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Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by elif »

acqq wrote: post #279
elif wrote: post #278

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Postulation warning; The following is entirely devoid of evidence: Taking for granted that Wright is not Satoshi.. How could a respected, crypto-savvy computer scientist become duped by an old sign(i/a)ture? The obvious answer is that the con-man is a very good con-man, and i'm not writing off that possibility. But what other reasons could there be for his support? The next possibility is that he benefits from having…

> what other reasons could there be for his support? The most obvious reason is simpler: Wright and those who accept his claims are "big-blockians": https://cp4space.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/is-craig-wright/ "Matonis, Andresen and Wright are all big-blockians. Having the esteemed creator Satoshi on their side would help their argument, and it is entirely plausible that there are several large organisations who would…

Ah. That seems most likely to me. If true, It is interesting to see this scale of disinformation campaign by a non-government actor. It seems like it would unravel quickly without having any meaningful control over media.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by emmelaich »

jpz wrote: post #245
jere wrote: post #206

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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?

Absolutely - it's the weirdest thing ever that he says this - will he turn down the medal, or just the cash reward - someone who is looking to take your money says something like this. It's a non-topic really, compensation for winning an award, it's bizarre he plays it up like this.

And he says if he gets the Turing award or some other ACM award, he won't be accepting a cent.

The sentence doesn't make sense and he sounds like David Brent from "The Office".

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by meowface »

petertodd wrote: post #231
zymhan wrote: post #225

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Block #0 has a timestamp of 2009-01-03 18:15:05 Block #1 has a timestamp of 2009-01-09 02:54:25 So, does this mean there were 6 days separating the first block in the chain and the first block to be mined? https://blockchain.info/block/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e... https://blockchain.info/block/00000000839a8e6886ab5951d76f41...

Yes! Since the genesis block is hardcoded in the software, what likely happened is Satoshi generated it in advance, added it to the code, and then did a few more days of final testing prior to release. Block #1 on the other hand was mined after the initial announcement on the cryptography mailing list: http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2009-January/... (about seven or eight hours after if I got my timezo…

>As an amusing thought experiment, imagine that Bitcoin is successful and

>becomes the dominant payment system in use throughout

>the world. Then the

>total value of the currency should be equal to the total value of all

>the wealth in the world. Current estimates of total worldwide household

>wealth that I have found range from $100 trillion to $300 trillion. With

>20 million coins, that gives each coin a value of about $10 million.

>So the possibility of generating coins today with a few cents of compute

>time may be quite a good bet, with a payoff of something like 100 million

>to 1! Even if the odds of Bitcoin succeeding to this degree are slim,

>are they really 100 million to one against? Something to think about...

First ever reply to Satoshi. Finney was a smart guy.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by x2398dh1 »

acqq wrote: post #275
x2398dh1 wrote: post #269

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My mistake - I had written, "Wright, Australia," when really it was, "Martin, Australia." Wires crossed in my brain when I did a quick post. Now it's too late for me to edit my above post. Thank you for the correction. http://whoislookupdb.com/iplist/180.216.116

Still, Martin is near Perth, almost 3000 km away from the location of Wagga Wagga of the https://www.csu.edu.au/anrl/people you've linked. Do you have any link between Martin near Perth and Wright except "Australia"?

No, sorry. After you asked this question I looked, but I can't find any link. I thought the IP provider might be similar to the University or something. Perhaps there is some link out there, but it's opaque to me.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by mehdix »

stordoff wrote: post #255
cookiecaper wrote: post #199

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Let me put forth an alternate theory. Everyone is suggesting this is a scam for more money, which is undoubtedly the most likely explanation. However, I think an alternate explanation is that this may be a larger ploy to try to bait the real Satoshi out of hiding. Get him to say "No, that guy's a poser, it's really me." and while he's out, say "Hey man, what do you think about the blocksize?" This could explain Gavin…

Even if that were the case, why would it reveal Satoshi? Even if the real Satoshi felt the need to step in, he wouldn't need to reveal himself or open up future communications - just post an anonymous message signed with a known key that states "I am not Craig Wright".

This is the best solution so far, however, it assumes the real Satoshi is still around.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by oneloop »

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…

Found this:

http://attrition.org/errata/plagiarism/it_regulatory_standar...

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by alfiedotwtf »

icebraining wrote: post #182
alfiedotwtf wrote: post #151

Just remember that The Economist a few years ago published a story on Steorn's Perpetual Motion machine. You don't go to The Economist when you want hard hitting investigative journalism - you go The Economist when you need investor money.

It was a (full-page) ad, not a story, not even a "sponsored" one, as the layout was quite distinct: http://dispatchesfromthefuture.com/images/steorn_economist_a...

What's the difference between this and Nature having a full page ad for a Homeopathy clinic?

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by digitaurus »

apsec112 wrote: post #50

Gavin Andresen says he's verified that Wright is Satoshi. If this is a hoax, a lot of people are going to wind up with a lot of egg on their faces. :) http://gavinandresen.ninja/satoshi

This happens. The historian Hugh Trevor Roper was the world's greatest expert on Adolf Hitler and fell for a scam, famously publicly endorsing some fake 'Hitler diaries'.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by smokinman »

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…

it looks like you might have to eat your words....

http://www.drcraigwright.net/extraordinary-claims-require-ex...

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