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Bitcoin 'Creator' Reneges On Promise To Provide More Proof, Says He's Sorry (bbc.com)
Craig Wright, the Australian computer scientist who claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto -- the creator of bitcoin -- has backtracked on a pledge to provide more proof of his earlier claims. Wright says that he lacks the courage to face allegations. On May 1, Wright claimed that he was the creator of bitcoin, offering digital signature, signed using a private key that was thought to be held by Nakamoto. We later learned that the "proof" Wright offered was simply copied from an older transaction. At the time, Wright assured that he will be moving early bitcoins as "extraordinary evidence". On Thursday, Wright wrote in a blog post that he is "sorry," and that he cannot do this. He writes: I believed that I could do this. I believed that I could put the years of anonymity and hiding behind me. But, as the events of this week unfolded and I prepared to publish the proof of access to the earliest keys, I broke. I do not have the courage. I cannot. When the rumors began, my qualifications and character were attacked. When those allegations were proven false, new allegations have already begun. I know now that I am not strong enough for this. I know that this weakness will cause great damage to those that have supported me, and particularly to Jon Matonis and Gavin Andresen. I can only hope that their honour and credibility is not irreparably tainted by my actions. They were not deceived, but I know that the world will never believe that now. I can only say I'm sorry.
Now that he's exposed, the scam artist tries to play the role of victim.
He didn't say he was sorry for lying about being Satoshi. He said he's sorry that everybody is being a bunch of dicks to him, by asking him to provide ordinary proof for his extraordinary claim.
He is saying he is *capable* but unwilling to do that because he can't leave the anonymity behind?
If he couldn't leave the anonymity behind, we would have backtracked on his whole claim. Instead he doubles down that he is truthful, but won't prove it to keep anonymity...... I'm truly baffled at who he thinks he's fooling.
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Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Proof
May 3, 2016
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Yesterday, Andreas Antonopoulos posted a fantastic piece on Reddit.
Andreas said something critically important and it bears repeating: “I think the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto does not matter”.
He’s absolutely right.
It doesn’t – and shouldn’t – matter to the Bitcoin community.
I cannot deny that my interest in bringing the origins of Bitcoin into the light is ultimately and undeniably a selfish one – the only person to whom this should matter is me. In the wake of the articles last December in which I was ‘outed’, I still believed that I could remain silent. I still believed that I could retreat into anonymity, sever contact, go quiet, and that the storm would eventually pass and life would return to normal. I was right and wrong. The story did eventually retreat, but not before it ‘turned’ and the allegations of fraud and hoax (not to mention personal threats and slurs against me and my family) clung to me.
I now know that I can never go back.
So, I must go through to go forward.
Mr. Antonopoulos’ post also notes that if Satoshi wants to prove identity, “they don’t need an “authority” to do so. They can do it in a public, open manner.” This is absolutely true, but not necessarily complete. I can prove access to the early keys and I can and will do so by moving bitcoin, but this should be a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for such an extraordinary claim.
And this is why I wanted to speak with Gavin weeks ago. Gavin was in a unique position as we dealt with each other directly while we nurtured Bitcoin to life in 2010. I knew that Gavin would remember the content of those messages and discussions, and would recall our arguments and early interactions. I wanted to speak with Gavin first, not to appeal to his authority, but because I wanted him to know. I owed him that. It was important to me that we could re-establish our relationship. Simply signing messages or moving bitcoin would never be enough for Gavin.
And it should not be enough for anyone else.
So, over the coming days, I will be posting a series of pieces that will lay the foundations for this extraordinary claim, which will include posting independently-verifiable documents and evidence addressing some of the false allegations that have been levelled, and transferring bitcoin from an early block.
For some there is no burden of proof high enough, no evidence that cannot be dismissed as fabrication or manipulation. This is the nature of belief and swimming against this current would be futile.
You should be sceptical. You should question. I would.
I will present what I believe to be “extraordinary proof” and ask only that it be independently validated.
Ultimately, I can do no more than that.
My work here is dung.
Big foot has left the grassy knoll, and didn't leave a forwarding address with the illuminati. Perhaps he was kidnapped by the greys?
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He sounds just like the free energy people who claims they have a magic working device. But, they keep coming up with lame excuses why they just can't provide the proof of it despite how easy it would be to do so.
It would be easier and less stressful to provide proof then writing that post and running away...
He's either mentally ill or a fraudster. Or both.
If he's not Satoshi Nakamoto then logically he must be Spartacus.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
It must be interesting for the actual bitcoin creator to watch all of the drama around it unfold and wonder if you should say something or just continue to stay in the darkness. Do you laugh? Shake your head? Do you even care? Fun times.
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
In the scene where the judge ordered Walter and Margaret Keane to both paint something to prove they are the artist behind the big-eye paintings. Halfway through the hour allotted to him and with nothing on his canvas Walter turns to the judge and pretends he threw out his shoulder trying to lift the tiny paintbrush.
If one were Satoshi and found at this stage that he was "not strong enough to out himself", the logical course of action would be to backpedal and call the whole thing a hoax. After all, if the thing you were not strong enough to do was reveal your identity, continuing to assert that identity -- regardless of willingness to provide proof -- would be pretty silly.
This isn't the "not strong enough to do the right thing" move. It's the "got called on his BS and looking for a way to save face" move.
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We can all brain storm and dream up cool tech, but it's the folks that actually create it that should be credited. It's clear that CW had nothing to do with the development of the initial release, but it's likely that he knew the folks that did.
If he had come out publicly with an honest statement to that effect, he would have been received much differently. Instead, he chose to be dishonest and misleading, and there is no forgiveness for that.
If CW could cryptographically prove himself, then he wouldn't be attacked and/or chased away. I mean, without proof, what did he expect was going to happen?
...while I get my hip boots on.
....but seriously, who gives a shit who conceptualized it?
I have absolutely no idea if he is who he claimed to be or not. Nor do I even faintly care. I'm curious why other people care so much?
-Styopa
Don't hold your breath waiting for the media to learn.
"Hey, it's a tech thing we barely understand! Let's play spot the buzzword and write an article!"
"Hey, it's a medical thing we barely understand, but the word 'cancer' is in the article. Let's write an article how this causes and/or stops cancer in it's tracks!"
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
OK, so I'm not the only one wondering wtf this is news.
Ok, Bitcoins. Great. Use them. But do you really care who invented it? Why is that of ANY relevance whatsoever? As far as I'm concerned the Illuminati could have coined them together with the reptiloids under the supervision of the reverse vampires. If it's cryptographically safe and they can't trace it, it doesn't fucking matter whose idea it was.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
But maybe someone made a recent sell off of bitcoins since the nose-dive turn around in April after all this started to get cycled around the rumor mill?
One of the strong drivers of bitcoin's price is the news media...
There is no fading back to obscurity and re-anonymizing after making such extraordinary claims. You cannot unmake the claims.
is that he isn't the real Satoshi but a smoke screen to hide the fact that bitcoin was in fact a CIA/Central Banks project. ;)
There has been a Mr. Nakamoto who first 'admitted' that he was part of the project, but then later retracted that.
I think he was true, and that the project was to get a 'bottom up' financial semi-revolution going in order to enable a worldwide acceptance of virtual but perfectly traceable money, so that eventually, when we have been led into the 'cashless society', all our transactions can be traced and there is no escape whatsoever from the bank fees, bank tax, government tax etc. etc.
That must have been what Gavin Andresen has been doing the one or two times that he visited Langley. He must be in on the game, judging from the fact that he 'approved' the flawed signature that Wright presented. He can't have been that naive so he must have been in on the game.
Proof of this? None. Just my two cents. So now kill me, moderate me down and take away all my karma.
"Trump!!", the new Godwin.
I'm suspecting he realized he would be outed with the info he was about to provide for several major bit coin sales. Which probably went untaxed in Panama or some other remote haven for money laundering.
Lets see, Fame or prison... hmm.
But do you really care who invented it?
That nobody can seem to figure out who invented it is unusual and newsworthy.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
What a cumb dunt this guy is.
This is like something out of a William Gibson movie!
Someone invents a cybercurrency that gains widespread use, sticks it to the corrupt System and is going to change everything.
And the guy that invented it is a mystery.
Then St Germain comes out and says he invented it. But can't manage to do even the simplest of tasks that would prove his authorship.
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What exactly are you sorry for son?
People who are genuinely sorry attempt to fix the situation, where possible.
Given that fixing the situation would consist of exactly what he promised (loading up an old Bitcoin wallet and moving a fraction of a coin out of it to anywhere else), that would seem to indicate that he's NOT sorry and/or he's lying (i.e. he's lost the wallet or he has no such power and never did).
A puzzle unsolved is far more interesting than a puzzle solved.
I always think of the JFK assassination in these cases. The fact that Lee Harvey Oswald appears to have done it, yet we have numerous things that don't quite seem to add up, e.g. "the magic bullet," "the grassy knoll," etc., makes it far more interesting than the Lincoln assassination, where all the basic facts are pretty cut-and-dried.
Regardless of whether Wright is a con man or the real deal, he's clearly toying with us: his most recent statement seems more likely to spark our interest than to quell it.
He misspelled *private keys.* But he probably just typed that from a mobile device.
Most linux users don't know this, but the man pages were named after Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris fsck'ing hates noobs!
Oh, so all the unusual and curious stuff is now newsworthy, even if it can't possibly have any effect on us?
Next story is then "10 biggest freak accidents of all times", I guess? That's unusual and odd, so it's newsworthy.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The ONLY reason the real creator of bitcoin would want to reveal himself at this point is to capitalize on the notoriety. I mean, the technology is out there, it's not like he's going to ask for it all back. What possible reason would anyone have for proving he was the creator other than to put it on his resume and/or establish some credibility for a new enterprise. If that's what he wanted it for, he should have thought of that a long time ago and never gone stealth about it in the first place. So if this guy IS the creator of bitcoin, other than the creation of bitcoin itself, he's a moron. And I'd start to wonder if his idea regarding bitcoin was just a lucky fluke.
I'm more interested in WHY he's lying than IF he's lying, mainly because I think the IS lying.
Everyone seems to think that lying shows him as a fraud, but this is may be assumptive.
What if he is backing out, but for a completely different reason than he's willing to say. What if that's the lie, not the claim of authorship.
Any monetary system, even a secure one like bitcoin, can be exploited through the distribution of wealth in the corrupt economy. What I find more interesting is the fact that bitcoin is outside of the normal channels of bank tracing and manipulation. The banks can't trace where the money is going without extensive outside help from governments or the involvement of their own accounts in transactions. People often forget that the banks share a great deal of information with both the government and between each other. The flow of wealth is far more important to them than the actual dollar amounts.
I tend to think that bitcoin is a huge threat to them because it represents a critical information hole.
I also tend to think that they are not above extortion to 'prove' fraud and corruption to destroy bitcoin. Personally I'd be far more afraid of providing proof of my identity (and presumedly my integrity) to the public than of being e-bullied by trolls if the result could be the ire of the true power in the world.
My $0.02 will always be worth more than your â0.02, so
If it's cryptographically safe and they can't trace it, it doesn't fucking matter whose idea it was.
What if it has tracing built in, like... bitcoin?
But ever since I said I could levitate, everyone doubted me. They attacked me by saying "Well if you can levitate, prove it by levitating". I was going to levitate, but I just can't bear any more of these attacks on my character. If I proved I could levitate, people would just attack me even more by saying things like "Wow! You've proven you can actually levitate, you asshole. I hate you!" So I've decided I won't be levitating (even though I can). I'm so sorry that you'll never believe me now (because you are all stupid).
"Honey, have you seen the blue thumb drive?? The one with the genesis block keys? I can't find it ANYWHERE!"
Alien intelligences are communicating with us steganographically with messages encoded in typos in online messagebored postings.
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Think about it. It explains a lot of what you see on
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Normally, I think you're retarded. However, in this case, I'm not sure I understand why you were moderated down. You may have said something that someone doesn't like but that doesn't mean you're incorrect or trolling. There are many non-conformists involved and, at the end of the day, it really doesn't matter.
You also said the experts think he's real and, from what I've read, they do seem to think he's being honest about that - if not much else. Yes, others have expressed their disbelief and I have seen the very fucking word "conspiracy" used not once but *multiple* times.
How the fuck the mods decided your post should be at down-modded is beyond me. You might be facile, ignorant, and obtuse but you're absolutely not wrong in your above statements and moderation should be done (ideally and in my opinion) based on the content and not the person. Hmm... I'm not actually sure if that was a compliment or not. It's the best you're getting.
Seriously mods... It's true that the BTC thing has faults. It's true that it is not perfect. It's true that there are problems and that people will call them out. Rather than ignore them, work to fix them. Down-voting someone just because you don't like what they said is juvenile.
Because some folks read at -1, I'm going to go ahead and "fix" that so that it IS seen.
Darinbob had this to say:
The experts think he's real though. Which means that others don't believe it and think it's a conspiracy. But of course it's Bitcoin, which means first that all sorts of non-conformists are involved, and second that it doesn't really matter anyway.
How the fuck that's worth a -1 is beyond me. And, frankly, if you feel like moderating my post down then knock yourself out - I've got karma to burn and what's the point of karma if you can't spend it. And yes, yes i will spend it on behalf of someone who decided I'm a freak and put me on their foe list. (Or did I put them on the list? I'm pretty sure it doesn't matter - the feeling is mutual.)
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Oh, so all the unusual and curious stuff is now newsworthy, even if it can't possibly have any effect on us?
Yes, this is how it's been for the last 5000 years or so.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire