https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
On 8 December 2015, Wired wrote that Craig Steven Wright, an Australian academic, "either invented bitcoin or is a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did".[52] Craig Wright took down his Twitter account and neither he nor his ex-wife responded to press inquiries. The same day, Gizmodo published a story with evidence supposedly obtained by a hacker who broke into Wright's email accounts, claiming that Satoshi Nakamoto was a joint pseudonym for Craig Steven Wright and computer forensics analyst David Kleiman, who died in 2013.[53] Wright's claim was supported by Jon Matonis (former director of the Bitcoin Foundation) and bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen.[54]
A number of prominent bitcoin promoters remained unconvinced by the reports.[55] Subsequent reports also raised the possibility that the evidence provided was an elaborate hoax,[56][57] which Wired acknowledged "cast doubt" on their suggestion that Wright was Nakamoto.[58] Bitcoin developer Peter Todd said that Wright's blog post, which appeared to contain cryptographic proof, actually contained nothing of the sort.[59] Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik agreed that evidence publicly provided by Wright does not prove anything, and security researcher Dan Kaminsky concluded Wright's claim was "intentional scammery".[60]
In May 2019, Wright started using English libel law to sue people who denied he was the inventor of bitcoin, and who called him a fraud.[61] In 2019 Wright registered US copyright for the bitcoin white paper and the code for Bitcoin 0.1.[62] Wright's team claimed this was "government agency recognition of Craig Wright as Satoshi Nakamoto";[63] the United States Copyright Office issued a press release clarifying that this was not the case (as they primarily determine whether a work is eligible for copyright, and do not investigate legal ownership, which, if disputed, is determined by the courts).[64]
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