Faketoshi: The Complete Trilogy

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PLEASE NOTE: All box sets are printed and dispatched from the UK.

In 2011, Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, dropped off the radar, leaving over a million bitcoins untouched. Four years later, ‘Satoshi’ resurfaced in the guise of an Australian IT security consultant named Craig Wright, who embarked on a campaign to publicly establish his legacy. Backed by the deep pockets of billionaire casino magnate Calvin Ayre, Wright’s efforts soon escalated from a PR reveal to a multi-million-dollar legal campaign with two core aims: to be formally recognised as Bitcoin’s creator and rake in the hundreds of billions of dollars in damages and licenses that would come his way if he won.

There was just one problem. He was a complete fraud.

Wright’s attempted coup, which he dreamed up in 2014 as a means of escaping a tax fraud investigation in Australia, saw him try to not just steal unfathomable wealth and the credit for creating Bitcoin, but also imprison his critics and those who actually helped create and maintain the protocol. What he ended up with was something very different: a suspended prison sentence, over $150 million owed in court judgments and a reputation as the most prolific evidence forger in British legal history.

Across three volumes, Faketoshi tells the story of Craig Wright’s brazen effort to cheat his way to gargantuan sums of money and global adulation. Taking in Bletchley Park codebreakers, Venezuelan child traffickers, $600 billion lawsuits, the world’s biggest heist and much, much more, Wright’s Satoshi scam represents the most audacious cosplay ever attempted, one that will never be matched in scale, outlandishness or stupidity.