Reported Bitcoin 'founder' Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police

Post by nthitz » Wed, Dec 09, 2015, 5:15 AM UTC

Mtinie wrote: post #12

From the article: > Guardian Australia understands the raids are not related to the claims that Wright may have been involved in the creation of bitcoin, but are related to an Australian Tax Office investigation. So the story is that the Australian Tax Office just happened to be running an investigation looking into some facet of Craig Wright's finances. An investigation that apparently revealed some sort of abnormal…

Post by knughit » Wed, Dec 09, 2015, 5:18 AM UTC

bro-stick wrote: post #16

tlrobinson wrote: post #10

> Guardian Australia understands the raids are not related to the claims that Wright may have been involved in the creation of bitcoin, but are related to an Australian Tax Office investigation. Seems like a hell of a coincidence for these two things to happen on the same day...

There is a strong incentive for SN to stay anonymous now: extortion, GBH threats, kidnapping, tax evasion, etc. This could be some guy feigning humblebragging to fool prospective customers, or the vaguest individual Wired decided to hoist the label onto because it garners eyeballs in a Daily Mail way that's hard to repute. The raid is explained because many governments want evidence for tax evasion and evading the co…

Post by aianus » Wed, Dec 09, 2015, 5:22 AM UTC

bro-stick wrote: post #16

tlrobinson wrote: post #10

> Guardian Australia understands the raids are not related to the claims that Wright may have been involved in the creation of bitcoin, but are related to an Australian Tax Office investigation. Seems like a hell of a coincidence for these two things to happen on the same day...

There is a strong incentive for SN to stay anonymous now: extortion, GBH threats, kidnapping, tax evasion, etc. This could be some guy feigning humblebragging to fool prospective customers, or the vaguest individual Wired decided to hoist the label onto because it garners eyeballs in a Daily Mail way that's hard to repute. The raid is explained because many governments want evidence for tax evasion and evading the co…

Post by cba9 » Wed, Dec 09, 2015, 5:25 AM UTC

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #24

cba9 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At this point, if he is Satoshi, he would probably be better off coming out of the closet. If you read through the McGrath-Nichols documents about the Hotwire bankruptcy and how the R&D tax credits dispute killed Hotwire, it's clear the ATO has it out for Wright. I bet that whatever this raid is about, it's about something like R&D tax credits again ( http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-australian-who-may-hav... sa…

> But if he's Satoshi, he can take the moral high ground and wage a media campaign to shame the ATO into dropping the case and maybe finally correctly treating Bitcoin as money. How does this help? If they treat it that way, wouldn't Wright have a huge income tax debt?

Post by Fuzzwah » Wed, Dec 09, 2015, 5:27 AM UTC

aianus wrote: post #25

bro-stick wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a strong incentive for SN to stay anonymous now: extortion, GBH threats, kidnapping, tax evasion, etc. This could be some guy feigning humblebragging to fool prospective customers, or the vaguest individual Wired decided to hoist the label onto because it garners eyeballs in a Daily Mail way that's hard to repute. The raid is explained because many governments want evidence for tax evasion and evading the co…

> control SN = control BTC It's a decentralized, open-source protocol. SN couldn't do anything to it if he wanted to.