In his latest web log postal service, Craig Wright claimed that he (as Satoshi Nakamoto) never wanted WikiLeaks to use Bitcoin. On March 31st he wrote:

"I'm non the anarchist they desire, nor have I ever been anything like one. Yous see, I didn't desire WikiLeaks to utilise Bitcoin because I didn't like what they stood for."

However, publicly bachelor web links from July 2011 advise this was not the case. In the wake of PayPal'south decision to freeze the accounts of the non-turn a profit WikiLeaks in 2010, Wright told commenters on his commodity in The Conversation that it was the foundation'south own fault for not using Bitcoin as a donation method. Wright wrote in the comments section:

"If y'all desire to wait at anything to arraign, look to WL'south stupidity in selecting PayPal as a provider over BitCoin and others like them when PayPal is known to shy abroad from controversy."

The posts from 2011 lack the aforementioned targeted criticism of WikiLeaks that narrate Wright's electric current blog. Wright'due south commodity defends PayPal confronting the prospect of a cyber-assail from Anonymous and LulzSec, merely simply because he thought it was WikiLeaks' own mistake for not using Bitcoin. He claimed:

"Basically, I know of over 50 alternatives to PayPal. Some are close to PayPal in size and we also have to remember that WikiLeaks was the site that selected PayPal and not i of the alternatives. WL could have selected BitCoin, simply it did non."

Craig Wright loves the law

Recently, Wright said that the law is coming for Bitcoin, and that anyone who wishes to utilize it anonymously will be punished in the end. That'due south a long manner from his recommendation that WikiLeaks use the currency precisely to maintain their anonymity. Wright stated in 2011:

"Flake Coin (Chip Money) is a digital currency. Bit Coin offers a full peer-to-peer currency solution. P2P transfer of funds is bachelor using methods that tin even be untraceable. They're a means (sic) using this technology to transfer funds that cannot exist intercepted or stopped."

Craig Wright remains embroiled in a potential multi-billion dollar lawsuit with the family of erstwhile computer forensics proficient, Dave Kleiman. The ongoing trial in Florida has been held upwards numerous times, partly by Wright's inability to provide straightforward answers to the courtroom.