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Re:Reported Bitcoin 'founder' Craig Wright's home raided by ... by nthitz on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @12:15AM (#10702042)
gwern is responding on this /r/bitcoin thread https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3vzgnd/bitcoins_cr...
Re:Reported Bitcoin 'founder' Craig Wright's home raided by ... by Mtinie on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @12:29AM (#10702079)
Thanks for the link. The timing is suspicious, but it's certainly plausible that while the ATO's actions aren't related to an investigation into Wright's bitcoin holdings, that the Wired article acted as a trigger to move up the timeline of the raid.

If that's what happened perhaps they were moving quickly to preserve evidence of whatever else they were investigating in advance of the hordes of people on their way to break into the house and steal whatever computer hardware they could find hoping to gain access to the "Satoshi's Stash" bitcoins.

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EDIT: Too funny... I posted this and then saw another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10702038) by imron (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=imron) posted before mine that described almost the exact same conclusion (nearly word for word). Props to them for beating me to the punch!

Re:Reported Bitcoin 'founder' Craig Wright's home raided by ... by imron on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @12:59AM (#10702168)
> nearly word for word)

Great minds think alike! ;-)

Re:Reported Bitcoin 'founder' Craig Wright's home raided by ... by lmm on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @05:26AM (#10702889)
Does that mean we now know that gwern isn't Wright?