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Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by feedjoelpie »

patio11 wrote: post #34

Much more useful link: http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif... Working through it now -- lets say I am rapidly heading towards "Not a hoax" territory. [Edit: Or, possibly, totally quackadoodle -- but very convinced-in-himself quackadoodle. I've gotten as far as proving "OK, he knows how to reverse a Bitcoin address into a public key, and picked a good address for the purpose."]

> "OK, he knows how to reverse a Bitcoin address into a public key, and picked a good address for the purpose."

Yeah, but I can do that. Can it be my turn to be Satoshi now? It's specialized knowledge only insofar as you need to have read how to do it and understand enough to write some commensurate code. This is widely-published stuff. It doesn't take a Satoshi or even an expert.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by Cryptosale75 »

nikcub wrote: post #118

I don't believe this for a second - and i'm more interested in figuring out how he duped two Bitcoin developers and some of the most notable news outlets in the world. When the link to Wright was first reported in Wired[0] and Gizmodo[1], after letting the news sink in for a day it was apparent that the evidence trail was an elaborate ruse. I don't know if Wright leaked the hack to the media (I think it was more like…

For me the Devil is in the behavior. Why would Satoshi go about proving his existence and identity is such a convoluted matter? Simply signing the genesis with a message and posting it pretty much anywhere (bitcointalk, /r/bitcoin, here) for people to verify is all it takes. Not a rambling blot posts full of screenshots and some back-alley interview. This is exactly the kind of 'slight of hand' that a conman utilizes, not a cryptographer of Satoshi's caliber.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by bkolobara »

nikcub wrote: post #118

I don't believe this for a second - and i'm more interested in figuring out how he duped two Bitcoin developers and some of the most notable news outlets in the world. When the link to Wright was first reported in Wired[0] and Gizmodo[1], after letting the news sink in for a day it was apparent that the evidence trail was an elaborate ruse. I don't know if Wright leaked the hack to the media (I think it was more like…

Comment from Gavin Andresen on reddit: https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4hfyyo/gavin_can_you_pl...

But it could be that his account is compromised.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by acqq »

bkolobara wrote: post #204
nikcub wrote: post #118

I don't believe this for a second - and i'm more interested in figuring out how he duped two Bitcoin developers and some of the most notable news outlets in the world. When the link to Wright was first reported in Wired[0] and Gizmodo[1], after letting the news sink in for a day it was apparent that the evidence trail was an elaborate ruse. I don't know if Wright leaked the hack to the media (I think it was more like…

Comment from Gavin Andresen on reddit: https://np.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4hfyyo/gavin_can_you_pl... But it could be that his account is compromised.

His statement sounds fishy:

"I was not allowed to keep the message or laptop (fear it would leak before Official Announcement)."

But also from reddit: "Evidence that Craig Wright is not Satoshi: he doesn't understand selfish mining"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hfyoo/evidence_th...

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by jere »

xorcist wrote: post #185
dataker wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's an interesting position. The question is: why creating this hoax in the first place? If anything, the price of bitcoin has been negatively impacted by this. http://www.coindesk.com/price/ What would it be one's motivation behind this?

"I have access to $440M. I just can't touch it until 2020." Perhaps the oldest con ever. Hence the detailed previous story from him of placing all of Satoshi's stash in a trust.

Also really sketch when you make a point of claiming you don't want money.

>https://youtu.be/dZNtbAFnr-0?t=3m21s

Who says something like this?

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by bennyg »

tkredmond98075 wrote: post #193
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…

If he is not the one he claims to be, why doesn't the real Satoshi send an email saying "hi, it is not him". There are only 2 answers. a. It is him b. The real Satoshi is dead and Mr. Wright knows so. Unless he is extremely stupid, he would never risk claiming to be the most wanted man in the world, if he was not sure that no one could discredit him. We don't need more signature here guys. We just need to decide who…

Or the real Satoshi knows it isn't this guy and will wait until it all blows over. Presumably at a pub of some sort.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by danielweber »

meowface wrote: post #159
comboy wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

And Gavin's Bitcoin commit access just got revoked. I wonder if he was hacked, or if they think he's gone rogue. Or if they're just doing it as a precaution.

What's the reference for this? Where can I see his commit access being revoked?

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by altotrees »

Unless Craig Wright comes out with further proof, proof that is undeniable and unquestionable, I am left feeling sick to my stomach.

I have read several articles this morning which tout this event as total fact (BBC, Venturebeat, NPR and more), and it just saddens me. If this is a hoax, I have lost even more respect for these outlets. If this is a hoax, I have also lost respect for Gavin Andersen, unless he has an ulterior motive for backing Wright in the first place, or was hacked as some have speculated.

Whenever this kind of "unveiling" happens, I get disheartened. It makes a serious technical community and set of ides I care very much about look like little more than a soap-opera or disorganized group of gossip-hounds, as protrayed in major media outlets, overshadowing everything else.

Total bummer (until further proof and/or notice).

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