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Bitcoin's self-proclaimed creator accused of using obscure font to steal billions
If you're going to defraud someone out of several hundred thousand bitcoin, maybe don't also draw undue attention to yourself by publicly claiming to have created the cryptocurrency.
Oh, and you probably shouldn't make a shitty computer font the linchpin of your scam, either.
And yet despite these precautions being seemingly commonsense, that is exactly what Craig Wright stands accused of doing in a recently filed $10 billion lawsuit. Yes, that's "billion" with a "B."
For those of you who haven't been following the madness that is the world of cryptocurrency, Bitcoin was created in 2009 by an unknown individual or group under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto. At one point in 2016 Wright asserted that he is, in fact, Nakamoto. However, experts in the field quickly called bull. Read more...
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