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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

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Post by meowface »

nickysielicki wrote: post #77
mappum wrote: post #26

EDIT 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…

To play devils advocate, if I had private keys that were tied to a not-small fortune, I'd keep them so far from my computer that even the proof he's provided would be out of the question. ...On the other hand, the screenshots are from Windows. Windows! Are we really to believe Satoshi uses Windows?

Well, he'd still want to keep them in a safe place he can access if he ever wants the money. And he's had at least 4 months to do something with the key.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by erdojo »

rdl wrote: post #73
markbao wrote: post #43

Craig Wright says that (the late) "Hal Finney was one of the engineers who helped turn Mr Wright's ideas into the Bitcoin protocol", according to this article. However, in Hal Finney's "Bitcoin and Me" post, Hal says he mined the first block in 2008, then turned the miner off, and then heard about Bitcoin again in 2010 and transferred his coins to a cold wallet. But he doesn't say anything about working on the protoc…

Hopefully Hal comes back in some years in the future and sets the record straight. (He's at Alcor now)

Hal Finney (sadly) died two years ago.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by rdl »

erdojo wrote: post #82
rdl wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hopefully Hal comes back in some years in the future and sets the record straight. (He's at Alcor now)

Hal Finney (sadly) died two years ago.

legally dead, yes. However: http://www.alcor.org/blog/hal-finney-becomes-alcors-128th-pa...

I have more confidence Hal Finney will be back in some form, than that Craig Wright is Satoshi.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by maaku »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #63
maaku wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The message isn't provided.

The message is the Sartre quote at the top of the post. Edit: No it's not.

No, it is (supposedly) a longer document of which only a portion is shown in a screenshot.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by csomar »

erdojo wrote: post #82
rdl wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hopefully Hal comes back in some years in the future and sets the record straight. (He's at Alcor now)

Hal Finney (sadly) died two years ago.

No. He was cryonized. Hopefully, the future makes it possible to resurrect him to life.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by foota »

foota wrote: post #36
jazzychad wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hah, I was just thinking about Perplex City the other day and wondered if that Satoshi was ever found. I really did love that game and the community around it.

Based on the wikipedia page that is one of two cards never solved, the other being the Riemann hypothesis.

I'm curious, why are people downvoting this?

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by findthewords »

erdojo wrote: post #82
rdl wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hopefully Hal comes back in some years in the future and sets the record straight. (He's at Alcor now)

Hal Finney (sadly) died two years ago.

So in the end death and taxes caught Satoshi.
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