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Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
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Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
#62Again? This was debunked months ago when he first tried to pull of this stunt. Remember, it's easy to prove you're Satoshi by either * Signing a message with his PGP key http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/satoshinakamoto.asc * Signing a message with one of his early Bitcoin address keys Edit: apparently he did the latter, quote article > Mr Wright said he planned to release information that would allow others to cry…
His proof has been shown to be fake.
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#64I was hoping they would ask him why choose the name 'Satoshi Nakamoto'?
The BBC article stated that Nakamoto was after Tominaga Nakamoto, and Satoshi was a secret.
Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
#65Sign something, or GTFO!
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
The all time high was ~$1216 a coin [1]... so that would put him approximately at $1.2 billion if he has a million coins like the OP suggests. There are about 15.4mm coins in circulation [2], so he has about 6.5% of the current market, or 4.7% of the total BTC that will ever be mined (1/21 million). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bitcoin#cite_note-6... (would appreciate a correction with a better sourc…
That's disastrous. A currency where a single individual owns 4.7% of all currency isn't going to end well I remember there was speculation that Bitcoin could go up to tens of thousands of dollars. Which would probably make Wright the richest man alive
> A currency where a single individual owns 4.7% of all currency isn't going to end well
It's not that far off from real world USD (if you limit it to the US, and extrapolate for number of users) where 16,000 families making up the richest 0.01% control 11.2% of total wealth
Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
#67I was hoping they would ask him why choose the name 'Satoshi Nakamoto'?
The Economist reporters did.
Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
#68EDIT 2: Debunked! The signature in Wright's post is just pulled straight from a transaction on the blockchain. Convert the base64 signature from his post (MEUCIQDBKn1Uly8m0UyzETObUSL4wYdBfd4ejvtoQfVcNCIK4AIgZmMsXNQWHvo6KDd2Tu6euEl13VTC3ihl6XUlhcU+fM4=) to hex (3045022100c12a7d54972f26d14cb311339b5122f8c187417dde1e8efb6841f55c34220ae0022066632c5cd4161efa3a2837764eee9eb84975dd54c2de2865e9752585c53e7cce), and you get th…
> EDIT: Well nevermind, here is the public cryptographic proof: http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif... . Really? That just looks like a much too long (targeted to journalists) description of ECDSA signing. Where's the _actual_ signature?
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Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
#69We changed the URL from http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21698060-..., which points to this longer story.