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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 jwilkins »

themusicgod1 wrote: post #163
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…

What do you make of Ian Grigg claiming to confirm Wright, having known him as part of the Satoshi team? http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001593.html

He now retracts, says it was poorly worded: https://twitter.com/iang_fc/status/727071298325618689

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by facepalm »

meowface wrote: post #121

Reposting my other comment: I think Wright is just a smooth-talking conman with some crypto experience. I'm betting he met Gavin and other (unfortunately, merely "supposed" at this point...) experts in person, talked shop for a while, then took out his laptop and staged verifying the signature of blocks 1 and 9 with dummy commands. (Edit: Gavin actually claimed it was a clean computer, not one that Wright brought. Di…

Why not post a public message that everybody could verify? The discussion about clean notebooks is useless.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by mathias »

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…

Nowhere in the blog post does Wright say “this is the proof I’m Satoshi”. The entire write-up reads like he’s just giving an example. Why does everyone think it’s some kind of proof?

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by mathias »

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…

Nowhere in the blog post does Wright say “this is the proof I’m Satoshi”. The entire write-up reads like he’s just giving an example. Why does everyone think it’s some kind of proof?

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by petertodd »

comboy wrote: post #142
meowface wrote: post #121

Reposting my other comment: I think Wright is just a smooth-talking conman with some crypto experience. I'm betting he met Gavin and other (unfortunately, merely "supposed" at this point...) experts in person, talked shop for a while, then took out his laptop and staged verifying the signature of blocks 1 and 9 with dummy commands. (Edit: Gavin actually claimed it was a clean computer, not one that Wright brought. Di…

> I think Wright is just a smooth-talking conman with some crypto experience. I'm betting he met Gavin and other (unfortunately, merely "supposed" at this point...) experts in person, talked shop for a while, then took out his laptop and staged verifying the signature of blocks 1 and 9 with dummy commands. I don't believe that anybody with the most basic understanding of cryptography would fall for that. I don't thin…

Note that the genesis block is block _#0_, not block #1

When Bitcoin was publicly released, only the genesis block existed, so every block after that point could have been mined by anyone.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by mathias »

maaku wrote: post #111
nickysielicki wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

> ...On the other hand, the screenshots are from Windows. Windows! Are we really to believe Satoshi uses Windows? Yes. This is the one part of the whole story that doesn't smell. The first version of Bitcoin was windows-only.

+1. Still, code screenshots in Notepad?!

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by IkmoIkmo »

bambax wrote: post #146
IkmoIkmo wrote: post #133

It's kinda sad this is being reported by credible journals, it's super likely to be completely false. I'm glad on HN the link states it's just a claim, and that on the economist it's phrased as a question: 'is he Satoshi?' (the rule being in 99/100 cases, the answer is no.) But I've seen otherwise.

Agence France Presse (AFP) says in English "Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright on Monday revealed himself as the creator of the virtual Bitcoin currency to media outlets..." which in French becomes "Bitcoin: le véritable créateur de la monnaie numérique est Craig Wright". This translates as "the actual inventor of the virtual Bitcoin currency IS Craig Wright", conditionals or precautions be damned; and it's printed…

Yup, Dutch media it was less bad but still not great.

Instead of saying it was a 'claim', or preferably not writing anything about this scam, they wrote 'Wright admits he's Satoshi' in the title.

This 'admitting' implies everyone thought he was Satoshi, and he confirmed it. When in reality, everyone thinks he's definitely not it, and he claimed it without proof.

Then in the article they make completely false claims about him signing messages he didn't etc. It's really sad, there wasn't a hint of skepticism that was present in the Economist which I thought was poor itself already.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by loup-vaillant »

pyb wrote: post #157
csomar wrote: post #96

This is a hoax I think. And also Gavin supporting it is weird. The Signature in the blog post, is, in fact a signature from this transaction: 828ef3b079f9c23829c56fe86e85b4a69d9e06e5b54ea597eef5fb3ffef509fe Relevant Reddit Comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hf4s2/craig_wrigh...

It's all an elaborate ploy to force the real Satoshi to manifest themselves ;)

Wait a minute, are you just trying to be gender neutral, or do you suspect Satoshi is several people like Bourbaki?

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by pyb »

loup-vaillant wrote: post #179
pyb wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's all an elaborate ploy to force the real Satoshi to manifest themselves ;)

Wait a minute, are you just trying to be gender neutral, or do you suspect Satoshi is several people like Bourbaki?

Both!
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