—why?
If you listen to the public voices in the so-called ‘crypto’ space, one might get the impression that Dr. Wright is fraudulently claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto. However, why did a government agency want to talk with him about the Silk Road—precisely for “having invented Bitcoin,” which was used on the Silk Road marketplace?
The In Early podcast was not the first time Dr. Wright mentioned the Silk Road. We have a video of him from three years ago (timestamped):
“Many people died because of Silk Road (…). Kids died from bad ecstasy. They had overdoses. People died because of fentanyl. It is a horrible, evil drug. Mixed with heroin. It is one of the most potent things ever invented by humankind. And it is an epidemic because of my invention,” Dr. Wright said three years ago at the CoinGeek Seoul conference.
That is why a government agency wanted to talk to Dr. Wright, to make sure he either had something to do with Silk Road—and he does not. However, he invented the payment method that was abused by the Silk Road perpetrators, which is Bitcoin.
Why the In Early podcast is relevant in this regard – the upcoming COPA case?
The reason I mention this here is simple. Dr. Wright is being sued by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA). We already have heard witnesses in the Norwegian trial of Dr. Wright vs. Granath, where the former presented multiple testimonies of co-workers and even family members who were sure he is indeed Satoshi Nakamoto.
Imagine a government agency has been “interrogating” Dr. Wright for having invented Bitcoin – because of Silk Road. Sure, one might not easily access the documentation associated with this process, as they are probably protected due to the secrecy of criminal investigations against the darknet marketplace. That was long ago, though.
Would you “lawyer up” if the government agency that took down Silk Road had some questions for you? Is your lawyer a witness of this process, then? What about the agents investigating who was responsible for Bitcoin? There is evidence by documents, and there is evidence by testimonies.
Dr. Wright has left plenty of evidence trails way before using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto!
Furthermore, in the In Early podcast, Dr. Wright explained that before 2008, he used different names for the kind of project that later became known as Bitcoin, such as TimeCoin, for example, or TimeChain. These early drafts of Bitcoin were presented to accounting firm BDO (as witnessed by Neville Sinclair in the Norwegian court case), as well as to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT).
Yes, Microsoft.
“I started talking to Microsoft about the solutions. I talked to some other American companies where I was flying out and visited Microsoft (…). I didn’t really explain it terribly well, the White Paper wasn’t ready when I was first talking to them. (…) I’d been talking to Microsoft for six months (…),” Dr. Wright said in the podcast.
Interesting, isn’t it? Again, pitching a project to Microsoft for several months could have left evidence. As far as I can tell from the COPA members list, Microsoft is not part of it.
Dr. Wright is currently busy working on the original Bitcoin on the BSV Blockchain, a blockchain that has processed over one billion transactions in 2023 so far. COPA has nothing to do with that success, and a lot of well-respected public figures seem to understand the new information economy that BSV Blockchain enables:
Watch: Dr. Craig Wright explains the true Bitcoin
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Source: https://coingeek.com/governments-know-dr-craig-wright-is-satoshi-nakamoto-buckle-up/