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Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by anoonmoose »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #87

what's the reason for him showing us a screenshot though? 1) so search engines don't index and remember the text? I suppose search engines only read meta data from images and not OCR them when crawling? 2) if one grants him deeper technical knowledge of information security (I don't) then you could argue he has done the image/screenshot after creating the text in his WYSIWYG editor then after publishing the article,…

Some wild guesswork: his website used to disallow right-clicking with a message that said he didn't want to share his images. Obviously people can get around that but whatever, this shows what type of person we're dealing with on a technical level. He might have thought that posting an image would prevent people from...copying the text or something? Searching for it? Who knows.

Of course, now it's HTML again, probably because he realized his website was getting hammered on bandwidth. Which makes me feel a little better about his health and well-being, since being concerned about bandwidth implies long-term thought processes.

Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by DSMan195276 »

joshmanders wrote: post #49

Forgive me as I'm a newbie to bitcoin and only ever seen it from the outside and watched a few things. I only know who Satoshi is because of the mass amounts of people wanting to know who this mysterious man really is. But my question is, why does it matter if Craig Wright is or isn't? I mean I can understand being upset that he lied about it if he really isn't for attention, but what if he is? The dude is literally…

Well, I think it should be noted that this makes it clear that there's simply no way he is Satoshi. He claims to not "have the courage" to show proof that he has the keys, even when he claims to have shown Gavin and Jon proof of having those exact keys. The reality is that showing this proof is trivial, and if he wasn't willing to post it he wouldn't have claimed to be Satoshi at all - and if he actually was Satoshi, he would have posted this proof with his first post.

That said, if someone came out and proved themselves to be Satoshi, it would be a fairly big deal to the Bitcoin world. Satoshi himself has a lot of Bitcoins sitting under his control that he hasn't done anything with. Coupled with the fact that he was the original creator, his opinions would probably have a lot of weight behind them - and this is important when recognizing that Bitcoin right now is at a bit of a cross-roads, with people uncertain on how to proceed.

That said, I'm not heavily involved with Bitcoin, and while it was obvious to me (and most other people) that Wright isn't Satoshi, I wasn't yelling or calling for his head, and I don't really think there were that many other people doing that either - they were just a few loud mouths. All that said, you do have to keep in mind that, because of the power that Satoshi could wield, and the fact that some people have a lot invested in Bitcoin, I can understand the backlash over someone pretending to be Satoshi and potentially messing things up for everybody else.

Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by wbillingsley »

Cryptography, a transaction system that tracks the flow of money around the world, coming out a few years after money laundering measures were on the security agenda, working under a pseudonym to keep their identity secret, not looking to convert much of the hundreds of millions to cash when the price went up, total silence on whether or not somebody else is Satoshi...

... something makes me wonder if Satoshi has the initials GCHQ.

Of course, on the other hand, it'd be ironic if it turns out the real Satoshi just didn't expect it to turn into such a big thing, lost the keys on a USB down the back of a sofa, and is hiding out of the sheer embarrassment of it all.

Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by andy_ppp »

sigmar wrote: post #61
justsaysmthng wrote: post #48

I believe the guy is Satoshi. People were expecting the next Jesus Christ and now everyone's so disappointed that "Satoshi" is just an average geek with human weaknesses - not the messiah everyone expected. Had he started a Unicorn startup, nobody would have even thought to question it, but now that the myth of Satoshi has been blown to astronomic proportions, people refuse to believe that their guru is just a "simpl…

No one is discrediting him because he isn't good at coding or "just an average geek" People are skeptical because this isn't the first time he claimed to be Satoshi [1], and that time he did it by back-dating posts. This time he did it with a demonstrably fake signing of Sartre text. Why would the real Satoshi go to great lengths to create fake evidence?

Okay, I'll bite. He is the creator of Bitcoin but supplies terrible evidence of him being the creator to throw everyone off the scent :-)

Maybe.

Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by e40 »

cisstrd wrote: post #56

If he is not Satoshi and just wanted the attention: Narcissists have an incredible high rate of suicide, because when they fall from their high horse, the floor is quite some way down and the landing is too hard for them. Rather than being found out as fake, go with a bang... I fear the bang coming... This note kind of worries me a little bit... no matter what he did wrong, I hope he will be okay.

But if he's a sociopath, this might be his gambit to exit with the least pain, and suicide would not be very likely.

Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by [deleted] »

e40 wrote: post #95
cisstrd wrote: post #56

If he is not Satoshi and just wanted the attention: Narcissists have an incredible high rate of suicide, because when they fall from their high horse, the floor is quite some way down and the landing is too hard for them. Rather than being found out as fake, go with a bang... I fear the bang coming... This note kind of worries me a little bit... no matter what he did wrong, I hope he will be okay.

But if he's a sociopath, this might be his gambit to exit with the least pain, and suicide would not be very likely.

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Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by ericzawo »

kbart wrote: post #37
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.

Honestly, this is playing out like a Hollywood flick.

Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by daturkel »

daturkel wrote: post #2

The home page of http://www.drcraigwright.net/ currently just displays this image. Linked straight to it so that it wouldn't get flagged as a duplicate submission. edit: Here's a mirror of the image, in case it comes down: http://i.imgur.com/7lhU0mr.jpg And here's the OCR'd text: I'm Sorry. I believed that I could do this. I believed that I could put the years of anonymity and hiding behind me. But, as the events of…

Strangely, he's replaced the homepage and every subpage/file with an HTML version of the note, rather than the image. I'm not sure why.

Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by cisstrd »

e40 wrote: post #95
cisstrd wrote: post #56

If he is not Satoshi and just wanted the attention: Narcissists have an incredible high rate of suicide, because when they fall from their high horse, the floor is quite some way down and the landing is too hard for them. Rather than being found out as fake, go with a bang... I fear the bang coming... This note kind of worries me a little bit... no matter what he did wrong, I hope he will be okay.

But if he's a sociopath, this might be his gambit to exit with the least pain, and suicide would not be very likely.

(still speculating on the basis that he is not Satoshi and did it for reasons of getting attention)

Also a possibility of course... his method to safe at least some of his self-image, depends on how good he is at self-manipulation, people are often very good at it.

Re: I’m Sorry

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Post by eric001 »

kbart wrote: post #37
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.

We are supposed to care about privacy, yet people can't stop trying to find out who is the creator of bitcoins, even though this person clearly doesn't want that to be known. I think we are all naturally hypocritical beings or something.
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