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Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

#51

Post by maaku »

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: Well nevermind, here is the public cryptographic proof: http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif....

Really? That just looks like a much too long (targeted to journalists) description of ECDSA signing. Where's the _actual_ signature?

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

#52

Post by LeoPanthera »

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…

Something is weird. He provided a message and a signature, but there's nothing in the message to indicate that he signed it himself, or when it was signed. It could have been signed months or years ago and there's no way to prove otherwise.

He needs to sign a message provided to him right now - or otherwise show ownership of coins in early blocks by moving them around.

Edit: He apparently haven't even provided a valid message/sig, so the whole thing stinks.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

#53

Post by wutbrodo »

maaku wrote: post #51
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: Well nevermind, here is the public cryptographic proof: http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif... . Really? That just looks like a much too long (targeted to journalists) description of ECDSA signing. Where's the _actual_ signature?

It's near the beginning of the post.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

#55

Post by [deleted] »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #52
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…

Something is weird. He provided a message and a signature, but there's nothing in the message to indicate that he signed it himself, or when it was signed. It could have been signed months or years ago and there's no way to prove otherwise. He needs to sign a message provided to him right now - or otherwise show ownership of coins in early blocks by moving them around. Edit: He apparently haven't even provided a vali…

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Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

#56

Post by im3w1l »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #52
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…

Something is weird. He provided a message and a signature, but there's nothing in the message to indicate that he signed it himself, or when it was signed. It could have been signed months or years ago and there's no way to prove otherwise. He needs to sign a message provided to him right now - or otherwise show ownership of coins in early blocks by moving them around. Edit: He apparently haven't even provided a vali…

Yeah, the best thing would be if he signed a news article that didn't exist, and couldn't have been predicted until very recently.

EDIT: Or maybe the latest bitcoin block.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

#57

Post by VMG »

Again? This was debunked months ago when he first tried to pull of this stunt.

Remember, it's easy to prove you're Satoshi by either

* Signing a message with his PGP key http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/satoshinakamoto.asc

* Signing a message with one of his early Bitcoin address keys

Edit: apparently he did the latter, quote article

> Mr Wright said he planned to release information that would allow others to cryptographically verify that he is Satoshi Nakamoto.

Wonder why it takes so much planning.

Edit2: apparently he signed something

http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif...

Gavin Adresen also is convinced: http://gavinandresen.ninja/satoshi

Edit3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609707

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

#58

Post by maaku »

puranjay wrote: post #38
firloop wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The all time high was ~$1216 a coin [1]... so that would put him approximately at $1.2 billion if he has a million coins like the OP suggests. There are about 15.4mm coins in circulation [2], so he has about 6.5% of the current market, or 4.7% of the total BTC that will ever be mined (1/21 million). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bitcoin#cite_note-6... (would appreciate a correction with a better sourc…

That's disastrous. A currency where a single individual owns 4.7% of all currency isn't going to end well I remember there was speculation that Bitcoin could go up to tens of thousands of dollars. Which would probably make Wright the richest man alive

You should lookup the Rothschilds sometime.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

#59

Post by asdfaoeu »

wutbrodo wrote: post #53
maaku wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> EDIT: Well nevermind, here is the public cryptographic proof: http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif... . Really? That just looks like a much too long (targeted to journalists) description of ECDSA signing. Where's the _actual_ signature?

It's near the beginning of the post.

Are you referring to

> IFdyaWdodCwgaXQgaXMgbm90IHRoZSBzYW1lIGFzIGlmIEkgc2lnbiBDcmFpZyBXcmlnaHQsIFNh dG9zaGkuCgo=

It's just a base64 encoded string.

Re: Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

#60

Post by maaku »

wutbrodo wrote: post #53
maaku wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> EDIT: Well nevermind, here is the public cryptographic proof: http://www.drcraigwright.net/jean-paul-sartre-signing-signif... . Really? That just looks like a much too long (targeted to journalists) description of ECDSA signing. Where's the _actual_ signature?

It's near the beginning of the post.

The message isn't provided.
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