Daily Bitcoin: Soaring to 400 or Finding the True Identity of the Inventor

The price of Bitcoin soared in the Asian session on Wednesday (December 9), with the US dollar value surging to 420.

There are reports that the inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, may be an Australian.

The quotes released by BITSTAMP showed that Bitcoin/US dollar (XBT/USD) basically fluctuated between 390-395 yesterday, and soared to 420 in the Asian session of this trading day.

(Bitcoin/USD time-sharing chart source: Bloomberg, FX168 Financial Network)

The quotes released by KRAKEN showed that Bitcoin/Euro (XBT/EUR) fluctuated in the 360-365 range yesterday, and soared to the 380 level in the Asian session of this trading day.

(Bitcoin/Euro time-sharing chart source: Bloomberg, FX168 Financial Network)

The quotes released by Huobi.com show that Bitcoin/RMB traded moderately at the 2600 level yesterday, and soared to around 2765 in the Asian session of this trading day.

(Bitcoin/RMB 30-minute chart source: Huobi.com)

In the industry, "Satoshi Nakamoto", who has always been considered the inventor of Bitcoin, may be a 44-year-old Australian named Craig Steven Wright.

Last week, foreign media WIRED found some strong clues to infer that Craig Steven Wright is "Satoshi Nakamoto", although Craig Steven Wright has never appeared on the list of "hunting clubs looking for Satoshi Nakamoto".

WIRED believes that the evidence shows that either Craig Steven Wright invented Bitcoin, or Craig Steven Wright's "genius deception" made us believe that he is "Satoshi Nakamoto".

The first major clue came in mid-November, when an anonymous person close to Wright provided documents to an independent security researcher named Gwern Branwen that pointed to a direct connection between Satoshi Nakamoto and Craig Steven Wright.

In August before the release of the Bitcoin white paper in November 2008, Craig Steven Wright wrote on his blog that he would publish a "cryptocurrency paper." There were three such preview blogs.

In addition to the three blog announcements, a series of emails, photocopies and accounting books also seem to point to a connection between the two.