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Wednesday, 12/09/2015 1:04:49 PM

Wednesday, December 09, 2015 1:04:49 PM

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Australian police raid Sydney home of reported bitcoin creator

Australian Federal Police raided the Sydney home on Wednesday of a man named by Wired magazine as the probable creator of cryptocurrency bitcoin, a Reuters witness said.

The property is registered under the Australian electoral role to Craig Steven Wright, whom Wired outed as the likely real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous figure that first released bitcoin's code in 2009.

More than a dozen federal police officers entered the house, on Sydney's north shore, on Wednesday after locksmiths broke open the door. When asked what they were doing, one officer told a Reuters reporter that they were "clearing the house".

The Australian Federal Police said in a statement that the officers' "presence at Mr. Wright's property is not associated with the media reporting overnight about bitcoins".

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/08/australian-police-raid-sydney-home-of-reported-bitcoin-creator.html

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