Silicon Graphics, Craig Wright, and the Untold Story
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Craig Wright is a known fraud and scammer, who claims to be Satoshi. He not only failed to prove it, but created a clearly fabricated PGP key to do so [2]. He has recently threatened to sue anyone who questions his claims [3]. Stay far, far away.
[1] https://coingeek.com/author/eliafram/
[2] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/jpgq3y/satoshis-p...
[3] https://gist.github.com/harding/b7067d2943706e2e3d3f7aab539a...
"Very simple; very easy: good! When every single person on this globe pays for their cup of coffee---pays for their whatever they want---every day using one single central currency (and I'll say central; one distributed central currency) that is not controlled, that is hard money.
That's what Bitcoin is about: hard central controlled, no one can change, money."
To anyone with even a passing familiarity with Bitcoin, this makes obvious that he very simply doesn't understand what Bitcoin is. I mean, not even a little bit. Not even superficially. If this doesn't settle the question for everyone, once and for all, there is little point in further discussing Craig Wright, or for that matter anything related to Bitcoin.
It excludes his self correction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAcOnvOVquo#t=2h29m15s
"distributed central currency"
And about PGP key... If you took a look at his appearance in Future of Bitcoin conference, you understood, that actually, he signed with fabricated key Nobel prize winner, additional to that, if you took a second to read that text, you understood, that he don't even had intention to sign with real key.
He mentions the PGP key, but only connects it to the Australian Tax Office (which he defrauded, and is now living in the UK). I'm not sure how that's supposed to change my conclusion.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAcOnvOVquo&feature=youtu.be...
Prove it.
Known fraud and scammer
Evidence?
"And for all my searching, I can't find any evidence that CW was actually convicted of any fraud or taxation crimes, despite everyone yelling from the tree tops that he's a scammer and a fraud." [0]
He has recently threatened to sue anyone who questions his claims
You are mistaken. He's not suing anyone who questions his claims. He can sue for libel.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6l24vo/sgi_craig_wrigh...
>The article then mentions the above claim that SGI had no relationship with Craig Wright, and also attacks Wright’s academic credibility by stating he lied about his PhD degree – stating that Charles Sturt University never provided him with any PhD. But CoinGeek and I have already verified and confirmed that the degrees all do exist.
Whereas Forbes says:
> His now-wiped LinkedIn page [..] suggested he had a PhD in computer science with Sydney's Charles Sturt University (CSU). But a statement sent to FORBES today from the university said it had never handed Wright any PhD. "Mr Wright has not been awarded a PhD from CSU," the statement read. [0]
Both of these statements can not be correct, right? Maybe he could he have gotten his PhD after the Forbes article? If so this article should make it clear that the early claims he did not have a PhD from CSU were correct but that this state of affairs has changed.
This story also says:
>CoinGeek has since received mounting evidence which in fact provide strong proofs that SGI did work closely with Craig Wright. Countless emails, records, documents, training material, reference letters, including a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement by both Chris Clarkson (formerly) of SGI, and Craig Wright. Also on hand is evidence of conference video footage of the two parties in question.
However the linked article reads:
>SGI says that “Cloudcroft has never been an SGI customer and SGI has no relationship with Cloudcroft CEO Craig Steven Wright.” [1]
It could well be the case that Cloudcroft was not an SGI customer and that SGI has no relationship with Cloudcroft and also that Cloudcroft and SGI had communications. These are not mutually exclusive claims.
[0]: Forbes: Time To Call A Hoax? Inconsistencies On 'Probable' Bitcoin Creator's PhD And Supercomputers Revealed - https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/12/11/bitco...
[1]: Wired: New Clues Suggest Craig Wright, Suspected Bitcoin Creator, May Be a Hoaxer - https://www.wired.com/2015/12/new-clues-suggest-satoshi-susp...
Here's some information class about he was teaching right until they scrubbed it: https://web.archive.org/web/20120430035605/http://www.itmast...
And another: https://archive.is/ttLth
This was on their youtube page: https://archive.is/gXPkX "Presented by Dr Craig Wright of Charles Sturt University and the Global Institute for Cyber Security + Research."
The SGI endorsement letter existed. I have a copy, but the web version was scrubbed. The remaining evidence is in the form of a copy of press release http://archive.is/cqI6S
If Craig Wright has a PhD you should be able to find his dissertation, look up his advisor/thesis committee, see his publications in CS conferences, etc.
https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/publications/the-quanti...
Wright, C. (2017). The quantification of information systems risk: A look at quantitative responses to information security issues Australia: Charles Sturt University
Doctor of Philosophy
I suspect he may very well have considered himself 'basically done' with his PhD several years ago and just started using the title. He wouldn't be the first
A few weeks before bitcoin's release: https://archive.is/Ao7DQ
"Many 2-year community colleges often hire instructors with only master’s degrees, as long as they have some teaching experience. Four-year colleges and universities usually require a doctoral degree, unless you have decades of experience in your field, in addition to a master’s." http://www.teachingdegree.org/types-of-teachers/higher-educa...
That said, I don't actually doubt that the SGI letter exists, but also believe it was totally fabricated by Craig Wright.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3w8efk/wikileaks_s...
Surely they must have had customers to support and significant assets to support a 2 year old supercomputing company and 9 other ventures. Instead they have been scrubbed from the internet completely in a matter of hours since their ceo was taking PR heat. Can anyone find the new owner of the CO1N supercomputer or evidence that cloudcroft is still using it?
No customers, just investments.
Before they were deleted there were videos of pieces of the equipment.
In Craig Wright's supercomputing class, students are given access to a single node of the purported supercomputer. The only evidence of the supercomputer ever existing is on the green500 list.
If it was an improper investigation then fight it in court and release a public statement on the company's site like a normal company. Nuking your web presence and hiding in another continent is not exactly normal behavior.
The evidence weighs with the expenditure of large investments.
The court fights will probably come as evidenced by a segment in his recent public talk. Especially in countries with libel laws. Court costs a lot of time and money which could be used for better things.
At every turn in this saga of signings, supercomputers, and credentials there's always something sketchy going on. At some point you can no longer accept what this guy says at face value.
There were racks too.
The small stuff you probably saw is for developers.
I find it more likely a technology person would spend a lot money than saving it. If spending millions we are talking DIY supercomputer territory.
At every turn in this saga of signings, supercomputers, and credentials there's always something sketchy going on. At some point you can no longer accept what this guy says at face value.
Name one thing about bitcoin that isn't sketchy.
Craig Wright is not Satoshi. He could have proved it a dozen ways, and has not done so.
I neither know nor care if the rest of his resume is fabricated.