Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright claimed to be the secret father of bitcoin known only as “Satoshi Nakamoto” But his claims have been dismantled in spectacular fashion by several security experts, who report that Wright’s math didn’t add up. Wright’s shell game involved using a passage of text from French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, which he claimed to have signed using a private key tied to very early blocks of bitcoins that were known to have been generated – or mined – by Nakamoto. Dan Kaminsky of WhiteOps dismisses Wright as being “the world’s first cryptographically provable con artist””]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/blogs/bitcoin-founder-claim-goes-bust-p-2130