Who is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto? Does it even matter?

Australian Craig Wright could be the mysterious Bitcoin creator. But the same thing has been said about others before - the currency is bigger than one person

Craig Wright, an Australian academic, might be the secret creator of cryptocurrency bitcoin, unmasked by an anonymous hacker after seven years in the shadows. Or he might be the target - maybe even the perpetrator - of one of the most meticulous hoaxes of the internet age.

And yet, amazingly, whichever is true, the result is likely to have only the smallest effect on the future of bitcoin. The currency is now bigger than its creator, who hasn't been openly involved since 2010, and decentralised governance is built into the very core of bitcoin, often to a fault.