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And the most successful tax refund scammers claim to have invented Bitcoin, claim to have spend a hundred million buying a non-existent supercomputer, then clai

by nullc 7y ago

And the most successful tax refund scammers claim to have invented Bitcoin, claim to have spend a hundred million buying a non-existent supercomputer, then claim $54 million in tax rebates related to their "research and development". When the authorities catch on, they then pivot to pre-selling their embargoed "bitcoin fortune" in a advanced fee fraud[2] and use the victims to pay a settlement with the tax authority. Which in AU, like the US, is surprisingly forgiving of outright fraud so long as you give them money. Best of all, because printing obviously false speculation about Bitcoin's creator sells more paper than a story about an audacious but fundamentally boring conman, even the media barely takes notice of the crime. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4htw3t/how_to_steal_54_millions_of_dollar_from_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4htw3t/how_to_stea... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4cdsna/craig_wright_nigerian_prince_and_other_unlikely/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4cdsna/craig_wrigh...

lisawright 7y ago
@nullc Stop dragging my brother into this drama. He did not commit tax fraud, and in his life there are problems that cannot be explained by conventional means. He invented bitcoin. Media advertises him as a scammer, but I know from the bottom of my heart - he is not a fraud at all. You need to take false positives into account. He bought the bitcoin.org domain from his credit card which will be proven in the court near soon.
- mileycyrusXOXO 7y ago
  > He invented bitcoin. Sorry to break it to you, but he didn't. A claim as profound as that without any substance won't get you very far here.
  - duelingjello 7y ago
    Tech vague equivalent of people claiming to be Navy SEALs (stolen valor).
- nullc 7y ago
  It will be better for both you and him if you stop enabling his continued lying and fraud. His actions, which are you are benefiting from and enabling, are hurting a lot of people. He's very lucky to have family that care about him to defend him like you are... but defending someone who is doing wrong isn't doing them or the world any favors. He's made the claim to have purchased Bitcoin.org in public before and it was shown that his 'evidence' was fake-- just a recently created screenshot of a public webpage that anyone could load: https://twitter.com/Mike__V_/status/1116725165168177152 https://twitter.com/Mike__V_/status/1116725165168177152 > He did not commit tax fraud, That isn't what the Australian tax office concluded. For example, he was fined 1.8 million dollars for backdating invoices: https://web.archive.org/web/20180413215502/https://www.scribd.com/document/372445140/Exhibit-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20180413215502/https://www.scrib... > in his life there are problems that cannot be explained by conventional means They are well explained by an addiction to dishonesty. Numerous administrative judgements and courts have found that Wright consistently lies and incompetently forges evidence to attempt to cover up his lies. There are straightforward means by which anyone claiming to have created Bitcoin could unambiguously establish the minimal credibility required for their claim to be worth even listening to-- such as producing digital signatures with keys that were previously controlled by Satoshi. Wright has said that he would provide that proof but has instead over and over again only provided forgeries. His attempts to silence people criticizing him through lawsuit have been effective at shutting some people up, but he keeps losing these lawsuits. Unfortunately, many people are easily silenced through threats and harassment. Your brother himself has repeatedly tried to silence me by plastering the internet with absurdly untrue malicious false claims about me (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKRFyoyVAAIvc8a?format=png&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKRFyoyVAAIvc8a?format=png&name=...). He has filed spurious lawsuits against my friends for simply pointing out that that his claimed evidence (like the domain link above) is fraudulent. People representing your brother-- and likely your brother himself-- have threatened to kill me and my family for speaking out against him. Harassment directed and/or inspired by him have chased away numerous people from contributing to Bitcoin. Please stop and consider what you are enabling. Wright is not right.
  - lisawright 7y ago
    Please show evidence that he threatened to kill you. He don't do that kind cheap stuff. And, he do lawsuits for people who do this faketoshi agenda. He tend to have proofs that looks suspicious for a good reason, but anyways the bank will provide records for court. My brother is smarter than anyone, he could remove that suspicious things, but he won't do that. Who wants BTC to crash in a day!!!!
- nullc 7y ago
  While I have you here, do you know when Wright first met with Andresen? Andresen has stonewalled developers asking for clarification about his history and arrangements with Wright and there have been conflicting claims about when they first started working with each other.
- NicoJuicy 7y ago
  > He invented Bitcoin. No, he didn't. Lol Ps. If something is hard that can't be explained in a simple way, it's probably also false. Remember, Satoshi has 1 billion $ . No way to fake that and proving that you are Satoshi is as simple as moving 1 coin :) Without excuses ofc, which I'm sure he has.
- somebadguy 7y ago
  Fuck off cunt

by nullc 7y ago

lisawright 7y ago

@nullc Stop dragging my brother into this drama. He did not commit tax fraud, and in his life there are problems that cannot be explained by conventional means. He invented bitcoin. Media advertises him as a scammer, but I know from the bottom of my heart - he is not a fraud at all. You need to take false positives into account. He bought the bitcoin.org domain from his credit card which will be proven in the court near soon.

mileycyrusXOXO 7y ago
> He invented bitcoin. Sorry to break it to you, but he didn't. A claim as profound as that without any substance won't get you very far here.
- duelingjello 7y ago
  Tech vague equivalent of people claiming to be Navy SEALs (stolen valor).
nullc 7y ago
It will be better for both you and him if you stop enabling his continued lying and fraud. His actions, which are you are benefiting from and enabling, are hurting a lot of people. He's very lucky to have family that care about him to defend him like you are... but defending someone who is doing wrong isn't doing them or the world any favors. He's made the claim to have purchased Bitcoin.org in public before and it was shown that his 'evidence' was fake-- just a recently created screenshot of a public webpage that anyone could load: https://twitter.com/Mike__V_/status/1116725165168177152 https://twitter.com/Mike__V_/status/1116725165168177152 > He did not commit tax fraud, That isn't what the Australian tax office concluded. For example, he was fined 1.8 million dollars for backdating invoices: https://web.archive.org/web/20180413215502/https://www.scribd.com/document/372445140/Exhibit-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20180413215502/https://www.scrib... > in his life there are problems that cannot be explained by conventional means They are well explained by an addiction to dishonesty. Numerous administrative judgements and courts have found that Wright consistently lies and incompetently forges evidence to attempt to cover up his lies. There are straightforward means by which anyone claiming to have created Bitcoin could unambiguously establish the minimal credibility required for their claim to be worth even listening to-- such as producing digital signatures with keys that were previously controlled by Satoshi. Wright has said that he would provide that proof but has instead over and over again only provided forgeries. His attempts to silence people criticizing him through lawsuit have been effective at shutting some people up, but he keeps losing these lawsuits. Unfortunately, many people are easily silenced through threats and harassment. Your brother himself has repeatedly tried to silence me by plastering the internet with absurdly untrue malicious false claims about me (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKRFyoyVAAIvc8a?format=png&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKRFyoyVAAIvc8a?format=png&name=...). He has filed spurious lawsuits against my friends for simply pointing out that that his claimed evidence (like the domain link above) is fraudulent. People representing your brother-- and likely your brother himself-- have threatened to kill me and my family for speaking out against him. Harassment directed and/or inspired by him have chased away numerous people from contributing to Bitcoin. Please stop and consider what you are enabling. Wright is not right.
- lisawright 7y ago
  Please show evidence that he threatened to kill you. He don't do that kind cheap stuff. And, he do lawsuits for people who do this faketoshi agenda. He tend to have proofs that looks suspicious for a good reason, but anyways the bank will provide records for court. My brother is smarter than anyone, he could remove that suspicious things, but he won't do that. Who wants BTC to crash in a day!!!!
nullc 7y ago
While I have you here, do you know when Wright first met with Andresen? Andresen has stonewalled developers asking for clarification about his history and arrangements with Wright and there have been conflicting claims about when they first started working with each other.
NicoJuicy 7y ago
> He invented Bitcoin. No, he didn't. Lol Ps. If something is hard that can't be explained in a simple way, it's probably also false. Remember, Satoshi has 1 billion $ . No way to fake that and proving that you are Satoshi is as simple as moving 1 coin :) Without excuses ofc, which I'm sure he has.
somebadguy 7y ago
Fuck off cunt