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CoinGeek is either run by or paid for by Craig Wright. You can see that all of the articles are either strongly in his favor or in line with his recent opinions [1].

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...

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If there was any lingering possibility that Craig Wright could still be Satoshi, this pretty much settled the question for me once and for all, from the "talk" you posted from Future of Bitcoin dated 30 June 2017. A direct quote:

"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.

The transcript is off. And biased (Co-author of the http://Bitcoin.org developer documentation)

It excludes his self correction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAcOnvOVquo#t=2h29m15s

"distributed central currency"

Merely using the word "central" to describe Bitcoin betrays that he hasn't even the faintest clue what it is or how it works.

CoinGeek took from him interview, and now pushing series including analysis of it.

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.

Yes, the third citation is a transcript of his talk in the Future of Bitcoin conference. For those curious, you can also watch it on Youtube [1] (warning: maximum cringe).

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...

Hmm. The UK and Australia have an extradition treaty and good working relations. If someone were to abscond from Australia, having committed an offence such as fraud, the UK seems a strange choice of destination.

Finance is centralized around London so it makes more sense. Extradition requires a lot of work, coordination, and tax payer money.

CoinGeek is either run by or paid for by Craig Wright.

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...

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