Experts in virtual coins skeptical about bitcoin inventor – Yahoo Finance Spain

The claim of paternity bitcoin by Australian Craig Wright raises some skepticism within the community of virtual coins, which met on Monday in New York <. / p>

“I do not think so. I am skeptical,” he told AFP Catheryne Nicholson, leader of BlockCypher, at the end of his presentation on Consensus 2016, a large gathering of virtual coins which takes place until Wednesday near Times Square, in New York.

Craig Wright provided the BBC, the Economist and the magazine GQ coins known to be solely in the hands of the creator of bitcoin to prove that he was the inventor.

digitally signed messages using cryptographic keys created in the first days after the entry into force of this virtual currency.

despite this demonstration, doubts and remain skeptical in the world of digital currencies.

“There is a simple way to prove their identity and show the keys match point. You can do a very succinct way, but still has not. Why?” He asks Catheryne Nicholson, summing up the general feeling.

Wright supplied keys created during the early days of the development of this virtual currency, but it remains to prove that this is the first.

“Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto (the inventor of bitcoin) was not a person but a group of people, “said Jason Park, the South Korean start-up Korbit.

“In view of the ‘evidence’ that he presented, I think that is part of the group that was behind the bitcoin, but can not say that was the only” says Matthieu Riou, cofounder of BlockCypher.

Conceived as a digital currency to compete with the classic money, bitcoin evolved a lot and the technology behind its success -the Blockchain- is highly sought after.

the major world banks and large financial institutions working for several months to see if the bitcoin can facilitate and reduce transaction costs.

“the bitcoin has already evolved independently of the identity of its creator,” says Jeffrey Wallis , whose firm SunGard, adviser to and finances the “Fintech”.

Discovering the identity of its inventor is no longer as important as it might have a few years ago, argues Brian Kelly, fondador the eponymous background.

Jason Park explains that bitcoin is managed from years by a community of people who have separately created barriers and protection systems to ensure safety.

“Although (Craig Wright) was the creator of bitcoin, does not have the secret code to compromise the system” says Park

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