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He did demonstrate signing a message with Satoshi's private key. Except it was an elaborate trick involving an old signature lifted from a Bitcoin block mined in 2009[1].

[1] https://www.ccn.com/technical-proof-craig-wright-not-satoshi...

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Jesus christ, that's outright fraud.

So is the backdated blog posts edited after the fact (thank you internet archive for proving that). So was the fake PGP key, again backdated and created with a version that didn't even exist back when it was dated. Craig Wright is an incredibly transparent fraudster. No one with even an ounce of intelligence believes his claims are legitimate unless it suits their goals.

There are plenty of intelligent people who are ignorant of cryptography. Including many with power in the judicial system.

he also modified his blog post from 2008 to insert a reference to some cryptocurrency paper he's working on, compare content of last paragraph in "Tonight" post here (captured jun 2nd 2014):

https://web.archive.org/web/20140602022658/http://gse-compli...

and here (captured nov 22nd 2015):

https://web.archive.org/web/20151122172143/http://gse-compli...

"I have a bottle of wine (a bottle of well aged Penfolds Cabernet Sauvignon (1995 vintage). How to put it, Plum red. with a nose of tobacco leaf, cedar and capsicum. A light vanilla with a slight aftertaste. The tannins are mild and it is drinking well now. I do not see much more time for this wine. It is at to just past its peak and needs to be drunk now).

I have a mixed vegetable lassangne with a rich capisum sauce and nutmeg bechmel."

The fact that he needs to use capsicum (he even misspells it) instead of the colloquial word, pepper, shows what an insufferable twat this dude is.

As an ex chef, I gotta point out capsicum is the native word in some English countries :-)

Also as a chef anyone who uses a nutmeg bech is an insufferable twat

Edit: fat thumbs :-p

it may be native but is it colloquial?

Yes, it completely is for Australians.

In Australia where Craig Wright is from, capsicum is the colloquial word for what you call peppers.

Fraud? It's bitcoin man. There's no concept of fraud. Or are you implying that there should be some sort of regulating body that would enforce generally accepted fraudulent behavior?

In the same way that cryptography and distributed ledgers create a way to validate property ownership without a central authority, signed messages provide a way to validate identity without the need for courts. There is definitely a framework for identifying truth versus fraud using solely cryptography. I don't understand your point.

His point is that cryptocurrency is the wild west. Claiming to be someone you're not is, unless you're actually executing identity theft by e.g. taking out loans on someone else's name, is not illegal AFAIK.

I'm not sure what he's trying to achieve, in any case. It's not like the title "you are Satoshi" will do much. You become a key player in the crypto industry by merit, not so much by name.

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