Has Wired discovered the real Satoshi Nakamoto? (.. this time)

[vilain]

sure its a hoax

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/satoshis-pgp-keys-are-probably-backdated-and-point-to-a-hoax?trk_source=recommended

I believe it's pretty clear now that it's a nasty hoax!!

I wonder why the price isn't falling since it went up after this "revelation"

[StarsSkySolutions]

btw this story is day-by-day more complicated and fascinating.

[fibotrails]

POPCORN!

[Paul Revere]

POPCORN!

Yes indeed. It is pretty clear now that Craig Wright != Satoshi Nakamoto , but that does not detract from the legs this saga has. Any futher developments concerning the possibility that Craig Wright = Mystery #1 whale GAW/ Paycoin investor Craig and/or Hashtalker Tankjnr? That connection alone would make popcorn sales moon for sure.

[AtheistAKASaneBrain]

UPDATE: Friday, Dec. 11, 4:24 p.m.: Charles Sturt University denies some of Craig Wright's claims regarding his education at the university, including that he completed a thesis.

epic! lol

Jesus Christ, this gets more and more surreal every day I wake up after the incident, it's like new stuff gets discovered that points to a massive, almost genius hoax, too bad he didn't tie all the clues because this could have been absolutely epic, well he got pretty far to be honest, tricked a lot of people the first hours.

The more I hear about this guy the more I don't want him to be Satoshi (kill my newbie btc messiah dream it would)

I mean wtf they have not even started to dig into his 'private life' yet....I mean say they found out he was 'buddies' with ..Jarred (the subway sandwich spokesman) with proof of child
porn or something

humans are 'messy' would hope that Satoshi always stays anonymous would be the most 'sane' thing he could do after inventing bitcoin!

But whoever Satoshi is he 'essentially'  is just ' a human' and any normal stuff in his past (bad day at work, firing someone, divorce, child ran away,) etc the press FUD would suck!

My god what if they found out Satoshi was a US Citizen and a major "Donald Trump for President" supporter..worldwide BTC price would TANK! (scared self)

My one small hope is at least it is looking likely it is NOT this wright character ..a guy can hope that is such anyway...Satoshi you can ALWAYS tell me ..I would
keep your secret to the grave ...just to chat you up ..HONEST!.......so on any urge to spill your guts on your secret identity PM me 1st so I can frigging talk you out of it!

Don't worry, it's clear now that this guy is not Satoshi, it's impossible to claim that since there are way too many contradicting points, so even if it was, it's impossible to prove it, which means Satoshi will forever remain a mystery. It's clear that magazines and specially governments want something juicy, be it tax evasion, drugs, illegal porn, or whatever, to try to ruin Bitcoin's reputation, but it's not gonna work.

[Rampion]

too bad he didn't tie all the clues because this could have been absolutely epic, well he got pretty far to be honest, tricked a lot of people the first hours.

Don't get fooled: every single individual with an above average knowledge about bitcoin (let's say 0,5% of the world population) knew this was just an hoax from the very first minute because of the faked proofs + a completely wrong "intellectual signature" for this guy to be satoshi (even Wired acknowledged in the very first article that this looked like an elaborate hoax), BUT the irrefutable fact is that this Craig guy has fully accomplished his mission. From now on, he can subtly imply that he is Satoshi to 99,5% of the world, and 99,5% of the world will believe him because they will google his name and they will see that Craig's name has been linked to Satoshi on the mainstream press, worldwide.

Keep in mind that 99,5% of the world population doesn't know what's PGP and and how easy is to backdate keys, 99,5% of the world population did not read Satoshi's paper or Satoshi's posts on bitcointalk, 99,5% of the world population cannot tell the difference between "satoshi@vistomail.com" and "satoshin@vistomail.com", 99,5% of the world population has no clue about cryptography or distributed systems and thus they cannot realize that most of Craig's talk on the matter is mumbo-jumbo, summing it up 99,5% of the world population has not enough knowledge to clearly see the truth on this matter.

At the end of the day this guy will go on forever scamming people by making them believe he is Satoshi. He will tell his friends, he will tell potential business partners, he will even tell regulators and tax offices. And because of the irresponsible journalists looking for clicks I can guarantee you that most of his scam targets will end up believing him.

[Literaryagents]

OBVIOUS FRAUD

His lame LinkedIn profile that is now hidden gave it all away

The real Satoshi wouldn't be such an obvious scammer

But he sure may get lots of investors now in his BS companies to 'think' he's the 'genius' Satoshi

PT Barnum pegged this guy for sure

[Syke]

badgerkiller is most likely Bruce Peterson of BFL

Wow, it sure does sound like bcp19 is back. Welcome back old buddy!

[redsn0w]

Nah ... I don't think he is 'satoshi' and wired hasn't discovered the real nakamoto !

[thejaytiesto]

sure its a hoax

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/satoshis-pgp-keys-are-probably-backdated-and-point-to-a-hoax?trk_source=recommended

I believe it's pretty clear now that it's a nasty hoax!!

I wonder why the price isn't falling since it went up after this "revelation"

Because the price didn't go up because this or that crappy magazine claimed that they found satoshi nakamoto, the price went up for real reasons, like the chinese trying to save their wealth from their goverment:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-11/bitcoin-breaks-out-higher-after-china-announces-crackdown-unionpay-pos-devices

[chek2fire]

Epic Fail for Wired and Gizmodo. We will remember this failure for years

[favdesu]

sure its a hoax

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/satoshis-pgp-keys-are-probably-backdated-and-point-to-a-hoax?trk_source=recommended

I believe it's pretty clear now that it's a nasty hoax!!

I wonder why the price isn't falling since it went up after this "revelation"

Because the price didn't go up because this or that crappy magazine claimed that they found satoshi nakamoto, the price went up for real reasons, like the chinese trying to save their wealth from their goverment:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-11/bitcoin-breaks-out-higher-after-china-announces-crackdown-unionpay-pos-devices

great find. sounds far more reasonable than price race due to non-nakamoto

[Sir_lagsalot]

I really don't think so. No one thinks so. If he is, he has to prove it. Tell him to sign a PGP key of a proven satoshi bitcoin address. Wired has failed once, they can fail again (and probably have).

Even satoshi has spoken out from his vistomail account, saying Craig isn't satoshi. But it's also probable that the vistomail account was hacked.

[Searing]

sure its a hoax

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/satoshis-pgp-keys-are-probably-backdated-and-point-to-a-hoax?trk_source=recommended

I believe it's pretty clear now that it's a nasty hoax!!

I wonder why the price isn't falling since it went up after this "revelation"

Because the price didn't go up because this or that crappy magazine claimed that they found satoshi nakamoto, the price went up for real reasons, like the chinese trying to save their wealth from their goverment:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-11/bitcoin-breaks-out-higher-after-china-announces-crackdown-unionpay-pos-devices

Well that is a question ...... The Chinese from what I understand recently have 'loosened' the use of BTC ..and example was they allow you to link your bank account
to an exchange again...stuff like that

So what 'tools' if any (great firewall of China and all that) can Chinese Goverment use to 'throttle' Bitcoin as a way of China folk getting money out of China post haste?

I assume they would again say no linkage of bank accounts to exchanges and/other stuff they did before ..previously now looser...also the gread FUD war would start
again about 'btc being evil' etc

OR have they just plain 'wised up' and are gonna try to 'regulate' it more like the USA does with the Tax Man.....you lie ...we find out....you pay for it?

Anyway wondering how much 'control' they have being a closed controlled economy and with the great firewall of china etc perhaps they have more options to crack down on BTC

[disclaimer201]

What is interesting about this story is that it reminds a lot of people that BTC was pre-mined like any other scammy altcoin. It isn't unthinkable that SN had other intentions than changing the world for better and I got to think a bit about his Jesus-our savior status. The scammer persona is much more human and likely, I'm afraid. Bitcoin is a piece of technology and was created by humans, not a god. Humans are erroneous.

Having said that, evidence speaks against Mr. Wright unless any of the (pre-mined) coins are moved or a signed message is received. If any of that ever happens, all hell will break lose and I'm sure we would end up with a bit of panic. Until that day...keep cool and enjoy the ride.

[Beliathon]

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/bitcoins-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-is-probably-this-unknown-australian-genius/

No.

[Beliathon]

What is interesting about this story is that it reminds a lot of people that BTC was pre-mined like any other scammy altcoin.

The difference Bitcoin and your average scamcoin is that those early mined coins have never been touched - not a single Satoshi. Shitcoin shills always sell their coins for $$$.

[disclaimer201]

What is interesting about this story is that it reminds a lot of people that BTC was pre-mined like any other scammy altcoin.

The difference Bitcoin and your average scamcoin is that those early mined coins have never been touched - not a single Satoshi. Shitcoin shills always sell their coins for $$$.

Agreed. Perhaps "pre-mined" is an absurd term. There has never been anything comparable before and anyone who knew about it could mine it. Obviously, only very few people knew about it on launch day. Even many early miners didn't take their mined coins seriously.... until they were suddenly worth something.

[alterbcp19]

badgerkiller is most likely Bruce Peterson of BFL

Wow, it sure does sound like bcp19 is back. Welcome back old buddy!

Don't go calling him buddy. He might get the wrong idea. He must have really loved those 2 BTC he got from Sonny seeing how he's still playing the same tune even though BFL is practically dead.

[Amph]

What is interesting about this story is that it reminds a lot of people that BTC was pre-mined like any other scammy altcoin.

The difference Bitcoin and your average scamcoin is that those early mined coins have never been touched - not a single Satoshi. Shitcoin shills always sell their coins for $$$.

do we have any proof that every single coin from satoshi was not dumped at some point?

i remember not all the coins from him were retrievable, especially those that were mined with other users that joined the network in 2010