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by mmortal03 3844 days ago
If Wright wanted to make it look like he was Satoshi, it would seem a bit absurd for him to try to claim that he would no longer be able to provide financial accommodation to Hotwire due to losing a substantial sum of money because of the Mt. Gox collapse (given that Satoshi is assumed to hold a lot more, and also because Satoshi wouldn't have been so stupid as to store such a large sum there, not being in control of the private keys):

"Hotwire hit problems in April of last year when it failed to receive another expected tax rebate worth millions of dollars, killing its cash flow. McGrath Nicol wrote to creditors in May 2014:

"The Directors have attributed the failure of the Company to:

– delays in receiving the $3.1 million GST refund for the September 2013 quarter; and

– Dr Wright, as the major shareholder no longer being able to provide financial accommodation to the Company due to the collapse of the Mount Gox Bitcoin registry where we understand Dr Wright had a significant exposure.""

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/revealed-the-ato-hit-suspe...