Here is an Amazon comment left by Wright. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVvsxDOVAAANOD-.png:large "Silicone" Valley? "Assumed to the centre of everything"? Color me skeptical that this guy is Satoshi. (source: https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/674393417019883520 )
Agreed... Exhibit A ( https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf ) This paper, and the technology it proposes, are as eloquent and ingenious as they come. Exhibit B (from one of Wright's blog posts in the Wired exposé) "Well.. e-gold is down the toilet." The telltale 2 dot ellipsis... Imagining this semi-literate blowhard writing that paper is a real stretch.
"I do not want to be your posterboy. I am not found and I do not want to be." Why oh why can't journalists just respect his wishes! "People love my secret identity and hate me." It certainly seems that the Australian police aren't on particularly good terms with him at the moment. If the Australian government takes control of the Tulip Trust bitcoin stash, the world has to deal with a cryptocurrency being managed by…
> Why oh why can't journalists just respect his wishes! Because it's their job not to. Lots of people don't want to be found but it's in the public interest to find them. I'd argue the same goes for the creator of Bitcoin. It's in the public interest to find this person and see what they stand to gain from Bitcoin's continued use and value, and what they are likely to do with the money. You will respond that it doesn…
> it's in the public interest to find them.
Care to expand on that? Where is the limit on Outing someone, when does it become doxing?
Once again, you have a journalist ruining a person's life by claiming they created BitCoin. Wired better be able to back it up.
It's just as shitty whether it's true or false. Either way, they're deliberately exposing someone to unwanted public attention to sell magazines and ad impressions.
For all I know, every news is trash now... First they just publish as soon as possible. So it's the law of everything goes, no time to verify. And their article are 60% useless shit.
So if the popular theory that he's faked a lot of the evidence to make himself look like Satoshi is true, it would appear he didn't entirely think his plan through...
I think most likely Satoshi was a pseudonym jointly created by Kleiman & Wright for their collaboration, but after Kleiman died, Wright went back and faked emails to make it look like he alone was Satoshi.
Both crazy not to try and do it in house for the cost. Those guys are charging 15% and say you won't get it if you do it yourself. Any confident business person should be able to. It is meant to be self administered. It is a huge profit center for the likes of KPMG.
The R&D Tax scheme is a mix of law, tax and accounting. Like representing yourself in a legal matter or doing your own tax return, if its simple and straightforward you might be ok to claim yourself. However add a little complexity here or there and it helps to have someone who knows what they're doing to guide you through it. Its a self assessment scheme, like tax, anyone can lodge their own return and the ATO will…
Yep.. We were an American company, with Indian investors who bordered on the 40% ownership stake where we'd have to claim their revenue as ours, claiming R&D expenses for goods bought in the US and deployed in Australia with AU employees and backpacker visaholders.. Why in the world would we take the risk of filing our own application when you can easily negotiate a deal with one of the big 4 to 'handle it' for a few hundred k.
Gwern has a long history of obsessive and misdirected behavior on this subject which is likely to cause harm to others. This particular case is Gwern's N-th accused "satoshi"... and this time the evidence consists mostly of counter evidence. For example, these pgp signed emails are signed with the key with short ID 5EB7CB21 which is not the well known key, does not exist in old keyserver dumps, and has a pref-hash-al…
> This particular case is Gwern's N-th accused "satoshi" Not with this degree of certainty.
What certainty? Here's what they have: possibly backdated keys; edited blog entries; leaked emails. All from same, untrustworthy source. That's not certainty or concrete. It would probably be tossed out of court in the U.S. the second the defense brought up the blog editing.
Gwern has a long history of obsessive and misdirected behavior on this subject which is likely to cause harm to others. This particular case is Gwern's N-th accused "satoshi"... and this time the evidence consists mostly of counter evidence. For example, these pgp signed emails are signed with the key with short ID 5EB7CB21 which is not the well known key, does not exist in old keyserver dumps, and has a pref-hash-al…
> This particular case is Gwern's N-th accused "satoshi" Not with this degree of certainty.
Once again, you have a journalist ruining a person's life by claiming they created BitCoin. Wired better be able to back it up.
It seems pretty well backed-up. Several leaked emails and deleted blog posts with Wright voluntarily identifying as Nakamoto. Certainly not as cavalier as Newsweek were last year when trying to out that other fellow. That doesn't mean it's not carefully crafted bullshit on his behalf
Not backed up. An unreliable source creates emails and blog posts that say it's him. End of story, right? No, not by far. This dump is worthless as evidence so far.
Many governments are interested in finding Satoshi. They need a scapegoat to pin this bitcoin thing on. They still believe finding him/her might be effective method of getting rid of bitcoin. It's like trump wanting to go ask bill gates about locking up the internet.
Proof for these ludicrous statements please.
i admit i don't have conclusive proof. however, is it really 'ludicrous' to speculate that those in power seek to destroy bitcoin in any way possible? especially when taking into account how vocally anti-establishment the bitcoin community has become.
Gwern has a long history of obsessive and misdirected behavior on this subject which is likely to cause harm to others. This particular case is Gwern's N-th accused "satoshi"... and this time the evidence consists mostly of counter evidence. For example, these pgp signed emails are signed with the key with short ID 5EB7CB21 which is not the well known key, does not exist in old keyserver dumps, and has a pref-hash-al…
And you have a history of jumping the gun in declaring evidence as false or not true which likewise likely caused/causes harm. Such as your public and forceful "rebuking", in an authoritarian manner, of the then revelations, with evidence, that gox had 200k btc, which latter of course was shown to be true and showed that you were in no way rebuking anything, but abusing your position. One would think you would have l…