Another Bitcoin co-founder claimant appears, purports to own 250,000 BTC

The title of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator(s), is in contention for the umpteenth time.

This time around, a German entrepreneur and former DJ going by "Jörg Molt" has laid claim to the Nakamoto name, telling attendees to a crypto industry event that he is co-creator of Bitcoin and owns 250,000 coins.

The pseudonymous coder, after all, created a decentralized network that was and still is revolutionary, acting as both an ultra-secure transaction settlement layer and as a form of scarce and non-sovereign digital money; Bitcoin solved the barriers that previous attempts at non-sovereign digital money failed to jump over.

It should come as no surprise then that many have tried to claim ownership of the mystique of Nakamoto after the Bitcoin creator suddenly fell off the map, abdicating leadership of the then-nascent project to an early adopter.

The thing is, all of the claimants to the Satoshi Nakamoto name have failed to decisively prove that they are a co-creator or the creator of Bitcoin, providing often flimsy evidence and utilizing some form of mental gymnastics to try and convince the world of their legitimacy.

Molt has claimed to own 250,000 BTC, worth around $2.3 billion at the current Bitcoin price of $9,300.

While Molt seemingly flew under the radar for most of the conference, Kenneth Bosak, a prominent cryptocurrency commentator, decided to take action on Oct. 31st. On that day, Bosak posted a video of him confronting Molt, calling him a "Scammer" and attempting to profile him at one of the events of the week, World Crypto Con.

"I have heard from others that he claims to be the founder of Bitcoin and has thousands of BTC. A LIE.".

According to Seiche's translation of the six-minute YouTube video, the ex-wife said that Molt is a debtor to at least six people, is not paying alimony for their two kids, and didn't even own a computer when Bitcoin's whitepaper was released 11 years ago.

As Samson Mow, the CSO of Bitcoin development firm Blockstream, remarked, Molt's little run-in with Bosak comes as Craig Wright, the Australian cryptographer that has also claimed to be a creator of Bitcoin, failed to pay Ira Kleiman, the brother of an early Bitcoin adopter wrapped up in more Satoshi claimant disputes, hundreds of thousands of Satoshi's coins.