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Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by Nadya »

stordoff wrote: post #249
mappum wrote: post #26

EDIT 2: Debunked! The signature in Wright's post is just pulled straight from a transaction on the blockchain. Convert the base64 signature from his post (MEUCIQDBKn1Uly8m0UyzETObUSL4wYdBfd4ejvtoQfVcNCIK4AIgZmMsXNQWHvo6KDd2Tu6euEl13VTC3ihl6XUlhcU+fM4=) to hex (3045022100c12a7d54972f26d14cb311339b5122f8c187417dde1e8efb6841f55c34220ae0022066632c5cd4161efa3a2837764eee9eb84975dd54c2de2865e9752585c53e7cce), and you get th…

> EDIT: Current opinion: still skeptical. Here is the public cryptographic "proof": http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif... A little off-topic, but suppressing right-clicks (and trying to suppress Ctrl/Alt/Shift?) is a really obnoxious thing for a website to do. document.onmousedown=disableclick; status="Sorry, not sharing images!"; function disableclick(event) { if(event.button==2) { alert(st…

I don't believe the real Satoshi has any motive for coming public. As thus, anyone claiming to be Satoshi is not something I put any amount of belief into.

As for your aside, not to mention it is completely and utterly futile. Hurts the normal user experience and accomplishes nothing for anyone who wants to steal the images.

http://i.imgur.com/vYSRjrs.png

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by acqq »

x2398dh1 wrote: post #228
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…

Interesting evidence perhaps supporting your claim - the Wikipedia page for Nakamoto has been edited heavily and subsequently blocked in the last 24 hours by an ip address pointing to Wright, Australia, the location of Charles Stuart University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/180.216.... I don't know how to go any deeper than that, and I wouldn't call it a smoking gun, but I just think it's humor…

It's of course interesting that these edits, which have the first sentence "Satoshi Nakamoto is the pseudonym used by Australian tech entrepreneur Dr Craig Wright, who designed bitcoin" did come from Australia!

But wait, how do you get your location, that is, how does it actually point to Wright? I get that it's a range taken by vividwireless Pty Ltd, and different locations.

Except for confirming "it's in Australia" I can't get anything more exact. Which doesn't mean I can't imagine Wright doing exactly that, modifying Wikipedia about Nakamoto this way.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by stordoff »

cookiecaper wrote: post #199
dataker wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's an interesting position. The question is: why creating this hoax in the first place? If anything, the price of bitcoin has been negatively impacted by this. http://www.coindesk.com/price/ What would it be one's motivation behind this?

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".

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by danielweber »

branchless wrote: post #214
rdl wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Gavin was just lazy in how he validated this (he probably was misdirected by a conman Wright into focusing on validating the signature, not on assessing whether the signature and key actually meant anything....turns out it was a non fresh message, so it wasn't proof that the human in front of him actually controlled the key.) Neither Jon Matonis nor Ian Grigg have said they actually did real validations thems…

Why not fault them? Because it's not their area of expertise? They should get someone in to verify. Is this a real journalist or someone at a tabloid?

If you ask a journalist to verify something, they will bring in an expert to do it, not attempt to mathematically verify it themselves.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by danielweber »

redsummer wrote: post #105

"He also says he can’t send any bitcoin because they are now owned by a trust." Well, the trust could create a new address, and send btc to itself. This above all makes me not believe him.

When he talks to media, he uses technobabble bamboozle.

When he talks to tech, he uses legalbabble bamboozle.

Even if he didn't want to transfer any original BTC pre-news-release, they could have coordinated for him to transfer 1 BTC from an early block to some charity at the time of reveal.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by danielweber »

grondilu wrote: post #230

That looks like an extremely elaborated way to make a claim that could normally be done in a few lines. And even if the claim would require a long explanation, for instance if Satoshi lost or destroyed the keys for the first few blocks, or the passwords to his accounts on several forums where he used to write, there would be no need for him to do this explanation himself. The burden of the proof his on him, but not t…

The LiteCoin founder showed how easy it was:

https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/status/727157971428331520

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Post by nitrogen »

chjj wrote: post #120

This is absolutely fake and already debunked, as mentioned on the bitcointalk forums: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1457039.msg14728531#... The signature Wright posted is a signature from a transaction on the blockchain (and therefore cannot be a signature of a Nobel prize refusal speech or whatever other message he claims): https://blockchain.info/tx/828ef3b079f9c23829c56fe86e85b4a69... The above tx's scri…

Note to mods: the really long signature line makes the page unreadable on mobile; probably too late for OP to edit.
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