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This is about Faketoshi Notamoto, right?

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Yup.

This guy is a pathological forger and is bad at it.

Here's my write-up from when he got caught doing naughty things with ECDSA:

https://rya.nc/sartre.html

(as noted by another commenter, "pathological" is literal in this case)

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Wouldn't it be trivially easy to prove that oneself is Satoshi Nakamoto? Just signing arbitrary messages with one of the many wallet addresses from the first Bitcoins mined? Assuming of course, that those early keys didn't end up like so many: on a hard drive, in a land fill.

He claims he destroyed the keys while medicated after being released from hospital https://twitter.com/bitnorbert/status/1757745072974475270

It's unfortunate that this is annoying to read with having to expand each entry and then the content popping back up to the top. Annoying enough that I lost interest in reading it. YMMV.

Here's the whole thread from that court day as a webpage: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1757676051591749813.html

Indeed. Which makes all his subsequent contortions all the more absurd.

The weird thing is being bad at it hasn't stopped him. (That and there's some billionaire behind the whole thing, which probably helps.) This article was interesting: https://rorycellanjones.substack.com/p/the-battle-of-bitcoin

> The weird thing is being bad at it hasn't stopped him.

"pathological"

I think it's literally a compulsion for him.

Thanks for the writeup by the way. I kept finding HN posts about the Sartre post and how the signature came from the blockchain, but nothing to explain why the Sartre file hashed the way it did. Thanks for reconstructing it, it really helped me understand the crux of the deception.

Oh, neat, my gist linked from that post was used as evidence.

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