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Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access to internet coins

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Re: Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access to internet coins

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Post by Moodles »

aqme28 wrote: post #33
m348e912 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone find the other guys claim more interesting? That you can derive private keys after just one transaction.

(edit: ignore me) Yeah that sounds like he mis-spoke. You can't get the private key from a signature, or the protocol is broken. Edit: I see. It's confusingly worded but that makes sense.

He did not (he even said they've recovered 10,000+ private keys!). If a nonce is reused across different signatures or just known because randomness is bad, one can compromise the private key used in making the signature.

Re: Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access to internet coins

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Post by _zooted »

astoor wrote: post #4

"They've all refused Wright's demands, though a firm called nChain Ltd is 'said to be working on a modification to the existing BSV client software, which would enable someone who owns but cannot access the BSV to regain control of them.'" Note that Craig Wright is the Chief Science Officer of nChain[0]. It seems cryptocurrency enthusiasts love irreversible transactions until they have one of their own transactions t…

Saying CSW represents the cryptocurrency enthusiasts seems wrong.

Re: Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access to internet coins

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Post by Moodles »

_zooted wrote: post #35
Moodles wrote: post #22

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Here’s a video of Craig Wright being called out by an actual expert and it’s hilarious https://youtu.be/0thnCDgRJfM . He clearly has no clue how ECDSA signatures work.

That's awesome, thank you. The irony of "show me or you're bullshit" is amazing!

He clearly knows he's talking to an actual expert who's calling him out, so he thinks faking getting angry and storming out is a good way for him to escape the situation.

Re: Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access to internet coins

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Post by nathias »

jes wrote: post #13
ddtaylor wrote: post #2

"Faketoshi" as he's known in the community always finds a new way to NOT be able to prove he has access to the early mined coins. It's honestly comical at this point the different bullshit he comes up with. My favorite so far was finding an existing signature on the blockchain from Satoshi, modifying the data, then publishing the signature with different data in an attempt to claim to be the creator of Bitcoin. Every…

What if Craig Wright is suffering from mental health problems similar to those that affected Terry Davis, the author of Temple OS? I understand the Craig Wright is violating the norms of public behavior. I think it would be more charitable to not assume that he’s necessarily in his right mind.

Davis had schizophrenia, Wright is a pathological liar, very different diseases, both sadly incurable

Re: Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access to internet coins

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Post by marcan_42 »

drexlspivey wrote: post #37
aqme28 wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(edit: ignore me) Yeah that sounds like he mis-spoke. You can't get the private key from a signature, or the protocol is broken. Edit: I see. It's confusingly worded but that makes sense.

You can recover a private key from two signatures if they reuse the same nonce. The nonce should be random and only used once as the name suggests

And this is one of the reasons why ECDSA is a poor standard: it's too easy to accidentally screw it up, and it results in the worst possible kind of compromise (private key).

There is a better way: make the nonce a hash of the message signature and the private key. That way you don't need any randomness, and the entire algorithm is deterministic. It is guaranteed (assuming the hash is good, but you need a good hash algorithm to sign things anyway) that no two messages will be signed with the same nonce, and that the nonce cannot be guessed without already having the private key. This is what EdDSA does.

Re: Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access to internet coins

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Post by smoyer »

ddtaylor wrote: post #2

"Faketoshi" as he's known in the community always finds a new way to NOT be able to prove he has access to the early mined coins. It's honestly comical at this point the different bullshit he comes up with. My favorite so far was finding an existing signature on the blockchain from Satoshi, modifying the data, then publishing the signature with different data in an attempt to claim to be the creator of Bitcoin. Every…

It's time I finally admit my past to the world - I'm Satoshi Nakamoto. AMA.

Re: Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access to internet coins

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Post by yeetaccount4 »

Moodles wrote: post #43
_zooted wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's awesome, thank you. The irony of "show me or you're bullshit" is amazing!

He clearly knows he's talking to an actual expert who's calling him out, so he thinks faking getting angry and storming out is a good way for him to escape the situation.

What else is an cornered scammer supposed to do to save face?

Re: Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access to internet coins

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Post by rrobukef »

GBiT wrote: post #14

From legal standpoint it is interesting case and it can bring precedent to crypto scene. We will know if person can lose coins and retrieve them back lawful way with court order. Even more interesting, that most miners are now located in USA jurisdiction. We know, that Google and others can adjust results based on courts orders. It's interesting if miners who invested hundred millions into mining operation could foll…

Hell, it can bring precedent to OSS licenses. Bitcoin is MIT licensed : '[...] THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, [...]'. If you, as a creator, can hold co-authors responsible for losses.

Re: Craig Wright suing developers to forcibly give him access to internet coins

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Post by vintermann »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #12
me_me_me wrote: post #6

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I AM THE KING! Why does everyone keep ignoring me and my orders? What is sad is that anyone is even talking about this guy. From the beginning people pointed out he is lying and yet he is still somehow able to be talk about. Most obvious con-man that is still able to stay in public spotlight.

how does this con-man make money off his cons though?

There are a lot of scams which start off with step 1: "Convince people that you have a lot of money".
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