1 00:00:00,00 --> 00:00:05,600 My name is Craig Wright and I'm about to demonstrate assigning of a message. 2 00:00:05,700 --> 00:00:13,500 with the public key that is associated with the first transaction ever done in Bitcoin 3 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,800 And who does the world think did that first transaction? 4 00:00:16,900 --> 00:00:19,500 What's the name associated with that first transaction? 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,000 The moniker is Satoshi Nakamoto 6 00:00:23,100 --> 00:00:26,600 So you are going to show me that Satoshi Nakamoto is you? 7 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:28,700 Yes. 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:35,300 Some people will believe some people won't, and to tell you the truth I don't really care. 9 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:41,000 But you can say hand on heart to me I am Satoshi Nakamoto? 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,600 I was the main part of it other people helped me. 11 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:50,700 Why did you feel that you had to come out or why did you feel that you had to keep secret for so long? 12 00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:55,400 I would prefer to be secret now. 13 00:00:55,500 --> 00:00:57,200 I don't think I should have to be out there. 14 00:00:57,300 --> 00:01:03,700 There is nothing owed to the world where I have to come out and say I am X, I am Y. 15 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,500 No one needs to do that. 16 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:11,400 It is my right not to say I did something. 17 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:14,000 If I released a paper that actually benefits people 18 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:17,100 why do I have to actually take credit for it? 19 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:19,200 Why do I? 20 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,400 Wouldn't you be proud to be known as Satoshi Nakamoto? 21 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:26,600 Yes, but that doesn't mean I have to bound around in front of TV cameras. 22 00:01:28,100 --> 00:01:31,500 You could say you've invented something amazing and that you want to 23 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:35,500 say I am the man who invented this. 24 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,300 I want to work. I want to keep doing what I'm doing and that's what I'm going to do. 25 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:44,200 I don't work and invent and write papers and code 26 00:01:44,300 --> 00:01:46,400 by coming in front of TVs. 27 00:01:46,500 --> 00:01:52,300 I don't want money, I don't want fame, I don't want adoration. I just want to be left alone. 28 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,200 Of the stories that came out was that you were under investigation 29 00:01:57,300 --> 00:02:00,700 by the Australian tax authorities. Was that true? 30 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:04,800 No. I have companies that are under audit. 31 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:09,700 the reason for that is that we have told the ATO everything. 32 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,300 we have told them about the tax issues and implications. 33 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:16,100 We actually put in everything wiht the auditors. 34 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,700 We were using KPMG and a number of tax lawyers at the time. 35 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:25,100 and we had an internal audit and we supplied that to the tax office 36 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,700 so we could pay the correct amount of tax. 37 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:29,800 And because no one understands Bitcoin very well 38 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:33,700 and no one understands the timing or anything like that 39 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,100 then it's still an ongoing matter. 40 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:39,400 So we have lawyers negotiating how much tax I owe. 41 00:02:40,100 --> 00:02:43,400 Because people assuming Satoshi Nakamoto must be fabulously rich. 42 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:46,600 The inventor of Bitcoin must have vast stores of Bitcoin 43 00:02:46,700 --> 00:02:47,900 and therefore be incredibly rich. 44 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:51,300 What matters isn't how much I have. 45 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:53,100 It's when I use it. 46 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:58,600 Because I've got an asset class that has gone up in value 47 00:02:58,700 --> 00:03:01,200 doesn't mean I pay tax on it now. 48 00:03:01,300 --> 00:03:05,300 I pay tax only when it's deployed only on the bits that are deployed. 49 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:06,200 No more. 50 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:09,600 And are you planning to deploy as you put any of that Bitcoin? 51 00:03:09,700 --> 00:03:14,200 I've deployed enough and I'm happy where I am. 52 00:03:14,300 --> 00:03:19,100 I'm not looking for money. And this is the one comment I want to make to people. 53 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,900 I don't want money, I don't want help 54 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,000 And I'm categorically going to say this. 55 00:03:25,100 --> 00:03:29,100 And I'm making sure that things are put in place with lawyers and whatever else. 56 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:33,000 If anyone puts me up for an award or anything like that 57 00:03:33,100 --> 00:03:37,600 I will never, ever, accept a cent, ever. 58 00:03:37,700 --> 00:03:42,000 If you put me in for a Nobel prize, if you put me in for an ACM touring medal 59 00:03:42,100 --> 00:03:46,900 If you put me up for some honour I will never accept a cent from any of you for anything. 60 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:56,400 Why have you decided to identify yourself as Satoshi Nakamoto? 61 00:03:56,500 --> 00:03:57,600 I didn't decide. 62 00:03:57,700 --> 00:04:00,400 I had people decide this matter for me. 63 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:03,700 and they're making life difficult not for me 64 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,000 but my friends, my family, my staff. 65 00:04:07,100 --> 00:04:11,600 I have staff here in London I have staff overseas 66 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:13,700 and they want to be private. 67 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,900 They don't want all of this to affect them. 68 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,200 And I don't want any of them to be impacted by this. 69 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:22,400 None of it's true. 70 00:04:22,500 --> 00:04:25,200 There are lots of stories out there that have been made up. 71 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,600 And I don't like it hurting those people I care about. 72 00:04:30,700 --> 00:04:33,600 So I am going to this thing only once. And once only. 73 00:04:33,700 --> 00:04:38,100 I am going to come in front of a camera once. 74 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:47,500 And I will never, ever, be on the camera ever again for any TV station or any media, ever.