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Wright has produced faked signatures in the past in an attempt to trick people into thinking he was Satoshi:

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/35060/how-is-the-...

Everything he's said publicly flies in the face of what we know about Satoshi.

The guy is a massive fraud and charlatan, yet it funds his lifestyle.

The absolute state of the world where people like this can exist.

"Your keys, your bitcoin". "Not your keys, not your bitcoin".

> Emotional courtroom speeches

Yea this guy is a fraudster and not a good one at that, show keys or gtfo, that’s all that should count.

This guy is is a conman and trying to win both ways - “Yes, I invented Bitcoin even though I can’t provide any proof, and also I cannot access my $10 billion dollar fortune because I lost the key which subsequently would also prove I invented Bitcoin.”

I know some very serious blockchain people who actually believe this guy is Satoshi and it boggles my mind.

Can you name anyone who believe's he's Satoshi? The only informed people I've come across to proclaim that are shilling BSV, presumably for their own financial benefit.

If you look at my profile you can see who I am, people can publish their own beliefs but I don't speak for anyone else. It seems that "The Secret Life" is a big reason why people believe it.[0] Industry people have their own opinions and some people honestly believe CSW is crazy like a fox, and is doing all of this hoaxing on purpose to keep the mystery alive or for other purposes.

[0] https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n13/andrew-ohagan/the-satoshi-affa...

That's why it'll 'work' for getting money. Satoshi won't come back to prove him wrong.

He's the ultimate honeypot.

he is also somewhat a known liar per actual bitcoin programmers

"my wife and I think it's totally fine that I lost ten billion dollars" - said nobody's wife ever.

I don't even a stake in bitcoin but this guy makes me angry every time he comes up. Such an obvious fraudster, shamelessly taking credit for someone else's work and invention.

If I had to bet, I'd put my money on the real Satoshi being a state actor or group of programmers working in some baroque part of the banking industry. Hell, after reading cryptonomicon I'd even put my money on it being Neal Stephenson before I'd believe it was Craig Wright.

In the very early days of Bitcoin I mined ten or so and then lost the wallet when I, foolishly, wiped the PC it was on to sell. I'm still kicking myself about that. I can't imagine how much more foolish I'd feel if I'd lost $10 billion in a similar way.

I had ~22 BTC stolen from my MtGox account in the very early days. I didn't have 2FA enabled - I don't think they even supported it yet - and my password was a combination of dictionary words. It wasn't entirely trivial at the time, but it was on the order of a couple hundred bucks. I chalked it up as a cheap lesson learned on the value of good passwords and moved on with life.

Traded 50 for WoW gold when it was effectively worthless. Sigh. Thought 'this is stupid, no one's ever going to use this for anything'.

See - http://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-o...

You would have lost it at da club anyways. But plz dont become a BTC hater like so many who lost or didnt get involved!

I can't take anyone seriously who would believe this guy is actually satoshi. Even ignoring the iron clad evidence of private keys and public signatures, Satoshi wrote a lot of C++. I don't think this guy has ever demonstrated that he can program on that level.

Beyond that, he has copied large parts of research papers, tried to fake old websites to make it seem like he was working on crypto currency many years ago, and has released even more nonsense in research papers.

His end goal seems to be to get seed money and use it to patent as many crypto currency ideas as possible.

Didn’t he post a screenshot of a C++ Hello World program which ended up being identical to an online tutorial (including the comments)?

Edit: https://toshitimes.com/craig-wright-proves-he-can-code-by-co...

The bitcoin C++ seems mostly written by Satoshi and Hal Finney. I imagine Finney did most of the coding. Not that I think Wright had anything to do with it.

I don't know much about how it was split up originally, what are you basing that on?

Guess work but basically this (https://medium.com/@cypherpunk./so-you-are-saying-satoshi-is...) plus the fact that Finney was the professional C++ coder. I'm told the code is very professional. I don't know C++ myself.

I'm still wondering how BSV hasn't tanked both on the news that 98% of BSV's transactions come from a shitty weather app associated with it and Wright's constant antics.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/98-of-bsv-transactions-used-f...

> “My wife and I consider it’s too much money," Wright said. "I’ve got enough now… and we worry what that amount of money would do to the kids."

Haha, so, this is a comedy.

I don't understand why no one that Satoshi collaborated with can ask him about stuff that only Satoshi would know. Isn't that the simplest way for both sides to prove it?

The simplest way is for Satoshi to re-use a key known to be his.

Wright cannot do so, because he is not Satoshi.

Non-paywalled alternative:

https://www.coindesk.com/craig-wright-spars-with-kleiman-law...

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