Dr Craig Steven Wright, the Australian named as the alleged creator of bitcoin, runs a company that spent tens of millions building the fastest computer in the Southern Hemisphere.
And it was working on blockchain technology — the software that underpins bitcoin.
His company was in the process of commercialising work on “smart contracts” and other applications using the blockchain when he disappeared.
He was also trying to revive another bitcoin company he set up that had fallen into administration, according to documents uncovered by Business Insider.
Dr Wright, an unknown Australian computer science and cyber security entrepreneur, was this week named by Wired and Gizmodo as the potential anonymous creator of bitcoin.
