POLL Is Craig Wright Satoshi Nakamoto?

[Mr Felt]

You'd have to be a fucking retard to think this guy was SN.

You made the New Yorker; I'm not joking:
http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/bizarre-saga-craig-wright-latest-inventor-bitcoin?intcid=mod-latest

[chek2fire]

First time i read this story i was near to accept that this guy is Satoshi. Now i say that this guy is only a scammer

[knightkon]

Look into his records and also into his alibi.  With his movement and business ventures when this was launched, it almost makes it impossible for him to be Satoshi Nakamoto.  I have said this before in other posts, Satoshi Nakamoto is not an individual. 

[AtheistAKASaneBrain]

Look into his records and also into his alibi.  With his movement and business ventures when this was launched, it almost makes it impossible for him to be Satoshi Nakamoto.  I have said this before in other posts, Satoshi Nakamoto is not an individual. 

But if he is not only one person, chances are that it would have leaked already. The only way to stay truly anonymous at Satoshi levels for so many years, is not telling anyone that you are satoshi, if you tell someone even your best friend and member of the team, inside info may end up leaking, so there is a strong possibility Satoshi is only one person because of this imo.

[Searing]

Look into his records and also into his alibi.  With his movement and business ventures when this was launched, it almost makes it impossible for him to be Satoshi Nakamoto.  I have said this before in other posts, Satoshi Nakamoto is not an individual.  

But if he is not only one person, chances are that it would have leaked already. The only way to stay truly anonymous at Satoshi levels for so many years, is not telling anyone that you are satoshi, if you tell someone even your best friend and member of the team, inside info may end up leaking, so there is a strong possibility Satoshi is only one person because of this imho.

Likely the person that passed away that was quoted as also involved in making Bitcoin was the MAIN guy doing so. I'm beginning to think it is something like that. Too bad the myth if it is really this guy is gonna get pretty tattered...being just another human and all.

The actual 'interesting' part that would happen is IF he proved he was Satoshi and then had to go to court and deal with all the Australian Tax issues...and say he was convicted and had to settle with them....300,000 to 1,000,000 million BTC seized by Australian Tax Authorities and auction would really liven up the BTC world. (can you say 50 buck btc again?)

Would not bode well to have him be an unstable scumbag who goes FU and tries to sell all the BTC at once just to truly play 'anarchist'  if not this guy say they find someone else is Satoshi always a danger of something like this (slight thou it may be)

(should get popcorn the possibilities of all this going 'pear shaped' has all the horror of a horror movie..and makes me crave popcorn (off to make popcorn good to have a goal)

[Dreamofbtcman]

im new. idk who craig wright is or satoshi nakamoto is. do i need to? do i need to care even after knowing?

the software is good and thats all that matters. imo.

[tat123]

im new. idk who craig wright is or satoshi nakamoto is. do i need to? do i need to care even after knowing?

the software is good and thats all that matters. imo.

Of course you need to know! You should also know how I take my coffee. Double, Double.

[quentincole32]

i choose no,no doubt. and the poll is also have 96 person dont agree.
its hard to believe if craig wright is satoshi nakamoto.

[mmortal03]

(C01n Ltd) - Director Profile
Dr. Craig Steven Wright
Organisation   C01n Ltd
Service Address   Suite 502 / Level 5
32 Delhi Rd North Ryde, Nsw Australia
Organisation Type   Private Limited Company
Industries   Computer Programming Activities
Dormant Company
Net Assets   £38,508,838
Headquarters Location   London, United Kingdom

Currently operates the only private Supercomputer in the Top 100 Global Supercomputers.
Supercomputer Listing: http://www.top500.org/site/50547

PS... he claimed in the video that he has relocated to Iceland in order to take advantage of their environment, which is most suitable for operating a supercomputer.   He said he was about to launch an even larger one there.

All of this should be easily verifiable.  I think we will soon know.

It's looking like no: http://www.zdnet.com/article/sgi-denies-links-with-alleged-bitcoin-founder-craig-wright/

How might he have faked such a nonexistent supercomputer's Linpack performance? Well, according to top500.org, they only verify a *sample* of the systems in their database, not the entire list each time, so maybe he just got lucky and his system wasn't selected the three times it made the list? Maybe he figured out some other way to not have to verify it with them?

From: http://www.top500.org/project/call_for_participation/

In addition to cross checking different sources of information, we select randomly a statistical representative sample of the first 500 systems of our database. For these systems we ask the supplier of the information to establish direct contact between the installation site and us to verify the given information. This gives us basic information about the quality of the list in total.

It'd be interesting to find out from the following person if they ever selected his supercomputer for Linpack performance testing.

Performance numbers for the Linpack benchmark are collected and updated by Jack Dongarra (dongarra@cs.utk.edu). Please report any Linpack performance numbers directly to him.

[MaritiJames3]

I think he is. There are just to many things that can't be a coincidence.
He being mr. Satoshi has given Bitcoin a new dimension. But only the future can tell if he is it.
From what he said in the wired article (some secrects are best kept hidden), we should probably respect his anonimity.

[mmortal03]

I think he is. There are just to many things that can't be a coincidence.
He being mr. Satoshi has given Bitcoin a new dimension. But only the future can tell if he is it.
From what he said in the wired article (some secrects are best kept hidden), we should probably respect his anonimity.

Read the last two paragraphs of the following and tell me that he's Satoshi, and not a scammer just throwing around jargon to sound important: http://web.archive.org/web/20151121023834/http://cloudcroft.com.au/blog_ceoupdatenextfiveyears.php

[larem]

To me, the evidence is against him being Satoshi. It seems like an elaborate plot for recognition (fame? Fortune from being picked up by a great company? Influence on the block size debate?).

[repentance]

And the motivation for Craig Wright to pretend to be Satoshi Nakamoto was to scam the Australian Tax Office out out 10's of millions in Research & Development tax rebates.

I don't think that was the entirety of the scam.  I suspect that at least part of the scam - and perhaps the most important part - was to get Bitcoin from others on the pretext of backing Denariuz.  We've seen how easily "investors" can be convinced to part with their Bitcoin in the past.  Saying you received $54 million in credits from the ATO lends an air of legitimacy, as does saying you're going to launch with a pool of 100,000 BTC but it's all self-referential stuff with the smell of smoke and mirrors.

This isn't going to be a fast investigation, but it will be interesting to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

I'd take any claims by Wright, including the claim that he contributed $23 million in Bitcoin to Hotwire, with a grain of salt until such time as his financial dealings have been verified by forensic accountants.

[Searing]

And the motivation for Craig Wright to pretend to be Satoshi Nakamoto was to scam the Australian Tax Office out out 10's of millions in Research & Development tax rebates.

I don't think that was the entirety of the scam.  I suspect that at least part of the scam - and perhaps the most important part - was to get Bitcoin from others on the pretext of backing Denariuz.  We've seen how easily "investors" can be convinced to part with their Bitcoin in the past.  Saying you received $54 million in credits from the ATO lends an air of legitimacy, as does saying you're going to launch with a pool of 100,000 BTC but it's all self-referential stuff with the smell of smoke and mirrors.

This isn't going to be a fast investigation, but it will be interesting to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

I'd take any claims by Wright, including the claim that he contributed $23 million in Bitcoin to Hotwire, with a grain of salt until such time as his financial dealings have been verified by forensic accountants.

Could be simple extortion..they knew he was an 'early adopter' the hacker dug in and saw 'boasts' or whatever of him being satoshi....he probably said FU because he is not Satoshi and they hung him out to dry on his other endeavors......would be a good lesson to satoshi out there..ie pay the btc fine

[calkob]

from what ive read it seems pretty convincing, i know some have said about the emails being fake and some ot the forum posts have been edited, but i would gave to say it the most convincing so far.......

[Searing]

from what ive read it seems pretty convincing, i know some have said about the emails being fake and some ot the forum posts have been edited, but i would gave to say it the most convincing so far.......

yeah but again a hacker finds emails on some early adopter guy he plans to exploit/blackmail ...and finds he is bragging he is satoshi (so he can do his scams and convice australian tax folk on the 45 million in tax credits etc)

so the hacker tries to blackmail him on such...now it comes out .....he does not pay because wright knows he really is not satoshi no matter what his bragging emails say...nade .he has shady biz dealings and lying or implying he is satoshi on top of it....just saying is a scamer (hacker) found another scammer (wright) it could shake out like that (assuming wright did not want any of this info out 1) his biz dealings that look shady and or 2) his private implies that he is satoshi..he got targeted by hacker because he was an early adopter..hacker thinks "jackpot' wright tells hacker to screw off..hacker has a lot more stuff then wright realizes...ie wright is now screwed on two fronts by his own words 1) tax folk 2) implies he is (but not) satoshi

I will be annoyed if he is satoshi.....you think the press FUD on gox and such was wild...wait for 1 year of a trial for tax fraud on the founder of Bitcoin.....the press fud will sell much in advertising......much rejoicing in the yellow journalism world.....

[yefi]

from what ive read it seems pretty convincing, i know some have said about the emails being fake and some ot the forum posts have been edited, but i would gave to say it the most convincing so far.......

There is only one true contender, and it isn't this joker.

[larem]

from what ive read it seems pretty convincing, i know some have said about the emails being fake and some ot the forum posts have been edited, but i would gave to say it the most convincing so far.......

The altered data is what makes it fairly obvious he ISN'T the original. The real Satoshi would be able to sign a message.

[TheMage]

I think he is. There are just to many things that can't be a coincidence.
He being mr. Satoshi has given Bitcoin a new dimension. But only the future can tell if he is it.
From what he said in the wired article (some secrects are best kept hidden), we should probably respect his anonimity.

Read the last two paragraphs of the following and tell me that he's Satoshi, and not a scammer just throwing around jargon to sound important: http://web.archive.org/web/20151121023834/http://cloudcroft.com.au/blog_ceoupdatenextfiveyears.php

This right here sealed the deal for me, Craig Wright is not Satoshi.

to be released and commercialised

[lolgato]

I think he is. There are just to many things that can't be a coincidence.
He being mr. Satoshi has given Bitcoin a new dimension. But only the future can tell if he is it.
From what he said in the wired article (some secrects are best kept hidden), we should probably respect his anonimity.

Read the last two paragraphs of the following and tell me that he's Satoshi, and not a scammer just throwing around jargon to sound important: http://web.archive.org/web/20151121023834/http://cloudcroft.com.au/blog_ceoupdatenextfiveyears.php

This right here sealed the deal for me, Craig Wright is not Satoshi.

to be released and commercialised

This solidified that he is not satoshi and never will be.