I see no mention of a crime in this article. If he did create bitcoin, he should be celebrated.
Tax-related investigation
Reported Bitcoin 'founder' Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police
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#92Once again, you have a journalist ruining a person's life by claiming they created BitCoin. Wired better be able to back it up.
It seems pretty well backed-up. Several leaked emails and deleted blog posts with Wright voluntarily identifying as Nakamoto. Certainly not as cavalier as Newsweek were last year when trying to out that other fellow. That doesn't mean it's not carefully crafted bullshit on his behalf
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#93http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-australian-who-may-hav... "Under the scheme, a company which turns over less than $20 million is eligible to apply for a cash rebate of 45 cents for every dollar spent on research and development activity. According to a press release in May, 2015, DeMorgan Ltd succeeded in its application for the rebate. That means DeMorgan were able to prove to AusIndustry that it had spent $12…
I'm a consultant in the R&D Tax space. The press release relates to an advanced finding, which is an advanced approval of R&D activities. It does not however guarantee approval for the amount of expenditure they would be claiming. A tax refund of that size would naturally attract the attention of the Australian Tax Office(ATO). The press release is also dated before they could submit their tax return to obtain a 14/1…
Andrew or David? We've done some work with you before (Vector 5).
Re: Reported Bitcoin 'founder' Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police
#94"I do not want to be your posterboy. I am not found and I do not want to be."
Why oh why can't journalists just respect his wishes!
"People love my secret identity and hate me."
It certainly seems that the Australian police aren't on particularly good terms with him at the moment.
If the Australian government takes control of the Tulip Trust bitcoin stash, the world has to deal with a cryptocurrency being managed by politicians.
Whoever gets them, I hope that the bitcoins remain off the market until at least 2020 as Kleiman wanted.
Which makes me think - could the bitcoins from Kleiman be considered "inherited", and thus subject to inheritance regulations?
Another hypothetical thought: when the original bitcoin creator mined the first bitcoins, they were worthless. They only gain value if someone else projects value onto them. They're not being used. Imagine they're a form of trading derivative (e.g. stock options): the right to trade in future. Are those taxed? Anyhow, it seems very complicated, and confiscating personal computers with a whole host of other files seems extreme.
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#95http://gizmodo.com/this-australian-says-he-and-his-dead-frie...
It seems like when you put everything together that Craig Steven Wright + Dave Kleiman + unknown associates = Satoshi. This honestly seems like a much simpler conclusion to me than the alternative which is that someone (whether a group or a person) went to the trouble of concocting extremely elaborate and convincing evidence for the purpose of framing Wright as Satoshi.
Hopefully the media didn't out the wrong guy this time (although in retrospect: I'm not even sure why Gwern thought it wise to send the leaks to the press. I would have thought that he would sympathize with Satoshi wanting to stay anonymous given that he writes under a pseudonym himself...)
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#97From 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…
If I had an ongoing investigation into someone suspected of tax evasion and suddenly the internet at large revealed his identity, I'd be sure to raid asap - Wright was probably not aware that the tax office was investigating him, but I'm sure that if he is Satoshi and sits on a million BTC, and his identity is revealed, I'd try and GTFO. Which wouldn't be in the tax office's interest.
Not sure if the above makes sense. The two are probably related.
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#98What a weird ass article, I mean from the guardian - writing paragraph over paragraph of gossip from somebody who barely knows the man (their landlord), because somebody has not paid their taxes on time?
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#99From 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…
If I had an ongoing investigation into someone suspected of tax evasion and suddenly the internet at large revealed his identity, I'd be sure to raid asap - Wright was probably not aware that the tax office was investigating him, but I'm sure that if he is Satoshi and sits on a million BTC, and his identity is revealed, I'd try and GTFO. Which wouldn't be in the tax office's interest. Not sure if the above makes sens…
According to the article, he was very aware of the investigation: tax officers interviewed him about his bitcoin assets.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
They do, but hire big accounting firms to do so. This was my mother's job at KPMG, and where I work is going through the process at the moment.
Yep, we had Deloitte AU helping with ours.
Both crazy not to try and do it in house for the cost. Those guys are charging 15% and say you won't get it if you do it yourself. Any confident business person should be able to. It is meant to be self administered. It is a huge profit center for the likes of KPMG.