Earlier today Craig Wright, an Australian entrepreneur, penned a post claiming he was the original inventor of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. The BBC reported that it had verified the claims and information was released in other respectable big-name titles, like The Economist. However, since those reports, and our own, serious doubt has been cast across the Web on the claims. Prompted by reports in December of Wright apparently trying to take credit for creating Bitcoin, it’s now being widely reported that the proof he offered up in a blog post doesn’t verify his claims. Reddit and Hacker News users, as is often…

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