With the changing of the seasons comes yet another attempt by reputable media outlets to identify the creator of bitcoin, whose rapid growth as a digital asset and payment system in recent years has spawned cryptocurrency-specific practice groups at several Am Law 100 firms.

At the heart of the latest inquiry into the roots of the world’s most popular decentralized currency is Andrew Sommer, a tax partner in Sydney at Clayton Utz, one of Australia’s leading independent law firms. Sommer’s name is on records obtained by Wired and Gizmodo that appear to show Australian academic, economist and cryptographer Craig Wright as the first man behind bitcoin.

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