On October 31 2008 an academic paper caused a sensation when it was published, proposing an electronic cash system that would later come to be known around the world as bitcoin. The author was Satoshi Nakamoto.
Except, that is, Satoshi Nakamoto did not exist. He was an alias for the inventor of a currency that has become the default means of trading money online. Years after it was created and exploded in value, the true creator of bitcoin remains hotly disputed.
Craig Wright, a computer scientist based in Surrey, insists that he is the real Nakamoto. He emigrated from Australia to the UK in December 2015 and says that it is “widely acknowledged” that he is one of the world’s foremost experts on crypto-currencies.