04 Nov 2016 Appointmentof Mr Stefan Raymond Matthews as a director on 3 November 2016

"....One of the most helpful individuals was Stefan Matthews. He pointed me in the direction of people from Wright’s personal life, and sent me a typed history of his association with the man who would be Satoshi. Matthews noted that, when he signed the deal with MacGregor, Wright didn’t have a feasible business plan for any of his companies. The Wrights’ financial situation was dire. They couldn’t pay their staff and a number had already left.6 Pedersen and some others had stayed on without pay; Wright owed his lawyers $1 million. ..."

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The Satoshi afaire.
Andrew O’Hagan
30 June 2016

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair

"...MacGregor instructed Matthews to be in Sydney on 24 June 2015, when a final appraisal of the businesses was undertaken and a draft arrangement negotiated for nTrust ‘to acquire the intellectual property and the companies themselves’".

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The Satoshi afaire.
Andrew O’Hagan
30 June 2016

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair

"Matthews told me about a meeting at the Bondi Iceberg Club in Sydney that Wright had with Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, now serving two life sentences. Silk Road used bitcoin to trade all kinds of contraband items because the transactions could be made anonymously.
Wright later confirmed that this meeting took place, but said only that Ulbricht was full of himself and they didn’t discuss bitcoin. Matthews seemed to think this was unlikely. He
wondered whether Kleiman had had more to do with Ulbricht; other sources suggested the
same."

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The Satoshi afaire.
Andrew O’Hagan
30 June 2016

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair

"... Matthews told me. ‘It will be chatter to do with illegal stuff that he and Dave were doing in Costa Rica – particularly around Costa Rican casinos where they got $23 million of income. And you don’t get paid that amount just for doing a security review …
He mined all those bitcoins himself using equipment that he bought with money that he got from Costa Rica.’ Again: why was Matthews saying this? It was obvious to me that Wright was going to have a problem telling the full story, whatever it was. I wasn’t even sure he’d told the full story to his wife, but perhaps he had, because she referred, several times, to the fact that there were things that she just couldn’t tell me. ‘They’ll come after us,’ she said, in a state of high emotion. ‘They’ll destroy us.’ Matthews said he didn’t know what that was about. He did tell me something he said he had told MacGregor when MacGregor asked him what he was getting out of the deal. ‘Absolutely nothing,’ Matthews said. ‘I get what I get paid by Calvin. Calvin is the only allegiance I have, then and now.’"

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The Satoshi afaire.
Andrew O’Hagan
30 June 2016

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair

"Matthews said, ‘and I’ve been having some sledgehammer conversations with Craig. I said to him: “Time for straight answers on this one, my friend. How many coins are left under the control of the Seychelles trust? And don’t tell me you don’t know because you’re a grown man, and don’t lie to me.” And his answer was 100,000. I know that 650,000 was taken out to fund all the research and development stuff. And 350,000 is on Dave’s hard drive. “Why has Dave got 350,000 of your coins on his encrypted hard drive?” Because he gave them to him. They’re Dave’s. Those wallets are encrypted on his hard drive, with three or four keys to his trust. Now, why did Dave die in squalor?’"

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The Satoshi afaire.
Andrew O’Hagan
30 June 2016

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair

"‘And you don’t think Dave mined coins himself?’

"‘Of course he did. No doubt.
(Answer from Stefan Matthews)
But how many? Who knows … We know they ran a business together based in Florida. They did stuff for contractors. We know that they lost money jointly in Liberty Reserve. And they would both have lost money in Mt Gox."

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The Satoshi afaire.
Andrew O’Hagan
30 June 2016

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair

"As I was paying the bill, Matthews reared up. ‘You know Craig has gone out and bought himself some cars? One hundred and eighty thousand dollars’ worth of cars.’ (When I checked this with Wright he said the cars were leased.) ‘One of them stands out like the dog’s balls in the proverbial moonlight, and this is from the man we’re trying to keep fucking secret. How many custom BMW i8s are going around London? He’s spending every fucking penny that we’ve paid him … Does he think this is just a game? You know, these guys have gone from being backyard scrappers and they’ve suddenly found themselves in a high-stakes poker game.’ Matthews said he wouldn’t take any rubbish from the Wrights, and that they’d end up on a plane back to Australia and jail if they didn’t fulfil their end of the bargain, to reveal Satoshi. ‘The people that I work with are capable of deciding this was a $30 million bad decision and write it off,’ he said. I thought this a curiously revealing line, and wondered again just how he expected me to use such information".

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Andrew O’Hagan
30 June 2016

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair

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The Satoshi afaire.
Andrew O’Hagan
30 June 2016

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair

The proof session.

"There were long silences. ‘He was on the edge,’ MacGregor said. Matthews was practically holding his breath. He didn’t want to say too much out loud, so he texted MacGregor. The text said: ‘He should call Ramona.’ While MacGregor was out of the room Wright phoned his wife, and she said: ‘Do it.’ Everyone waited with bated breath as Wright used the new laptop to open the Satoshi wallet and set about signing a new message to Andresen. It failed. It wouldn’t verify. He tried it again and again, until Andresen remembered that Wright hadn’t typed ‘CSW’
at the end of the message the way he had in the original, the one he was seeking to verify.
When he put ‘CSW’ at the end of his message to Gavin it said: ‘Verified’. Wright had demonstrated, on a brand-new laptop, that he held Satoshi’s private key. They stood up and
shook hands and Gavin thanked him for all he had done. There were tears in Wright’s eyes.
‘His voice was breaking,’ MacGregor told me. ‘Gavin could see he was going though something.’ Both MacGregor and Matthews later said that Wright was turned inside out by the session. ‘I didn’t want to just put him in a taxi,’ MacGregor said. Andresen was wiped out, so he went to get some fish and chips, and then headed to bed. ‘Craig broke down,’ MacGregor told me. ‘He said he thought he’d never have to do this. He said he never knew how to trust people in his life.’ Wright and Matthews and MacGregor went off to find a bottle of wine. ‘He was semi-apologising for being a pain in the ass,’ MacGregor told me, ‘but I understood more than ever, at that point, how hard the whole thing was for him.’

When I asked Andresen if he thought ending the Satoshi mystery might be good for the
technology, he wasn’t sure. ‘On one hand,’ he said, ‘having a mysterious founder is a great
creation myth. People love a creation myth. Knowing the real story might make bitcoin less
interesting to people. On the other hand, money is supposed to be boring – something that
“just works”, used by most people without understanding how or why it works. I’m excited to see how Craig contributes to making bitcoin work even better than it does today.’ .."

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The Satoshi afaire.
Andrew O’Hagan
30 June 2016

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affair

Stefan Matthews
https://www.linkedin.com/in/turkeychop/

nChain Holdings Ltd, Chief Executive Officer
jul. de 2015 – dic. de 2017
Antigua and Barbuda
Blockchain research and intellectual property holding company


Chief Information Officer Centrebet Limited
2001 – 2011
Sydney, Australia
ASX listed online sportsbook, casino games and poker operator, licensed in Australia, UK, Malta and Curacao.


Chief Technology Officer Tyche Consulting
sept. de 2011 – abr. de 2015
London, United Kingdom and Manila, Philippines
Global technology group providing online entertainment and gaming solutions

Mr. Matthews has significant senior management and executive leadership experience totalling more than 30 years in the technology and on-line services sector, where he has been responsible for operations in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Spain, Malta and the United Kingdom at the levels of chief information officer, chief technology officer and chief executive officer. He has been actively involved in several initial public offerings (Australia and the United States) and multiple mergers and acquisitions.

In 2015, Mr. Matthews was a founder, and is currently the chairman, of the nChain Group, known for global leadership in blockchain and Bitcoin research. BMG, a division of the nChain Group, has a significant investment in Bitcoin BCH mining, operating a diversified fleet in multiple locations.

Mr. Matthews holds a bachelor of financial administration degree and an MBA (international business) from the University of New England.

https://www.taal.com/team/