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> And I think he’s definitely brilliant enough to do the work.

It's part of the scam. Bamboozle the target with technobabble. Target lacks the skills to independently verify the claim or even recognize the vocabulary is just plain wrong.

The technical lack of understanding has been documented repeatedly and in depth. Still, people insist in heaping misplaced praise on this huckster's intellect.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-how-many-wrongs-m...

Not only does Wright's temperament not match Satoshi's, but Satoshi actually knew what he was talking about.

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"Bamboozle the target with technobabble. Target lacks the skills to independently verify the claim or even recognize the vocabulary is just plain wrong."

Ah yes, an adage of my old Staff Sergeant (who probably borrowed it himself) "if you can't convince them with brilliance, confuse them with bullshit".

The canonical wording of that phrase seems to be "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit." according to https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._C._Fields

A related quote is- "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

s/software design/piece of public technical writing/ and you have a pretty good match for Wright.

Exactly. I wrote this in another thread, applicable here too:

>Also, Craig Wright doesn't have the technical understanding to have written the Bitcoin implementation. Listen to him speak. If you're honest with yourself, and if you code, you'll realize that he's likely never written much running code at all, much less a full implementation of a complex cryptographic and network protocol.

This is an important observation. Craig gives himself away every time he presents at a conference. His talks just throw up a bunch impressive technical jargon and graphics, but then completely fail to weave it all together into a coherent whole, leaving only a disjointed mess.

It fools people who aren't watching closely and thinking critically. But Satoshi Nakamoto being possibly one of the greatest connectors and integrators of disparate technical ideas in our time, Craig Wright he is not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20372374

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