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Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by agumonkey »

DonHopkins wrote: post #4

"They were not deceived" -- yeah, that's the ticket! [1] Nice use of passive voice to obscure the subject of the sentence. He just couldn't bring himself to say "I did not deceive them." It's technically true that there's somebody in the universe who didn't deceive both of those people. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkYNBwCEeH4

I just saw his BBC interview http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36213580 and his body language (for whatever this is worth) is worse than most politicians. Rhythm, eyes.

Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by cooper12 »

4e1a wrote: post #5

What a load of shit! He can't cryptographically prove something without courage?! WTF

"Your skepticism prevented me from providing evidence to allay those concerns".

Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by bpchaps »

anoonmoose wrote: post #23
emmet wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did not expect to be the first one to bring it up. People are being very clinical here.

To be fair to people here, we're discussing a new message by a person who is widely perceived to be running some type of scam. I hadn't considered the more serious subtext of this message but given the history here you have to consider that that might have been intentional to try to engender sympathy.

Yeah, but it still sounds like a legitimate suicide note and some semblance of worry makes sense.. I understand the desire fore fairness, but this was just posted without much followup context. Have a bit of heart for a second.

If this whole story is the a result of a mental health issue, well - mental health is a serious mother fucker.

Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by anoonmoose »

shanehoban wrote: post #22
m52go wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gosh it certainly reads like one. Same text is hosted at his root... http://www.drcraigwright.net/

Why is it a JPG, is there a hidden message encoded in it or something?

Given that the entire source of his main website is

my first guess would be that he wanted to delete basically everything and leave a static message but didn't want to figure out how to do that minimally in HTML/etc. so he just did an image.

Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by kbart »

ablation wrote: post #11

This is not an apology or admission of guilt for conning people with his ridiculous stories. This is an enigmatic exit, complete with him still tacitly claiming to be Satoshi. Quite pathetic.

"This is an enigmatic exit, complete with him still tacitly claiming to be Satoshi. Quite pathetic."

Agreed. "I won't prove that I'm Satoshi anymore, but I am". It's getting more and more like religion -- we don't get to know for sure, we have to believe now.. And I'm sure a herd of idiots will do just that.

Re: I’m Sorry

#38

Post by cynthiar »

agumonkey wrote: post #31
DonHopkins wrote: post #4

"They were not deceived" -- yeah, that's the ticket! [1] Nice use of passive voice to obscure the subject of the sentence. He just couldn't bring himself to say "I did not deceive them." It's technically true that there's somebody in the universe who didn't deceive both of those people. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkYNBwCEeH4

I just saw his BBC interview http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36213580 and his body language (for whatever this is worth) is worse than most politicians. Rhythm, eyes.

I thought he was quite convincing in that performance. In fact, what tipped me off was just how convincing he was, the way a conman would be. What about his body language tipped you off?

Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by celticninja »

emmet wrote: post #7

Is this a suicide note?

Given his character and previous form I would be more inclined to see it as another false trail, perhaps a prelude to faking his own death to avoid his tax problems.
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