[2016-05-05] Is Dave Kleiman the Missing Link in Craig Wright's Satoshi Story?

Is Dave Kleiman the Missing Link in Craig Wright's Satoshi Story?

Of course, the fact that Ira Kleiman seems to be looking for a stash of bitcoins does not mean there are any to be found. As of last month, Ira had not yet filed an inventory of his brother’s “unknown assets” with the court. But if Dave Kleiman did possess a chunk of the Satoshi fortune when he died, that might explain the bizarre way in which Wright announced his own claim to having created the currency this week. Rather than sign a message with one of the keys that are publicly associated with Satoshi, or make a public transaction with some of Satoshi’s bitcoins—two methods that experts agree would make convincing proof—he posted a long, complicated message on his blog, based on a key signature that seems extremely likely to have been a forgery of some kind. If Craig Wright really is Satoshi, why didn’t he prove it in the simplest and most convincing way possible? Maybe because he doesn’t have access to those keys, or to those early bitcoins.

http://gizmodo.com/is-dave-kleiman-the-missing-link-in-craig-wrights-satos-1774519534