Craig Wright (not?) revealed as Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto

Wellenreiter

Well, finally the speculation is over

AcidD

yeah around 3-4 weeks ago he came out saying “soon I’m going to release info that will prove I’m Satoshi”

now he’s done it…although, yes…reading Reddit, Bitcointalk and other forums/blogs…not many people seem convinced or impressed.

people ask him to “move your coins or GTFO” but he’s stated many times the coins are locked in some Tulip Trust…and cant be moved till 2020.

Gavin, on the other hand does seem to believe Craig = Satoshi.

ghostlander

What we know is that he claims to possess copies of private keys for coin bases of some early BTC blocks. How he’s got them is another story.

ChekaZ

I dont understand it completely, maybe you do @ghostlander

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hhreq/how_craig_constructed_the_message_that_he_signed/

ghostlander

@ChekaZ This particular “proof” doesn’t prove anything. Take input script of the first Bitcoin transaction which is a public knowledge, convert to base64 and do whatever you want with it. If he signed a specific message with the private key of block #9 coin base, it could be a real proof.

ChekaZ

@ghostlander said:

@ChekaZ This particular “proof” doesn’t prove anything. Take input script of the first Bitcoin transaction which is a public knowledge, convert to base64 and do whatever you want with it. If he signed a specific message with the private key of block #9 coin base, it could be a real proof.

I could read out of the comments that it isnt a proof, but I didnt understand why tbh. - Thanks :)

AmDD

@ChekaZ I think, (and ghost please let me know if Im wrong here) that basically rather than actually signing a message today he found an old signed message and tried to claim it was his.
This isnt exactly what happened but its the best way I can explain it as something similar.

EDIT: after re reading that and thinking about it, its probably best to let someone else explain. Im of no help here. :confused:

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Bitcoin watchers have long wondered why the giant cache of coins they attribute to Satoshi Nakamoto never moved on the bitcoin’s publicly visible blockchain. Wright’s “Tulip” trust fund of 1.1 million bitcoins may hold the key to that mystery. The trust fund PDF signed by Wright’s late friend David Kleiman keeps those coins locked in place until 2020, yet gives Wright the freedom to borrow them for applications including “research into peer-to-peer systems” and “commercial activities that enhance the value and position of bitcoin.”

Despite those exceptions to the trust’s rules, the million-coin hoard has yet to budge, even after Kleiman’s death in 2013. That may be because Wright could be keeping the coins in place as an investment. He could be leveraging the trust in less visible ways, like legally transferring ownership of money to fund his companies while still leaving it at the same bitcoin address. Or he might still be waiting for January 1st, 2020, a countdown to a date that could take the lid off the biggest cryptocurrency fortune in history.

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I’m starting to feel sorry for Gavin …

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Man Gavin got extremely fooled.Matonis as well of course.
Gavin yesterday: “I am convinced beyond a reasonable doubt: Craig Wright is Satoshi.”
Gavin today: It’s certainly possible I was bamboozled.

P.S. Scientist are becoming sceptical.

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-bitcoin-creator-unmasks-himselfwell.html

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This a link to how the signing should have been done…

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345.0#post_core0100

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Craig Wright admits he can’t prove he’s Satoshi …

http://www.drcraigwright.net/homepage.jpg

Background on Craig

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/innovation/bitcoins-creator-is-australian-what-we-know-about-craig-steven-wright-20160502-gokiij.html

Reading between the lines it looks like he may have hinted to “investors” in order to get Hotwire PE, after the Australian Raid - his private proof didn’t work in public

More than ten years later, in June 2013 – still two years before publications would claim he founded Bitcoin — Wright founded a now-defunct technology firm called Hotwire PE using $US23 million in Bitcoin (which also represents 1.5 per cent of all Bitcoin in existence), Wired reported.

The following February, he announced the company would be opening Denariuz, the first Bitcoin-based bank, Business Insider reported.

AcidD

This has now become this stuff movies are made of.

first read this:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/satoshi-saga-continues-tulip-trust-trustee-expected-to-appear-by-september-says-joseph-vaughnperling-1462467803

and then this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4i443g/highly_speculative_saotshis_bitcoin_in_a_trust/

What a time to be a live! there are wild conspiracies on Reddit but I’m looking at all of this and my mind keeps going back to what’s in the Bitcoin Genesis Block…

The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block

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There are some weird things happened to Hal Finney …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Finney_(computer_scientist)

bsotnikow

I never understood the concept of this trust or the release date…It would all just be promises right? At the end of the day if someone has access to the funds, they can move them.

MrWyrm

Charlie Lee’s proof for example…

https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite/status/727157971428331520