BREAKING NEWS: SATOSHI FINALLY REVEALED!

[Praxis]

just skimmed through the thread and couldn't find any proof (or an explanation of what it is.). the article are also lacking citations/sources for the important parts. so, bottom line, the media are just being stupid again, am I right?

You didn't find any proof because there is no proof.
It's another publicity stunt and the "journalists" of BBC ran it.

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[sotisoti]

Craig Uses notepad and the windows OS !!! How could anyone take him seriously?

Sources?

[Praxis]

Craig Uses notepad and the windows OS !!! How could anyone take him seriously?

Sources?

Check his blog.

[BitHodler]

It's all over the news here where they can now with "100%" accuracy say that he is really the man we all have been searching for as being Satoshi.

I knew the media was quick with reporting stuff that they didn't do some research on before airing the news, but this is even more ridiculous.

The tech departments of these massive scaled news channels show once again that they are severely lacking knowledge when it comes to Bitcoin.

[pbleak]

It is kind of brilliant how he gets his guff past the BBC tech-editor.

[jacktheking]

This news is going to pump (or maybe dump) Bitcoin price soon after it spread out into social media platform. Let's just hope that the price will go positive.

Aren't you able to check the live price from where you are? The price has already dropped and stabilised at around 440.

When the Americans wake up, the price should fall a little more.

Oh. I checked and the price now is at 239 USD. At the time of posting, I mean that the price will drop or go higher by a lot. And hence a few dollar decrease or increase does not matter much. Anyway, we may see some positive value after the west side of Earth wake up. :p.

[Bitware]

Wonder if anyone has informed the Australian Taxation Office about this...

[eerygarden]

Satoshi or not.... he seems like a bit of a cunt doesn't he?

[franky1]

he is not satoshi.

all he done was convert an old existing input script into base64..
he did not sign anything nor did he prove anything.

you too can be satoshi (by doing what Craig wright did)

go to
https://blockchain.info/tx/828ef3b079f9c23829c56fe86e85b4a69d9e06e5b54ea597eef5fb3ffef509fe?show_adv=true

copy the input script
3045022100c12a7d54972f26d14cb311339b5122f8c187417dde1e8efb6841f55c34220ae002206 6632c5cd4161efa3a2837764eee9eb84975dd54c2de2865e9752585c53e7cce01

google "hex to base64"
paste in the input script
convert

MEUCIQDBKn1Uly8m0UyzETObUSL4wYdBfd4ejvtoQfVcNCIK4AIgZmMsXNQWHvo6KDd2Tu6euEl13VT C3ihl6XUlhcU+fM4=
and now you have what appears to be a signature that is linked to satoshi funds.. and you never even needed a private key do to it

ask youself did you use a public key or private key. did it involve any sha or ECDSA process at all.. NO

i advise everyone to go to the media, contact section and message them of the fraud that craig wright is.

the only reason he is doing this is because he scammed some people into thinking he owns 1million bitcoins which he doesnt, but that blind ignorance caused those people to give him collateral based on the lie.. and now they are calling in the debt..

he fled australia to avoid immediate prosecution and is now trying to use the media as proof of ownership. without ever actually proving ownership

so please will everyone convert hex to base64 all the inputs of all satoshi funds to prove we are all satoshi..

craig wright deserves to be locked up because its not just identity fraud. the main thing is the millions of fiat he has scammed out of australian government and private investors using that id fraud, he has no bitcoin funds from 2009.

[zPanda]

This is utterly BS. Of course he isn't Satoshi. Just another con.

[Inedible]

I doubt that he's Satoshi Nakamoto & i bet Satoshi will send email which says "I'm Not Craig Wright"

That's not going to happen. He's never broken cover yet (and some believe he's dead), he's not likely to break cover for someone who claims to be him without a jot of evidence.

If he's real Satoshi, bitcoin price should be moving now.

It's already moved.

[Hatuferu]

Whoever he is, I think I could not believe that he is satoshi, why would he revealed himself now? what is his interest? He may an altcoins for bitcoin if you base him to bitcoin. But he looks convincing his story is near to reality but anyway I should be thankful of whoever really is satoshi because I made profit from bitcoin.

[hilariousandco]

just skimmed through the thread and couldn't find any proof (or an explanation of what it is.). the article are also lacking citations/sources for the important parts. so, bottom line, the media are just being stupid again, am I right?

Pretty much. Nothing was shown/proved in the BBC article. I'm sure a laymen could easily be fooled but what is more concerning is Gavin Andresen seemingly buying this bullshit. Very alarming.

What really Craig wants



Imagine how much hes gonna win on sign campaign 

Lol. I'm sure that account could be sold for a fair bit.

Satoshi or not.... he seems like a bit of a cunt doesn't he?

Yep. I really don't think the real satoshi would behave like this, though it's a good reason why he should likely remain anon. You could be the nicest/smartest guy in the world but people would still hate you for it.

[Bitcoinbro]

This is crazy its all over the news on the internet, I think its true they already had some proof and now it is officially.
I think this is also good for the bitcoin itself because its now gaining publicity.

[AlexGR]

This is interesting as well:

Gmaxwell R3KT - this criticism below seems reasonable and implies you have no clue how in PGP windows works, how about explaining this?

That document is a thoroughly confused rant written by some fraudster.

What the "paper" is pointing out is that although the hash preference list or "8 2 9 10 11" and the other metadata were not conceived of or implemented until a year after the claimed date (as I pointed out); it was possible, by a long series of complex manual commands to manually override the preferences and punch in whatever ones you wanted, even the 'future' ones.

You may note that it take great care to provide no citation to my actual comments, in fact it quotes me but uses an image for the text-- making it more difficult to even search for it. Allow me:

"The suspect keys claim to be October 2008; the commit was July 2009. So no, not without a time machine. It's possible that the settings could have been locally overridden to coincidentally the same defaults as now." https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3w027x/dr_craig_steven_wright_alleged_satoshi_by_wired/cxsm1yo?context=2

-- so the whole theory that this "paper" writes for pages and pages as if it were some great concealment on my part is a possibility I explicitly pointed out.

The problem with it is that it requires the user to have executed a long series of complex commands to override the preferences and have to have guessed the exact selection and ordering of the preferences that wouldn't be written for a year-- when if they preferred a particular cypher they would more likely have taken the existing "2 8 3" and stuck their choice on the front.  Not only that, but they would have had to have done so on the same day that they created a totally ordinary key and published it, yet this other key-- which looks exactly like one created with post-2009 software and entirely unlike the well known one-- was provided to no one for years, not placed on public key servers and until now and otherwise has no evidence of its prior existence. Come on, give me a break.

It's "possible", a fact a pointed out explicitly back then, but this possibility thoroughly fails Occam's razor-- especially on top of the evidence presented by others: Archive.org showed the subtle "hint dropping" added in blog entries was back-dated, added in 2013, SGI reported that the published letter on their letterhead was fake, the lack of cogent technical commentary from that party, etc.

Bringing it back on topic, I'd say that it's surprising that all these Bitcoin Classic folks believe such tripe, but in the context of all the other incompetent nonsense they believe, it doesn't seem so surprising.

And now:

http://www.economist.com/news/briefings/21698061-craig-steven-wright-claims-be-satoshi-nakamoto-bitcoin

In an article in the press kit accompanying the publication of his blog post, he takes aim at Gregory Maxwell, one of the leading bitcoin developers, who first claimed that the cryptographic keys in Mr Wright’s leaked documents were backdated. “Even experts have agendas,” he writes, “and the only means to ensure that trust is valid is to hold experts to a greater level of scrutiny.”

The whole "do this, do that" step-by-step in Wright's blog reminds me of this: https://www.scribd.com/doc/306521425/Appeal-to-Authority-a-Failure-of-Trust

...although they both fail spectacularly in terms of substance. So, with the attack on authority, now these 2 things seem connected, and then you have Gavin on top of it. wtf...

[mikegogulski]

Craig: Hi.

Gavin: Who r u?

Craig: I'm Satoshi.

Gavin: Ok, sign this with the privkey to the coinbase in the genesis block: "I, Craig Steven Wright, am Satoshi Nakamoto. 1 May 2016."

Craig: Nah, why don't I fly you to London and I'll show you.

Gavin: Sounds great! I love London!

Craig: lol

Gavin: lol

[stereotype]

Satoshi or not.... he seems like a bit of a cunt doesn't he?

I will admit to thinking the same!

[partysaurus]

i read the article did the reporters get any kind of proof , becuse it seems like its all a hoax like before :S but i guess he showed them some proof.

[pawel7777]

Is it possible Gavin was hacked and the blog post was made by someone else?

https://mobile.twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/727078284345917441

FYI, @gavinandresen's commit access just got removed - Core team members are concerned that he may have been hacked.

Doubt it tho, as it looks like his writing style.

[kik1977]

Craig: Hi.

Gavin: Who r u?

Craig: I'm Satoshi.

Gavin: Ok, sign this with the privkey to the coinbase in the genesis block: "I, Craig Steven Wright, am Satoshi Nakamoto. 1 May 2016."

Craig: Nah, why don't I fly you to London and I'll show you.

Gavin: Sounds great! I love London!

Craig: lol

Gavin: lol

LOL