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In January 2015, Craig Wright was facing financial ruin, with the Australian Taxation Office having uncovered a potentially criminal operation involving his raft of companies. Six months later, he was sitting pretty, having signed a bailout deal that settled his tax affairs and afforded him a dream job in England. Somehow, Wright had turned it around. In truth, Wright had accepted a ticking time bomb. The deal that saved him was predicated on one very important premise: that he was Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. Wright may have fooled his backers, but fooling the public would be a far harder task... especially as it was nothing but a high-stakes con. In Volume II of Faketoshi: Fraud, Lies and the Battle for Bitcoin's Soul, Mark Hunter and Arthur van Pelt continue their definitive account of Craig Wright's fraudulent exploits, covering his announcement on the world stage as Satoshi Nakamoto, the disastrous public proof session that followed and the $600 billion court case that revealed for the first time the true extent of Wright's mammoth swindle.

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Mark Hunter is an author and ghostwriter with twenty years of experience in the literary world. He has ghostwritten for a very eclectic range of clients, from members of the Kuwaiti royal family to self-made millionaires, and has worked as a writing workshop leader in British theatres. He became interested in the cryptocurrency world in 2017 and has been writing for blockchain projects and crypto news websites ever since. In 2023, he published Ultimate Catastrophe: How MtGox Lost Half a Billion Dollars and Nearly Killed Bitcoin, the first book covering the 2014 collapse of Bitcoin exchange MtGox. Mark lives in Harrogate, England, with his wife and two children. Arthur van Pelt learned about Bitcoin in 2012 and now works as a Bitcoin consultant. Having first heard about Craig Wright in 2015, Arthur became more interested in his activities in 2019 and soon began mapping out the depth and breadth of Wright's operations to an ever-increasing audience through online channels, including Medium and X. He is now regarded as the most knowledgeable and dedicated Craig Wright debunker on the planet. Arthur lives in the Netherlands with his two children.

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