Has the mysterious inventor of the bitcoin and blockchain technologies finally been identified?

On Tuesday, both Wired.com and Gizmodo.com.au published lengthy investigative pieces in which they claim that 44-year-old Australian academic Craig Steven Wright Ipictured) is the real-life figure behind Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous entity that gave birth to the bitcoin phenomenon in 2009.

This isn’t the first time that media bloodhounds have claimed to have run the elusive Nakamoto to ground. The most notorious example of these was Newsweek’s 2014 ‘scoop’ that incorrectly fingered a Japanese-American born with the same name who ultimately denied having anything to do with cryptocurrency, let alone bitcoin.

Clearly not wishing to join Newsweek in the media hall of shame, Wired does allow for the possibility that Wright is “a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe” that he’s Nakamoto. But both Wired and Gizmodo have amassed a sufficiently large body of evidence to suggest they had justification for clicking ‘publish.’