A judge at London’s High Court ruled Monday (May 20) that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright lied and forged documents to support his false claim of being the inventor of bitcoin. Judge James Mellor ruled in March that the evidence Wright was not the pseudonymous “Satoshi Nakamoto” and gave his reasons for this conclusion Monday, Reuters reported Monday. The
Illustration: Maksim Zakharau (Getty Images) On January 3, 2009, Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, mined the first block of the Bitcoin blockchain, known as the Genesis Block, which contained a reward of 50 Bitcoin. The technical foundations of Bitcoin were being established at the time, but the currency did not have any real-world value. That changed
The cryptocurrency world has been thrown off the rails by the meteoric rise of BlockDAG, an upcoming project promising groundbreaking blockchain technology and high performance potential. Riding on a wave of intrigue and a leak by a leading publication, the BlockDAG presale is smashing records, but its origins remain enigmatic. Could anonymity be the secret
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