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Is there anywhere I can read a concise summary of the evidence for and against this guy as Satoshi? Right now the facts seem spread out across popular press ar

Is there anywhere I can read a concise summary of the evidence for and against this guy as Satoshi? Right now the facts seem spread out across popular press articles and random forum threads.

vesinisa 11y ago
Wired did a pretty good job (see the three bullet points): http://www.wired.com/2015/12/new-clues-suggest-satoshi-suspect-craig-wright-may-be-a-hoaxer/ http://www.wired.com/2015/12/new-clues-suggest-satoshi-suspe...
jnbiche 11y ago
If you're technical, this alone should be enough to convince you that none of this has any connection to Satoshi: - http://motherboard.vice.com/read/satoshis-pgp-keys-are-probably-backdated-and-point-to-a-hoax http://motherboard.vice.com/read/satoshis-pgp-keys-are-proba... If not, then this will probably at least convince you of the (lack of) veracity of Craig Wright's many claims: - http://www.zdnet.com/article/sgi-denies-links-with-alleged-bitcoin-founder-craig-wright/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/sgi-denies-links-with-alleged-b... (Wright claimed to have SGI supercomputer, turns out to not be true) - http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/12/11/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-craig-wright-lies-hoax/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/12/11/bitcoi... (Wright claimed to have CSU PhD, turns out to be false) Go and look up the claims this guy has made that turned out false. The guy is clearly a massive fraudster, which was crystal clear to me from the moment I first heard him speak, and who has encouraged this "I'm Satoshi" thing for the last year or so (probably for financial reasons). I mean, the fact that a lot of people in the "technical community" and "Bitcoin community" fell for this have seriously lowered my esteem of both. Bitcoin in particular seems to have been attracting a certain type of gullible gold-seeker since ~2013. Sadly, the scammers go wherever these folks go, and so Bitcoin has been absolutely besieged by them. Similarly, the number of "journalists" who wrote off the difference between "satoshin@gmx.com" and "satoshi@gmx" as it were an unimportant detail is pretty stunning (my opinion of them was already pretty low, so no real hard done).

Is there anywhere I can read a concise summary of the evidence for and against this guy as Satoshi? Right now the facts seem spread out across popular press articles and random forum threads.

vesinisa 11y ago

Wired did a pretty good job (see the three bullet points): http://www.wired.com/2015/12/new-clues-suggest-satoshi-suspect-craig-wright-may-be-a-hoaxer/ http://www.wired.com/2015/12/new-clues-suggest-satoshi-suspe...

jnbiche 11y ago

If you're technical, this alone should be enough to convince you that none of this has any connection to Satoshi: - http://motherboard.vice.com/read/satoshis-pgp-keys-are-probably-backdated-and-point-to-a-hoax http://motherboard.vice.com/read/satoshis-pgp-keys-are-proba... If not, then this will probably at least convince you of the (lack of) veracity of Craig Wright's many claims: - http://www.zdnet.com/article/sgi-denies-links-with-alleged-bitcoin-founder-craig-wright/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/sgi-denies-links-with-alleged-b... (Wright claimed to have SGI supercomputer, turns out to not be true) - http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/12/11/bitcoin-creator-satoshi-craig-wright-lies-hoax/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/12/11/bitcoi... (Wright claimed to have CSU PhD, turns out to be false) Go and look up the claims this guy has made that turned out false. The guy is clearly a massive fraudster, which was crystal clear to me from the moment I first heard him speak, and who has encouraged this "I'm Satoshi" thing for the last year or so (probably for financial reasons). I mean, the fact that a lot of people in the "technical community" and "Bitcoin community" fell for this have seriously lowered my esteem of both. Bitcoin in particular seems to have been attracting a certain type of gullible gold-seeker since ~2013. Sadly, the scammers go wherever these folks go, and so Bitcoin has been absolutely besieged by them. Similarly, the number of "journalists" who wrote off the difference between "satoshin@gmx.com" and "satoshi@gmx" as it were an unimportant detail is pretty stunning (my opinion of them was already pretty low, so no real hard done).