Philadelphia Entrepreneur Uses Billboard to Call Out Craig Wright

Drew Mailen
Co.Invent
Published in
2 min readSep 13, 2019

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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 09, 2019 — (via BountyBase) — The organizer behind Philadelphia’s biggest blockchain conference is using a city billboard in one of the most highly-trafficked areas to call out Craig Wright as a fraud.

Coinvention founder Alex Skags wants Philadelphia’s blockchain community to know the truth behind Craig Wright. Wright is known for desperately trying to prove his identity as the “real” creator behind Bitcoin. However, no one else seems to be buying Wright’s story.

Over the last year, Wright has been caught in a reputation war and has made several court appearances in an effort to validate himself as Bitcoin’s founder. The actual identity of Bitcoin’s true founder has been anonymous since Bitcoin was created. There have been several (unsuccessful attempts) by random people trying to claim they are Bitcoin’s founder. Yet, Wright’s attempts have garnered the most attention.

Skags feels as though the cryptocurrency and blockchain community deserves better and that if Wright was the actual creator, he would have offered more technical proof. Instead, the only thing Wright is gaining is attention.

“He could provide more technical proof- adding something on Satoshi’s Bitcoin Talk Forum account, sending money from one of Satoshi’s wallets, etc,”…

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