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> Wright claimed in 2016 that he was Nakamoto, which was a pseudonym. The claim has been disputed. It's beyond disputed; the man can literally sign a message a

> Wright claimed in 2016 that he was Nakamoto, which was a pseudonym. The claim has been disputed. It's beyond disputed; the man can literally sign a message at any point in time that he likes that would definitively prove his claim, and he refuses. This to me is proof positive that he is lying. Someone who built a cryptosystem for artificial digital scarcity, who relied entirely on digital signatures to prove pseudonymous identity would absolutely 100% prove their claim using these methods. Craig Wright is an obvious fraud. The article is not very informative about the case, I'd love to know more about why some bitcoin mined by satoshi nakamoto, supposedly owned by a man claiming to be satoshi nakamoto, was under the possession of someone else and needed a trial to return possession to him.

nullc 5y ago
It's beyond beyond disputed: Wright was forced by the court to provide a sworn list of his bitcoin holdings as of 2013, and when he provided a list, immediately people owning thousands of Bitcoins came out of the woodwork signing messages with addresses Wright claimed to own calling Wright a fraud. https://cswarchive.info/csw-filed#145-Signings https://cswarchive.info/csw-filed#145-Signings So it isn't just that if it were true he could trivially prove it with a digital signature-- but that the true owners of many coins he claimed to control have stepped up and provided signatures saying that they're not Wright! Unfortunately, Wright and his conspirators are spending millions to support and prolong their fraud and so it's no great difficulty for them to more or less control the media presentation of the situation.
- tim333 5y ago
  So given he doesn't own much I wonder how he's going to pay the $100m settlement?
  - nullc 5y ago
    $100m judgement, he may settle it (vs deal with appeals) for a different amount. Wright has scored some extremely wealthy sponsors who have been loaning wright money in exchange for a share in his fictional treasure. So I think it's possible that he'll actually be able to pay for a settlement in this case using their money. It's an astronomical amount of money, but the amounts of money being pumped into wrights con have been astronomical for a long time. $100m wouldn't even be particularly disproportionate compared to what's gone into propping up TAAL, for example. It's also possible-- even likely-- that he just won't pay it. I believe he still owes $60k-ish for a judgement for legal fees in an action in Norway, which he's owed for well over a year. He went over a year before paying legal fees he owed Adam Back for an aborted defamation lawsuit against Back. Civil recovery can be spotty at the best of times, and in this case we're talking about someone whos already fled one country to escape his legal problems and has established citizenship in a location known to block extraditions for criminals (including Wright's business partner / primary victim, Calvin Ayre who spent a decade on DHS's most wanted list).
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nullc 5y ago

It's beyond beyond disputed: Wright was forced by the court to provide a sworn list of his bitcoin holdings as of 2013, and when he provided a list, immediately people owning thousands of Bitcoins came out of the woodwork signing messages with addresses Wright claimed to own calling Wright a fraud. https://cswarchive.info/csw-filed#145-Signings https://cswarchive.info/csw-filed#145-Signings So it isn't just that if it were true he could trivially prove it with a digital signature-- but that the true owners of many coins he claimed to control have stepped up and provided signatures saying that they're not Wright! Unfortunately, Wright and his conspirators are spending millions to support and prolong their fraud and so it's no great difficulty for them to more or less control the media presentation of the situation.

tim333 5y ago
So given he doesn't own much I wonder how he's going to pay the $100m settlement?
- nullc 5y ago
  $100m judgement, he may settle it (vs deal with appeals) for a different amount. Wright has scored some extremely wealthy sponsors who have been loaning wright money in exchange for a share in his fictional treasure. So I think it's possible that he'll actually be able to pay for a settlement in this case using their money. It's an astronomical amount of money, but the amounts of money being pumped into wrights con have been astronomical for a long time. $100m wouldn't even be particularly disproportionate compared to what's gone into propping up TAAL, for example. It's also possible-- even likely-- that he just won't pay it. I believe he still owes $60k-ish for a judgement for legal fees in an action in Norway, which he's owed for well over a year. He went over a year before paying legal fees he owed Adam Back for an aborted defamation lawsuit against Back. Civil recovery can be spotty at the best of times, and in this case we're talking about someone whos already fled one country to escape his legal problems and has established citizenship in a location known to block extraditions for criminals (including Wright's business partner / primary victim, Calvin Ayre who spent a decade on DHS's most wanted list).

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