- Stephen Mollah stated he was Satoshi Nakamoto in entrance of a dozen journalists in London
- Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd was wrongly named as Nakamoto final month in an HBO documentary
Another man has come ahead claiming to be the mysterious creator behind Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.
This time, he’s referred to as Stephen Mollah. Taking to the stage at London’s Front Line Club in entrance of round a dozen journalists, Mollah made the declare with one journalist calling it an “odd set up.”
Live tweeting the occasion on X, Joe Tidy, a BBC journalist, stated: “An odd set up to the press conference as the organiser asked me to pay £500 to attend and appear on stage to ask questions of the billionaire mystery man.”
I’m at a London occasion billed because the ‘unveiling of the true legal identity of Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto’. An odd set as much as the press convention because the organiser requested me to pay £500 to attend and seem on stage to ask questions of the billionaire thriller man. pic.twitter.com/3oTB6qX20U
— Joe Tidy (@joetidy) October 31, 2024
According to Mollah, he’s claimed he’s Nakamoto earlier than, is presently in a authorized dispute about it, and is now prepared to offer proof. He tried to disclose who he was in 2016, but “someone stopped him.”
After an hour of listening to Mollah’s backstory, he failed to offer proof. Instead, he equipped a sequence of screenshots that would have simply been faked. When Mollah was requested to maneuver a few of the Genesis Bitcoin, he stated he would in the ‘next few months.’
Mollah and Charles Anderson, the occasion organizer, have been accused of fraud when Mollah posed as Nakamoto between November 2022 and October final yr. The pair pleaded not responsible at a listening to final month, The Standard studies.
Another one to the listing
Mollah joins a rising listing of people that have claimed to be Nakamoto or others imagine them to be.
Last month, the HBO documentary Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery wrongly named Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd as Nakamoto. Before the massive reveal, the documentary additionally pointed to Blockstream founder Adam Back.
Following the documentary, Todd stated he’d been forced underground over fears for his security.
Others believed to be Nakamoto embrace late software program engineer Hal Finney and pc scientist Nick Szabo.
In May, a UK High Court ruled against Australian Craigt Wright that he was Nakamoto, arguing that Wright had lied “extensively and repeatedly” all through the trial, additional accusing him of presenting “fabricated” proof to help his claims.
