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This is about Faketoshi Notamoto, right? click Yup. This guy is a pathological forger and is bad at it. Here's my write-up from when he got caught doing nau

by ryan-c 3y ago

This is about Faketoshi Notamoto, right? click Yup. This guy is a pathological forger and is bad at it. Here's my write-up from when he got caught doing naughty things with ECDSA: https://rya.nc/sartre.html https://rya.nc/sartre.html (as noted by another commenter, "pathological" is literal in this case)

rwmj 3y ago
The weird thing is being bad at it hasn't stopped him. (That and there's some billionaire behind the whole thing, which probably helps.) This article was interesting: https://rorycellanjones.substack.com/p/the-battle-of-bitcoin https://rorycellanjones.substack.com/p/the-battle-of-bitcoin
- ryan-c 3y ago
  > The weird thing is being bad at it hasn't stopped him. "pathological" I think it's literally a compulsion for him.
ixwt 3y ago
Wouldn't it be trivially easy to prove that oneself is Satoshi Nakamoto? Just signing arbitrary messages with one of the many wallet addresses from the first Bitcoins mined? Assuming of course, that those early keys didn't end up like so many: on a hard drive, in a land fill.
- ghostpepper 3y ago
  He claims he destroyed the keys while medicated after being released from hospital https://twitter.com/bitnorbert/status/1757745072974475270 https://twitter.com/bitnorbert/status/1757745072974475270
  - thwarted 3y ago
    It's unfortunate that this is annoying to read with having to expand each entry and then the content popping back up to the top. Annoying enough that I lost interest in reading it. YMMV.
    - bitnorbert 3y ago
      Here's the whole thread from that court day as a webpage: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1757676051591749813.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1757676051591749813.html
- gerikson 3y ago
  Indeed. Which makes all his subsequent contortions all the more absurd.
ryan-c 3y ago
Oh, neat, my gist linked from that post was used as evidence.
commandersaki 3y ago
Thanks for the writeup by the way. I kept finding HN posts about the Sartre post and how the signature came from the blockchain, but nothing to explain why the Sartre file hashed the way it did. Thanks for reconstructing it, it really helped me understand the crux of the deception.

by ryan-c 3y ago

rwmj 3y ago

The weird thing is being bad at it hasn't stopped him. (That and there's some billionaire behind the whole thing, which probably helps.) This article was interesting: https://rorycellanjones.substack.com/p/the-battle-of-bitcoin https://rorycellanjones.substack.com/p/the-battle-of-bitcoin

ryan-c 3y ago
> The weird thing is being bad at it hasn't stopped him. "pathological" I think it's literally a compulsion for him.

ixwt 3y ago

Wouldn't it be trivially easy to prove that oneself is Satoshi Nakamoto? Just signing arbitrary messages with one of the many wallet addresses from the first Bitcoins mined? Assuming of course, that those early keys didn't end up like so many: on a hard drive, in a land fill.

ghostpepper 3y ago
He claims he destroyed the keys while medicated after being released from hospital https://twitter.com/bitnorbert/status/1757745072974475270 https://twitter.com/bitnorbert/status/1757745072974475270
- thwarted 3y ago
  It's unfortunate that this is annoying to read with having to expand each entry and then the content popping back up to the top. Annoying enough that I lost interest in reading it. YMMV.
  - bitnorbert 3y ago
    Here's the whole thread from that court day as a webpage: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1757676051591749813.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1757676051591749813.html
gerikson 3y ago
Indeed. Which makes all his subsequent contortions all the more absurd.

ryan-c 3y ago

Oh, neat, my gist linked from that post was used as evidence.

commandersaki 3y ago

Thanks for the writeup by the way. I kept finding HN posts about the Sartre post and how the signature came from the blockchain, but nothing to explain why the Sartre file hashed the way it did. Thanks for reconstructing it, it really helped me understand the crux of the deception.