The police raids in Australia came hours after Wired magazine and technology website Gizmodo published articles saying that their investigations showed Wright, an entrepreneur and academic, was most probably the secretive bitcoin creator.

Wright is the chief executive of Australian-registered DeMorgan Ltd, which he describes on his Linkedin page as „a pre-IPO Australian listed company focused on alternative currency“.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) said in a statement that the officers‘ „presence at Mr. Wright‘s property is not associated with the media reporting overnight about bitcoins“.