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Grifting conman. A walk down memory lane on one of his previous attempts to demonstrate he was Satoshi: https://github.com/patio11/wrightverification/blob/mas

Grifting conman. A walk down memory lane on one of his previous attempts to demonstrate he was Satoshi: https://github.com/patio11/wrightverification/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/patio11/wrightverification/blob/master/RE... The one positive thing I can say about Bitcoin is that it gives someone who is factually Satoshi an extremely easy way to prove that fact in a way which is extremely difficult for anyone else in the world to forge. Wright hasn’t because he can’t because he isn’t.

duxup 7y ago
> an extremely easy way to prove that fact What is that way? I read your link but my layman's brain couldn't parse it... well enough to understand it.
- Zircom 7y ago
  There's a large number of early coins that are publicly known to belong to Satoshi, all he'd have to do is move a few of them around.
  - duxup 7y ago
    Thanks, have they EVER moved?
- patio11 7y ago
  Satoshi is known to have mined the first several blocks for Bitcoin. Each of those blocks has a coinbase address where the miner fee was deposited; each address encodes a public key. Write a message like “I am Satoshi. Here’s a boring detail which proves this message was created on demand.”, sign with corresponding private key, post the ~10 lines of OpenSSL commands which verify that the signature matches. The end.
  - duxup 7y ago
    Thanks, that makes a lot of sense.
- stevekemp2 7y ago
  If he is Satoshi he could sign a message with the private half of a key known to have been used in the past by him. Details of public/private keys, hashes, etc are important, but at the core the idea is simple.
wolfgang42 7y ago
Tangent: that link shows exactly what's wrong with the current state of public-key cryptography: there are too many ways to get it wrong, and no broadly used standard tooling that's foolproof enough for the average person to be confident that they did it right. This is the problem that Keybase is trying to solve, though I don't have enough experience with their system to know how well they succeeded.

duxup 7y ago

> an extremely easy way to prove that fact What is that way? I read your link but my layman's brain couldn't parse it... well enough to understand it.

Zircom 7y ago
There's a large number of early coins that are publicly known to belong to Satoshi, all he'd have to do is move a few of them around.
- duxup 7y ago
  Thanks, have they EVER moved?
patio11 7y ago
Satoshi is known to have mined the first several blocks for Bitcoin. Each of those blocks has a coinbase address where the miner fee was deposited; each address encodes a public key. Write a message like “I am Satoshi. Here’s a boring detail which proves this message was created on demand.”, sign with corresponding private key, post the ~10 lines of OpenSSL commands which verify that the signature matches. The end.
- duxup 7y ago
  Thanks, that makes a lot of sense.
stevekemp2 7y ago
If he is Satoshi he could sign a message with the private half of a key known to have been used in the past by him. Details of public/private keys, hashes, etc are important, but at the core the idea is simple.

wolfgang42 7y ago

Tangent: that link shows exactly what's wrong with the current state of public-key cryptography: there are too many ways to get it wrong, and no broadly used standard tooling that's foolproof enough for the average person to be confident that they did it right. This is the problem that Keybase is trying to solve, though I don't have enough experience with their system to know how well they succeeded.