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Check out Economist's write up. Lots of detail. Not just the 5 minute video.

http://www.economist.com/news/briefings/21698061-craig-steve...

HN sub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609708

All that's needed is a single signature. Everything about this is absurd. It just seems he's clearly exploiting this to gain some fame to promote his company.

Lots of text. Where's the signature?

Here: http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif...

I read that. He doesn't give the message that is signed (just the digest and a screen shot of a small portion of the file). Without the actual data, this can't be verified.

IFdyaWdodCwgaXQgaXMgbm90IHRoZSBzYW1lIGFzIGlmIEkgc2lnbiBDcmFpZyBXcmlnaHQsIFNhdG9zaGkuCgo=

> 'IFdyaWdodCwgaXQgaXMgbm90IHRoZSBzYW1lIGFzIGlmIEkgc2lnbiBDcmFpZyBXcmlnaHQsIFNhdG9zaGkuCgo='.decode('base64')

> ' Wright, it is not the same as if I sign Craig Wright, Satoshi.\n\n'

That's just a base64 encoded message.

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