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I mean, to each his own- especially when talking about dev tools- so why not I guess?
Block 9 contains no transactions other than the mining reward.
https://blockchain.info/block-index/14858/000000008d9dc510f2...
a) He can't sign it.
b) He is really that petulant and petty that he "won't keep jumping through hoops", even when those hoops represent completely reasonable and trivially fulfillable requests. Which itself doesn't really seem to match the temperament I would have expected Satoshi to have, though i'm certainly no expert on the man.
Something is wrong here. I'm not unconvinced, but i'm suspiciously reserving judgment until he signs a second, unpredictable message.
Again? 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.
The signature he has could come from one of the signatures the real Satoshi has created.
Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609707
The signature came from a blockchain tx.
This is a very interesting situation. Fundamentally, there is no reason he shouldn't be willing to sign an additional message. If he is the crypto expert he claims to be, he should understand the perfect legitimacy of such a request. So either: a) He can't sign it. b) He is really that petulant and petty that he "won't keep jumping through hoops", even when those hoops represent completely reasonable and trivially fu…
Relevant Reddit Comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hf4s2/craig_wrigh...
I don't want to sound like a nerd-snob, but isn't weird that the potential Satoshi Nakamoto uses Windows and notepad? http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif... I mean, to each his own- especially when talking about dev tools- so why not I guess?
Sounds extremely dubious. Especially when he's presented fake proof before.
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…
Something is weird. He provided a message and a signature, but there's nothing in the message to indicate that he signed it himself, or when it was signed. It could have been signed months or years ago and there's no way to prove otherwise. He needs to sign a message provided to him right now - or otherwise show ownership of coins in early blocks by moving them around. Edit: He apparently haven't even provided a vali…
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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
In contrast, Satoshi's coins are currently outside the system, and adding them to the system would cause a whole bunch of instability.