Satoshi Nakamoto is back from the dead, Craig Wright changes his mind about providing proof

The saga of Satoshi Nakamoto took another confusing twist, just when the matter seemed to be almost settled . Late last year, Wired and Gizmodo published articles that followed a series of private communications among the group of people who were involved with the Bitcoin community right from its inception. Wright went incognito for a few months after the revelations. Wright spent this time planning on revealing his real identity and gathering the proofs needed to back up this claim. In a private demonstration to Gavin Andresen, a bitcoin developer, Wright modified a text string using a key only Nakamoto was known to possess. He then publicly started claiming that he was the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. This broke the internet, as the mysteries that had cloaked Satoshi Nakamoto threatened to fade away. Wright then posted very flimsy evidence to support his claim on his blog, which is now pulled. This move confused the cryptography community, because it used information that could be searched on Google, to support Wright. Wright promised to provide better evidence, by moving Bitcoin from one of the early blocks of mined Bitcoin. These are known to belong to Satoshi Nakamoto, and the Bitcoin have not been used since they were mined. Wright’s post explaining why he stopped being anonymous, and offer to post new evidence accompanied by independently verifiable documents were also removed from his web site. https://twitter.com/gavinandresen/status/727606351711571968 Now, Craig Wright backed away from providing strong evidence that would prove that he was Satoshi Nakamoto. Craig Wright published a statement on his blog explaining the reasons for not providing the extraordinary evidence he had promised. Wright explained that he did not have the courage to face a constant stream of allegations and questions about his identity. This leaves many questions unanswered, but mostly brings back the status quo, that the identity of Bitcoin’s creator is unknown. His statement apologised to Jon Matonis and Gavin Andresen, two experts in the field that he had managed to convince. Matonis reacted to the post on Twitter, accepting that the coins from the early blocks will not be moved, but neither will there be another Satoshi Nakamoto. https://twitter.com/jonmatonis/status/728168542709878784 Gavin Andresen, publicly supported Wright’s claims of being Nakamoto, after seeing the technical demonstration by Wright in a hotel room. Andresen is an active Bitcoin Developer, and had corresponded at length with Nakamoto when he had been active in the Bitcoin community. Andresen tweeted out the perfect reaction to the development of Wright backing away from providing clinching evidence after taking so much trouble to prove his secret identity. At least, Andresen seems to have had some closure on the topic. https://twitter.com/gavinandresen/status/728306636847222786