One simple way of proving that he is - by signing a message using the private key of one of the addresses to recieve Bitcoin close to the blockchain's genesis.
What's worse is he claimed he "owned" early mined bitcoin but lost the keys. One of said coins was then moved with a message saying "Not owned by Craig Wright". Of course he just made up more lies.
Of course, that's the obvious way to prove it. But it _would_ require you to be Satoshi, which he is not. Frankly, the fact he has not done that should be damning enough.
And even in the theoretical case that he somehow lost those keys (just to explore the argument), it doesn't matter.
The whole system is based on the premis that the math and the keys are the ultimate definition of truth right?
Lost your keys? Oh well. So what? You get the same take-backs as if you had a pile of paper money and burned it.
If he were the one who created the system in the first place, he would know better and be the last person on the planet to even try to say anything like "It's me but I just can't prove it."
It's just nonsensical before even looking at any supposed evidense. Sign something or why are you even bothering to waste even 5 minutes of anyone's time? (and why is anyone else even giving him so much as 5 minutes?)
He's suing a dozen current and former Bitcoin developers (including myself) alleging that we had a fiduciary duty to introduce a backdoor into bitcoin (which he claims we could do unilaterally) to help him recover coins he claims lost (but which were pretty obviously never his at all).
He carefully constructed that case to operate against coins that no one associated with Satoshi and which Wright says he purchased separately after Bitcoin's launch. Because of this he expects this case to not be struck out by virtue of his loss on the identity case. :(
We knocked out this claim on a summary basis only to have it reinstated by the court of appeals.
> (and why is anyone else even giving him so much as 5 minutes?)
Because the courts don't have enough mechanisms to cheaply and quickly knock out well funded bullshit claims.
Most people were doing pretty well at ignoring Wright until he started filing lawsuits -- which can't so easily be ignored. The downside of all that ignoring is that in darkness he was able to amass more victims, significant resources, and support. Casting a wide net, but not one wide enough to include his legal representatives, there are well over 300 people employed in support of Wright's activities.
sliken|1 year ago
icepat|1 year ago
Brian_K_White|1 year ago
The whole system is based on the premis that the math and the keys are the ultimate definition of truth right?
Lost your keys? Oh well. So what? You get the same take-backs as if you had a pile of paper money and burned it.
If he were the one who created the system in the first place, he would know better and be the last person on the planet to even try to say anything like "It's me but I just can't prove it."
It's just nonsensical before even looking at any supposed evidense. Sign something or why are you even bothering to waste even 5 minutes of anyone's time? (and why is anyone else even giving him so much as 5 minutes?)
nullc|1 year ago
He's suing a dozen current and former Bitcoin developers (including myself) alleging that we had a fiduciary duty to introduce a backdoor into bitcoin (which he claims we could do unilaterally) to help him recover coins he claims lost (but which were pretty obviously never his at all).
He carefully constructed that case to operate against coins that no one associated with Satoshi and which Wright says he purchased separately after Bitcoin's launch. Because of this he expects this case to not be struck out by virtue of his loss on the identity case. :(
We knocked out this claim on a summary basis only to have it reinstated by the court of appeals.
> (and why is anyone else even giving him so much as 5 minutes?)
Because the courts don't have enough mechanisms to cheaply and quickly knock out well funded bullshit claims.
Most people were doing pretty well at ignoring Wright until he started filing lawsuits -- which can't so easily be ignored. The downside of all that ignoring is that in darkness he was able to amass more victims, significant resources, and support. Casting a wide net, but not one wide enough to include his legal representatives, there are well over 300 people employed in support of Wright's activities.