However, two specialist publications now claim that he is in fact an Australian businessman named Craig White. Instead it directed all inquiries to the Australian Tax Office, suggesting the raid could be linked to tax issues. The fictional character of Satoshi Nakamoto first published the code of Bitcoin in 2008, eventually releasing it as an open-source software a year later. If that question sounds familiar, it's because we've been here before. "I am not found and I do not want to be", he says in another message following the Newsweek story. Bitcoin's price has spiked in the wake of news that the mysterious creator of the cryptocurrency has been unmasked. DAN STRUDWICK: Hey my name is Dan. I'm a journalist from Gizmodo. Australian Federal Police today raided the Sydney home of a man named as the probable creator of cryptocurrency bitcoin.
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Topic: [2015-12-16]Police raid Sydney home of man said to be behind bitcoin (Read 232 times)
December 16, 2015, 11:34:42 AM
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