GAVIN: "I believe Craig Steven Wright is the person who invented Bitcoin"

[rat]

NOT



IS

[RawDog]

Did he get hit in the face with an ax?

[Praxis]

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

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

[DimensionZ]

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

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

What's going on guys I don't understand this. At first Gavin said he believes Craig is Satoshi now he may have been hacked. Is this another stunt attempt at a fake Satoshi Nakamoto imposter? Everything seems kinda fishy to me. Do you find the news conclusive enough to declare Craig Wright to be the real Satoshi Nakamoto?

[Praxis]

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

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

What's going on guys I don't understand this. At first Gavin said he believes Craig is Satoshi now he may have been hacked. Is this another stunt attempt at a fake Satoshi Nakamoto imposter? Everything seems kinda fishy to me. Do you find the conclusive enough to declare Craig Wright the real Satoshi Nakamoto?

Yeah, it is a stunt. People/media are hungry for BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!! Nobody their due diligence. Especially the "journalists" of BBC and CNN

[franky1]

What's going on guys I don't understand this. At first Gavin said he believes Craig is Satoshi now he may have been hacked. Is this another stunt attempt at a fake Satoshi Nakamoto imposter? Everything seems kinda fishy to me. Do you find the news conclusive enough to declare Craig Wright to be the real Satoshi Nakamoto?

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.. (australian government handedhim millions of australian dollars.)

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.

[RealBitcoin]

This hoax is very elaborate. So now Gavin is also in the same boat as this guy?

Gavin was a great developer once, but now he is just promoting hoaxes, it makes me feel unconfortable.

[kelsey]

This hoax is very elaborate. So now Gavin is also in the same boat as this guy?

why not? then he gets to hide the real satoshi and can have this wright guy support his plans (to sway people).

makes sense

[alyssa85]

This hoax is very elaborate. So now Gavin is also in the same boat as this guy?

Gavin was a great developer once, but now he is just promoting hoaxes, it makes me feel unconfortable.

Or he got hacked - it happens. If you were trying to prove you were Satoshi, you too would hack someone well known to try to bolster your case. Sucks for the victim though.

[RealBitcoin]

This hoax is very elaborate. So now Gavin is also in the same boat as this guy?

why not? then he gets to hide the real satoshi and can have this wright guy support his plans (to sway people).

makes sense

Who knows but Gavin in the recent past had a bad habit of promoting awful bitcoin scaling methods.

So could this be an elaborate conspiracy to promote Bitcoin Classic/Unlimited/XT ?

[mayax]

The Bitcoin era as it is, it will be ended very soon. The myth disappeared. BTC is like any shitcoin

[alyssa85]

Gavin has responded on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4hfyyo/gavin_can_you_please_detail_all_parts_of_the/d2plygg

Craig signed a message that I chose ("Gavin's favorite number is eleven. CSW" if I recall correctly) using the private key from block number 1.

That signature was copied on to a clean usb stick I brought with me to London, and then validated on a brand-new laptop with a freshly downloaded copy of electrum.

I was not allowed to keep the message or laptop (fear it would leak before Official Announcement).

I don't have an explanation for the funky OpenSSL procedure in his blog post.

[alyssa85]

Gavin has responded on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4hfyyo/gavin_can_you_please_detail_all_parts_of_the/d2plygg

Craig signed a message that I chose ("Gavin's favorite number is eleven. CSW" if I recall correctly) using the private key from block number 1.

That signature was copied on to a clean usb stick I brought with me to London, and then validated on a brand-new laptop with a freshly downloaded copy of electrum.

I was not allowed to keep the message or laptop (fear it would leak before Official Announcement).

I don't have an explanation for the funky OpenSSL procedure in his blog post.

If this is true then I believe Craig has bought the key from the owner of whoever mined block one, bitcoin was public by then. We know that the Genesis block is Satoshi's not block one. This seems like a large planned ruse from Craig to gain some sort of fame.

Who mined block one? Was it Hal?

One way to prove that this is really Satoshi is for him to move the coins from the Genesis block...

[Carlton Banks]

One way to prove that this is really Satoshi is for him to move the coins from the Genesis block...

That's not possible, deliberately so lol

[eyeknock]

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

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

thats made me laught

btw why would Mr S.N. contact with that guy "gavin" before anyone from the core team? didnt he probe that he is not the "best" guy to contact ATM?

Or you know, sign the genesis block correctly.

maybe he cant, who know... 

[TheLittleDuke]

Until he actually transfer coins I'll remain skeptical...

After all, "Proof of Ownership" has been demonstrated on the chain that way since TX1

-dvd

[ebliever]

This is ridiculous. If I wanted to write a primer on how NOT to unambiguously prove you are Satoshi, in a way causing maximum confusion, this would be it.

Either Craig is able to publish a digital signature of the Genesis block or Block 9 or whatever for EVERYONE to see, or this is another scam. Asking us to rely on trusting a 3rd party (Gavin, etc.) is PRECISELY what bitcoin was designed not to be.

Never underestimate the ability of scammers to provide seeming "proofs" that are invalid. It is perfectly reasonable to ask for published signatures for all to see, and excuses about "being difficult" (in Wright's blog post) don't cut it.

[alyssa85]

btw why would Mr S.N. contact with that guy "gavin" before anyone from the core team? didnt he probe that he is not the "best" guy to contact ATM?

Because the original Satoshi turned everything over to Gavin. The only reason the Core team have access is because Gavin invited them in. If he hadn't there wouldn't be any Core at all.

The only people Satoshi had contact with were Hal Finney and Gavin, and Hal is dead.

[BTCLovingDude]

Gavin has responded on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4hfyyo/gavin_can_you_please_detail_all_parts_of_the/d2plygg

Craig signed a message that I chose ("Gavin's favorite number is eleven. CSW" if I recall correctly) using the private key from block number 1.

That signature was copied on to a clean usb stick I brought with me to London, and then validated on a brand-new laptop with a freshly downloaded copy of electrum.

I was not allowed to keep the message or laptop (fear it would leak before Official Announcement).

I don't have an explanation for the funky OpenSSL procedure in his blog post.

this sounds like the stupidest thing to me.
we are talking about bitcoin here so all those news sites that are spreading this news should start with a signed message from the known satoshi bitcoin addresses or keys.

hiding it and not publishing the singed message publicly sounds to me like a shady thing.

[RodeoX]

What I don't get is the USB is carried to London but what is on it is kept a secret from all but a few? Why not just PUBLICLY show us all? What kind of proof is showing someone then saying "Go ask him, he knows".

Come on Craig, show me the bitcoin!