This came across my eye today and thought it was worth posting here. It's Square's pushback to a letter sent by Craig's lawyers demanding they remove a hosted copy of the white paper. Their response is that the basis of the claim is not factually represented and have a well-thought list of questions that Satoshi could answer, if Craig were indeed Satoshi:




I doubt they'll respond, of course, but they're pretty legit questions nontheless.

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I’ll answer.

Oh my gorsh, what have I done? To the Internet!  Yikes. I’m sorry. I actually forgot all about Bitcoin until last week.  Is what the real Satoshi would say.  He would also also blurt out in court under oath:

1. Like I always said, I didn’t know what I was searching for but I knew it was very important.  I came up with “the solution” to the myriad problems we face in a digital world, after 10 odd years of thinking about it and talking my colleagues ears off in crazy rants while filling up white boards with indecipherable nonsense during many all-night benders. Like God and nature intended. Defining a simple self-correcting ruleset allowing for complex emergent behavior. Biomimicry. A fabric for virtual reality. A balance to the force. Truth. Justice. Freedom. Grateful death.
2. Summer 2007, pretty sure.
3. My office.
4. Had some help with that.
5. After my initial ASCII whitepapers with the big logo, I may have produced an upgraded bitmap version with my girlfriend.  Since I’d only taken the first few weeks of a free online cryptography course I knew I didn’t know a lot, so I sought the help of smarter math-crypto-programmers who I knew would know what to do and handed them the keys for free. (A frequent hobby.  vaping *cough* Felix’s energy patent *cough* humdinger *achoo*)
6. I choose other.
7. Self employed.
8. Yes.
9. I released it to the public domain to maintain the game, Mang.

BTW, that faggot Craig “El Psychonaught” Wright didn’t have anything to do with bitcoin until Satoshi propositioned him via Skype in 2011-2012 to post ads looking for $1 billion VC for all Nakamoto IP.  He reposted the full text of Satoshi’s example ad, the amounts of two possibly real bitcoin wallets and corresponding real signatures.  I notice they claim EmptyGOX lost them to badguys, about the exact same day they were required in court.  Hmm.  I wonder if Craig’s Skype records match Satoshi’s.  If Craig could show that was true, would he be innocent of fraud charges, acting as Satoshi’s authorized representative?  Do it Craig! Fess up. It’s your only chance.

-GT

p.s. Cut Craig some slack. It’s not all his fault.