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What would be the problem if he were Satoshi Nakamoto? He'd rather deserve the Nobel prize.

>What would be the problem if he were Satoshi Nakamoto?

From the article:

"Guardian Australia understands the raids are not related to the claims that Wright may have been involved in the creation of bitcoin, but are related to an Australian Tax Office investigation."

I think the possible reason for raiding him is to catch up on tax obligations from having accrued so much undeclared wealth.

I don't know if there are other crimes for which they intend to charge him, but that's the first one that pops to mind.

Also, they've obviously had meetings in advance of "what do we do if we determine the identity of Satoshi", because this raid was FAST.

The person(s) who leaked the documents to the media, could also have leaked them to the Australian authorities.

You don't have to pay taxes on capital gains until you sell the asset. Satoshi hasn't sold his hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin, they're just sitting there on the blockchain where they were mined.

Unless Australian tax law considers Bitcoin a currency.

It doesn't

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