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Comment by emmet | Hacker News Reader

Is this a suicide note?

How is this not the first thought people had? Poor guy, with a lot of signs of mental instability. The amount of animosity people have had towards him on HN (and elsewhere) isn't tempered by how obviously imbalanced he is. I think it's because of the disproportionate amount of media attention he's received for something he didn't earn.

I did not expect to be the first one to bring it up. People are being very clinical here.

To be fair to people here, we're discussing a new message by a person who is widely perceived to be running some type of scam. I hadn't considered the more serious subtext of this message but given the history here you have to consider that that might have been intentional to try to engender sympathy.

The internet loves to shoot first and ask questions later, but there's some things we need to be a little more compassionate about. I understand it's in his MO to pull a trick like this, but let's at least see that he's ok before treating it as such.

Yeah, but it still sounds like a legitimate suicide note and some semblance of worry makes sense.. I understand the desire fore fairness, but this was just posted without much followup context. Have a bit of heart for a second.

If this whole story is the a result of a mental health issue, well - mental health is a serious mother fucker.

> it still sounds like a legitimate suicide note

"Sounds". Let's not forget the guy's a con man.

This is the clearest analysis of the situation. He is mentally unstable and needs help, not a media spotlight.

He is also on the run from some major legal issues here is Australia so it wouldn't surprise me at all. I just hope that the people that know his whereabouts can help him, however poor his actions he needs all the mental help he can get.

One possible explanation to the whole thing not being considered so much is that he has the delusion of being Satoshi and might be trying to prove it and failing to understand why he can't.

Given his character and previous form I would be more inclined to see it as another false trail, perhaps a prelude to faking his own death to avoid his tax problems.

It does make me feel like Ian Murdock tweets a little. I find the whole Satoshi comedy a bit sad but not to the point where he would quit earth. Even in the case he made himself suffer. Hope it's just words so far.

Gosh it certainly reads like one. Same text is hosted at his root...

http://www.drcraigwright.net/

Why is it a JPG, is there a hidden message encoded in it or something?

Given that the entire source of his main website is

my first guess would be that he wanted to delete basically everything and leave a static message but didn't want to figure out how to do that minimally in HTML/etc. so he just did an image.

It looks like it was changed from an image to html within the last 5 minutes or so.

I don't wish harm onto him but to me this reads as a continued cry for attention.

That's exactly what I thought... I was also wondering this whole time if he was just delusional and had no idea why he couldn't prove who he was.

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