Edit: I have withdrawn the flag and no longer support it; see here for details.MicroGuy is a long-time member of the forum (since 2013) who has primarily promoted
Goldcoin (GLC) through the history of his years at the forum. He hasn't been active much this year, but came back in mid April to start
promoting an update to Goldcoin.
On April 23rd, he made
this post, which is now deleted, but this is an archived copy of the post:
Risking life and limb here to get the truth out. I hope the moderators will have the bravery and courage to let this post stand.
YouTube Video: The Killing of Satoshi Nakamoto
YouTube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgXrsqiUKMc&tThank you one and all and ESPECIALLY Cobra!
The YouTube video is now deleted, but in it he basically riffed on how Satoshi Nakamoto was a "friend" of his, as they are listed as "
friends" on the P2P Foundation website. Without mentioning the name of Craig Wright business partner Dave Kleiman, he basically asserts that Satoshi was Dave Kleiman, and that Satoshi died under mysterious circumstances, "covered in feces." Kleiman did die a horrible death in April 2013, but there is zero evidence that he was Satoshi -- just some documents backdated and signed using a font by Craig Wright. He even went so far as to say the judge in the Kleiman v. Wright case ruled that the duo comprised "Satoshi," which is categorically false:
He's since deleted all posts he's made on the forum about him being a "friend" of Satoshi, but here is an quoted version of such a post:
Satoshi who friended me years ago on P2P Foundation was actually a group.
He repeated this claim in a few different posts - including one in the Goldcoin thread - and deleted all of them, but he continues to post about it on
Twitter; in this example he is defending himself from the negative trusts recently placed on his account:
I notice he's also mentioned it in various other Goldcoin groups to his followers, which makes it all the more obvious that he is using his supposed "connection" to Satoshi in order to promote Goldcoin (which he has been heavily invested in for a number of years - here is a good
background story on the matter).
So, is there a chance that the
real Satoshi actually added MicroGuy (Greg Matthews) on P2P Foundation?
The answer is
no. We know:
1. Greg Matthews wasn't "added" by Satoshi until sometime between
Oct. 22nd and
Dec. 23rd 2014, which can be verified by looking at the linked web archives of
this page, when Satoshi's friend count jumps from 2 to 12.
2. This is years after Satoshi had gone totally silent. The last communication from Satoshi was in 2011 when he famously communicated to Mike Hearn that he "
had moved on to other things."
3. Satoshi's P2P Foundation account was hacked* in early September 2014, and on September 9th the hacker
posted a message using Satoshi's account on the P2P Foundation forum:
https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/satoshi-nakamotos-account-hacked/2014/09/09It appears that Satoshi Nakamoto’s GMX email account, which he originally used to announce Bitcoin in the P2P Foundation’s Ning forum, has been hacked. The hacker has used the account to post a warning to Satoshi in our forum...
“Dear Satoshi. Your dox, passwords and IP addresses are being sold on the darknet. Apparently you didn’t configure Tor properly and your IP leaked when you used your email account sometime in 2010. You are not safe. You need to get out of where you are as soon as possible before these people harm you. Thank you for inventing Bitcoin.”
The hacker then left a
Pastebin post saying he would release his data on Satoshi if 25 BTC was sent to his address, and even
threatened theymos on the same day.
Given the contents of the P2P Foundation post, it is quite obvious that it was not
the Satoshi who was in control of the account in September 2014, and therefore it was not
the Satoshi who added Greg Matthews (MicroGuy) in October-December 2014.
TL;DR: MicroGuy made a false claim that he was friends with Satoshi Nakamoto, who he says "friended" him on the P2P Foundation forum, in order to attempt to pump Goldcoin.
Because this behavior is highly untrustworthy, I think people should be warned against investing in Goldcoin on a false premise that he was actually acquaintances with Satoshi (he was not). I have opened a flag on MicroGuy which is here.*it could very well be that the
satoshin@gmx.com address had simply expired and the "hacker" re-registered it, performed a password reset on Satoshi's P2P Foundation account, and logged into it - in which case technically nothing was "hacked" - somebody will have to correct me if this is wrong... This might have originally taken place before March 7, 2014, as that was the date that the "I am not Dorian Nakamoto" message was also left by whoever was in control of Satoshi's account at the time. What is clear is that whoever had it by September 2014 was NOT Satoshi.
