The mysterious creator of Bitcoin could be an Australian businessman

The search for the creator of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin — who goes by the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto — has sent the media scampering all over the world, but according to two new reports, they should have just come to Sydney, Australia.

According to Wired and Gizmodo, all signs point to a 44-year-old Australian computer expert and businessman, Craig Steven Wright, as the mysterious Nakamoto

Yet despite what Wired calls "a massive trove of evidence," neither are able to say they've found their guy once and for all.

Emerging in 2008 after a Bitcoin white paper was published by Nakamoto, the peer-to-peer digital currency has been cast as both the future of money and as a doomed social experiment Read more...