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Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf]

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Re: Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf]

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And the Dave Kleiman who is second author on this paper is that Dave Kleiman, the one who most likely invented bitcoin. Wright has claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto but has proven himself to be a liar on this topic; by his actions he clearly believes that Kleiman controlled the Satoshi bitcoin fortune before his untimely death.

Dave Kleiman had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of Bitcoin. Prior to his death Kleiman was IT support staff for a small county sheriff's department in Florida. He has no relevant expertise -- e.g. the only evidence of Kleiman ever writing any program ever was a simple visual basic script to automate checking the windows registry for forensic information. Literally the only thing remotely suggesting any co…

you sure take your time to discredit Craig don’t you Greggles……

For those reading Greg Maxwell’s rant (founder of Blockstream/ hijacker of Bitcoin), just be careful using someone with obsessive compulsive harrassive behaviour as a trustworthy source, especially when there is financial bias involved.

Greg Maxwell has been harrassing Craig for years now, he is obsessed by Craig and BSV, and wants to see it fail for obvious reasons, if Craig turns out to be Satoshi (hint: he is……) and proves this in court (yes Craig is dying to prove it in court) it will highlight the massive consumer fraud, Blockstream is complicit in.

You may want to figure out why Greg is so obsessed about BSV, maybe just maybe…. BSV is the original Bitcoin design that allows nanotx and has been shown to be capable of handling large scale transactions, defeating any purpose for BTC and ETH, and literally 99% of the crypto space to exist.

Bitcoin does all, BTC does Jack!

This is not investment advise, this is about highlighting fraud (Bitcoin’s rules were set in stone…… by Satoshi, like monopoly most people tend to play by the rules.

Not Greggles though, he prefers to see a Bitcoin being played by his rules……..

Re: Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf]

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You probably don't want to believe anything in this: The author is a well known scammer/con-artist (Craig Wright) who has a long running advanced fee fraud scheme predicated on convincing suckers that he created bitcoin and has some secret stash of billions that he could get to only if his victims help him with some cash flow problems. He has a long history of using forgeries, faked documents, plagiarism, and imperso…

reading this is like a bad novel dude, you are trying so hard to discredit Craig it is now becoming a tad sad tbh…..

Craig has been inviting people in court (including BTC devs) and is awaiting the COPA case to prove he is Satoshi, it was Peter McKormack who bailed out even though being backed by Tether (you know that endless source of money he could use to fight Craig)

It was cobra whi backed out of defending the bitcoin.org which defaulted to Craig

Instead of fighting Craig in court Tether pulled out of the case, yes Tether pulled out and no longer fights that Craig is not Satoshi after having seen the evidence.

Many others have been running as well, rather than actually fighting him in court. (Roger Ver, Adam Back, Greg Maxwell) Folks like @fluffypony and @mcafee all calling Craig a fraud, a common theme, all of them landed in jail for fraudulent behaviour.

Funnily enough Greg is one of the greatest social media engineers fighting a war against Craig but please notice how he is to much of a coward to fight him in court……

Instead he and his crypto space buddies, fight a nasty social media war by spreading misinfo on Craig (using sockpuppet accounts) to make it look like the most functional scalable and technically advanced chain(original Bitcoin with set in stone rules) is a fraud……

Re: Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the Dave Kleiman who is second author on this paper is that Dave Kleiman, the one who most likely invented bitcoin. Wright has claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto but has proven himself to be a liar on this topic; by his actions he clearly believes that Kleiman controlled the Satoshi bitcoin fortune before his untimely death.

Dave Kleiman had absolutely nothing to do with the creation of Bitcoin. Prior to his death Kleiman was IT support staff for a small county sheriff's department in Florida. He has no relevant expertise -- e.g. the only evidence of Kleiman ever writing any program ever was a simple visual basic script to automate checking the windows registry for forensic information. Literally the only thing remotely suggesting any co…

Greggles, enough of you.

Take a break from your craig derangement. Read a book or listen to music.

Re: Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf]

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You probably don't want to believe anything in this: The author is a well known scammer/con-artist (Craig Wright) who has a long running advanced fee fraud scheme predicated on convincing suckers that he created bitcoin and has some secret stash of billions that he could get to only if his victims help him with some cash flow problems. He has a long history of using forgeries, faked documents, plagiarism, and imperso…

reading this is like a bad novel dude, you are trying so hard to discredit Craig it is now becoming a tad sad tbh….. Craig has been inviting people in court (including BTC devs) and is awaiting the COPA case to prove he is Satoshi, it was Peter McKormack who bailed out even though being backed by Tether (you know that endless source of money he could use to fight Craig) It was cobra whi backed out of defending the bi…

> please notice how he is to much of a coward to fight him in court

I filed my response to the conman's laughable $6 billion dollar lawsuit against me on June 16th, which is now almost 11 weeks ago. By comparison, I was only granted only 4 weeks to both find legal representation and respond. Wright appears to be doing almost everything in his power to delay progress in court cases. E.g. he's started claiming that covid hardships are delaying him from going to trial, ironically on a day where he gave a presentation in front of a room full of prospective investors in his scam.

In your response you don't appear to have read my message at all. You don't deny wright's disk writing claims are debunked, that the only 'evidence' he provides of performing the experiment turns out to be an image stolen from a mfgr website, that text was plagiarized, or that he can't even bother to distinguish a scientist from a rock band.

Wright has lost in court multiple times against Roger Ver. Against Adam Back wright not only failed but had to pay all of Dr. Back's legal fees. And against myself Wright appears to be doing all he can to delay responding.

> Peter McKormack who bailed out

Journalist Peter McCormack is being sued by Wright for defamation in the UK for simply repeating what everyone else had been saying for years before: That Wright's supposed evidence of being Satoshi is all obviously fake. Wright has bankrupted him with millions of UKP in legal expenses in what is apparently the most expensive defamation case in UK history ( https://twitter.com/petermccormack/status/140557825024028672... ) yet he has by no means "bailed out".

The fact that Wright is suing journalists for criticizing his obviously false claims is why it's important that people like me step up to point out the scam-- because his naked threats and intimidation prevent others from doing so.

> using sockpuppet accounts

You have a brand new pseudonymous account to post your attack. By contrast, I am publishing here under my only account, one which I've used here since 2010, which is well known and happily disclosed to be me. Sounds to me that you're applying a criticism to your targets that would be better applied to yourself.

I don't have to do anything to make it look like Wright is a fraud because it is transparently obvious that he is one, which is why multiple courts have found that his testamony was false and perjurious and that his documents were forgeries.

Re: Overwriting Hard Drive Data: The Great Wiping Controversy (2008) [pdf]

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There is stronger evidence that paper is nonsense than there is that it's a valid piece of academia. As per painted_frog's superb sleuthing, even the electron microscope image in there was just a rotated and cropped image from another electron microscope website in 1999. Here's the source image here:

https://web.archive.org/web/19991103120709/http://www.engr.s...

Notice the artifacts of the rotation in the plagiarized copy.

https://twitter.com/retired__frog/status/1157762921293914113

"14/26 As Gutmann himself points out in an appended epilogue after OHDD was published, there are major problems with OHDD, one being that bc the authors don’t know the difference between Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM), they confuse the two

"15/26 Note the copy/paste (no citation) from A Practical Guide to Scanning Probe Microscopy (1993). Given the authors’ unfamiliarity with these tools and methods, it doesn’t lend huge credibility to the paper’s conclusions that there is no documentation of the experiment itself.

"16/26 Indeed, the paper falsely claims a MFM-captured image as deriving from this project. In fact it’s a crop of an image originating from Veeco Instruments Inc, in an MFM image gallery on its site since 1999 at latest. The accompanying citation is an unrelated paper about MFM.

"18/26 The concluding section makes the unsupported (false) claim that this study demonstrates that a single-pass overwrite renders data irretrievable even with the use of MFM “or other known methods”. The study didn’t purport to test any other methods, only MFM.

"25/26 No corroborating artifact from the study was ever made available; there is only the critically flawed paper. Questions about method (ex. locating disk sectors) received dubious or dismissive answers.

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