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Craig Wright Claims He's Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator Of Bitcoin
Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright has put an end to the years-long speculation about the creator of Bitcoin. In an interview with the BBC, The Economist (may have a paywall), and GQ, Wright claimed that he is indeed the person who developed the concepts on which Bitcoin cryptocurrency is built. According to the BBC, Mr. Wright provided "technical proof to back up his claim using coins known to be owned by Bitcoin's creator." Wright writes in a blog post: [A]fter many years, and having experienced the ebb and flow of life those years have brought, I think I am finally at peace with what he meant. If I sign Craig Wright, it is not the same as if I sign Craig Wright, Satoshi[...] Since those early days, after distancing myself from the public persona that was Satoshi, I have poured every measure of myself into research. I have been silent, but I have not been absent. I have been engaged with an exceptional group and look forward to sharing our remarkable work when they are ready. Satoshi is dead. But this is only the beginning. According to Wright's website, he is a "computer scientist, businessman and inventor" born in Brisbane, Australia, in October 1970. Some have questioned the authenticity and relevance of the "technical proof" Wright has provided. Nik Cubrilovic, an Australian former hacker and leading internet security blogger, wrote, "I don't believe for a second Wright is Satoshi. I know two people who worked with Wright, characterized him as crazy and schemer/charlatan." Michele Spagnuolo, Information Security Engineer at Google added, "He's not Satoshi. He just reused a signed message (of a Sartre text) by Satoshi with block 9 key as 'proof.'"
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I know two people who worked with Wright, characterized him as crazy and schemer/charlatan
How does this make him *not* a candidate for being the creator of BitCoin? To me that just seems to reinforce his claim.
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And we must respect that, or liberals will boycott us.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Just how much energy has been wasted mining bitcoins over the years.
Probably less than one billionth of the amount of energy that's been used to view porn on the internet over the same period of time.
Glad we're still talking about this pointless, shitty technology from 2009. What's next, we'll be Waving each other about the stuff we found on Bing?
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Ah, but aren't those just the kind of blatant mistakes Satoshi would make if he wanted to convince the world that he isn't Craig Wright?
What better way to protect your anonymity than jump in the spotlight and play the buffoon so everybody ignores you?
This guy's subtle.
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Hey, check out this new Nickelback song on my Zune!
That reminds me of a funny thing one of my co-workers said about his Zune (this was almost 10 years ago.)
He was describing the features of the Zune in comparison with the iPod. One neat thing was, he said, that one Zune could "loan" a song to another Zune. (I think the song would last for 3 days then go *poof*.)
I said, "Wow, that's pretty neat. How does that work?"
He said, "I don't know... I haven't met anyone else with a Zune yet."
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