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Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong
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Re: Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong
#12If he's not Satoshi and doesn't have Satoshi's keys the what is the point of saying he is Satoshi? Seems like a long way to go for some notoriety and no financial gain.
He attempted to sue Bitcoin core devs to alter the algorithm to hand over Satoshi's coins. On the basis that he lost the keys and that the maintainers have a duty to him to help him recover them. Every part of the lawsuit was just batshit insane. The most insane part was that an UK court allowed the lawsuit to be heard, and forced dozens of people not living in UK to pay big money to defend themselves.
While the lawsuit was insane, it serves a good reminder that when Bitcoiners proudly proclaim that “governments have no power over them”, it’s not quite that simple in lots of ways.
If the governments of the world really started to believe their fiscal powers or national currencies were threatened by crypto, they have an extensive repertoire of tools to shut it down.
Re: Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong
#13If he's not Satoshi and doesn't have Satoshi's keys the what is the point of saying he is Satoshi? Seems like a long way to go for some notoriety and no financial gain.
He attempted to sue Bitcoin core devs to alter the algorithm to hand over Satoshi's coins. On the basis that he lost the keys and that the maintainers have a duty to him to help him recover them. Every part of the lawsuit was just batshit insane. The most insane part was that an UK court allowed the lawsuit to be heard, and forced dozens of people not living in UK to pay big money to defend themselves.
It looks like the UK is considering perjury and I hope they follow through and are aggressive on it.
We can't have incentive structures where the upside is becoming fabulously rich but the downside is a slap on the wrist.
Re: Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong
#14If he's not Satoshi and doesn't have Satoshi's keys the what is the point of saying he is Satoshi? Seems like a long way to go for some notoriety and no financial gain.
he did try to gain financially. he forked bitcoin into Bitcoin Satoshi Vision.
He also started and made himself CEO of at least 3 cryptocurrency startups. One of those startups (nChain) tried extract patent licensing fees from other cryptocurrency players.
Re: Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong
#15If he's not Satoshi and doesn't have Satoshi's keys the what is the point of saying he is Satoshi? Seems like a long way to go for some notoriety and no financial gain.
We are talking about it aren't we?
Re: Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong
#16If he's not Satoshi and doesn't have Satoshi's keys the what is the point of saying he is Satoshi? Seems like a long way to go for some notoriety and no financial gain.
He attempted to sue Bitcoin core devs to alter the algorithm to hand over Satoshi's coins. On the basis that he lost the keys and that the maintainers have a duty to him to help him recover them. Every part of the lawsuit was just batshit insane. The most insane part was that an UK court allowed the lawsuit to be heard, and forced dozens of people not living in UK to pay big money to defend themselves.
>The most insane part was that an UK court allowed the lawsuit to be heard, and forced dozens of people not living in UK to pay big money to defend themselves.
Minor correction: according to the wikipedia article on Wright, the Crypto Open Patent Alliance sued Wright, not the other way around.
However, IIUC Wright's attempts over many years to fraudulently extract patent licensing fees and other undeserved benefits from the industry drove industry leaders to spend money to sue Wright. Those attempts included Wright's suing many people.
I'm outraged by Wright and hope Wright is forced to stand trial in criminal court for perjury and forgery.
Re: Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong
#17Wish there was more detail about the typeface and notebook sleuthing.
Re: Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
He attempted to sue Bitcoin core devs to alter the algorithm to hand over Satoshi's coins. On the basis that he lost the keys and that the maintainers have a duty to him to help him recover them. Every part of the lawsuit was just batshit insane. The most insane part was that an UK court allowed the lawsuit to be heard, and forced dozens of people not living in UK to pay big money to defend themselves.
>The most insane part was that an UK court allowed the lawsuit to be heard, and forced dozens of people not living in UK to pay big money to defend themselves. Minor correction: according to the wikipedia article on Wright, the Crypto Open Patent Alliance sued Wright, not the other way around. However, IIUC Wright's attempts over many years to fraudulently extract patent licensing fees and other undeserved benefits f…
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Re: Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong
#19> A legal notice on Wright’s website¹ now states that he is not Satoshi and that he has been ordered not to carry out any more legal proceedings based on these false claims. I can see the notice, but how does that work? Did the court order that specific phrasing and page? Have they seized the domain? Are they going to run it indefinitely? Is there anything stopping Craig from purchasing a new domain and using that? ¹…
It doesn't look like a seized domain/website, then his own personal "logo" wouldn't be there, and it would be clear some agency was behind it, but seems that has been published by himself.
Skimmed through the linked court docs but didn't find anything about him being forced to publish something like this, although that would make sense if he was.
Seems weird to write in 3rd person though, but wouldn't be the weirdest thing that guy engaged in so who knows, diggan certainly doesn't.
Re: Craig Wright said he invented Bitcoin – lawyers proved him wrong
#20> …lawyers picked apart Wright’s claims that some of his computer documents had been typed before 2008, using evidence from font designers. The witnesses testified that some fonts “hadn’t even been created until years after the alleged date of the document”… https://craigwright.net/ Fascinating.
Fun fact: A Microsoft font also helped expose corruption by Pakistan's former PM, Nawaz Sharif [1]. Apparently, documents dated to 2006 were typed up using Calibri, a font that only went into public distribution around 2007.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/12/15961354/pakistan-calibri...