He said he invented Bitcoin.
He was a complete fraud.
Faketoshi: Fraud, Lies and the Battle for Bitcoin’s Soul is the definitive account of Craig Wright’s stranger-than-fiction attempt to be recognised as Satoshi Nakamoto. Started as a podcast, now told in three volumes.
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In 2016, a man stepped forward claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Backed by some of the deepest pockets in tech, he spent the next eight years trying to prove it with fake wallets, PR stunts and lawsuits worth more than a trillion dollars.
But he wasn’t Satoshi. He was an Australian IT consultant called Craig Wright who tried to pull off one of the most audacious frauds in British legal history.
The Books
Volume I
Where the con began.
Learn about Craig Wright’s ever-changing Bitcoin creation story and his battle with the Australian Taxation Office, which led him to don the Satoshi mask to escape financial ruin and a possible prison sentence.
Along the way, Wright faked multi-million-dollar Bitcoin deals with his own companies, NASA, a Saudi banking giant and a porn baron; forged, then disowned, evidence of everything from Seychelles trusts to stolen assets; “lost” some of the most expensive supercomputers in the world; and much, much more.
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Volume II
Craig Wright’s Satoshi claim hits the world stage, followed by a disastrous public proof and a $600 billion court case that exposes his tax fraud…and much more.
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Volume III
The final act.
Craig Wright takes his Satoshi claim to the British courts, and the series of trials that follow expose him as the most prolific evidence forger in British legal history.
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The complete story
The Faketoshi Trilogy Box Set
The complete Faketoshi story in one spectacular set: ten years of fraud, from the first lie to the last.
Includes Volumes I, II and III in paperback.
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The authors
Mark Hunter
Mark is an author and ghostwriter who has worked in the blockchain/crypto sector since 2017. He is also the author of Ultimate Catastrophe – How MtGox Lost Half a Billion Dollars and Nearly Killed Bitcoin, the first book to tell the full story of the rise and fall of Bitcoin exchange MtGox.
Arthur van Pelt
Arthur is a Bitcoin consultant who began mapping out the depth and breadth of Wright’s illegal operations in 2019, becoming renowned as the world’s foremost Craig Wright critic.