Silicon Graphics, Craig Wright, and the Untold Story

https://coingeek.com/sgi-craig-wright-untold-story/

by mbgaxyz • 9 years ago

23 31 9 years ago

This story says:

The article then mentions the above claim that SGI had no relationship with Craig Wright, and also attacks Wright’s academic credibility by stating he lied about his PhD degree – stating that Charles Sturt University never provided him with any PhD. But CoinGeek and I have already verified and confirmed that the degrees all do exist.

Whereas Forbes says:

His now-wiped LinkedIn page [..] suggested he had a PhD in computer science with Sydney's Charles Sturt University (CSU). But a statement sent to FORBES today from the university said it had never handed Wright any PhD. "Mr Wright has not been awarded a PhD from CSU," the statement read. [0]

Both of these statements can not be correct, right? Maybe he could he have gotten his PhD after the Forbes article? If so this article should make it clear that the early claims he did not have a PhD from CSU were correct but that this state of affairs has changed.

This story also says:

CoinGeek has since received mounting evidence which in fact provide strong proofs that SGI did work closely with Craig Wright. Countless emails, records, documents, training material, reference letters, including a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement by both Chris Clarkson (formerly) of SGI, and Craig Wright. Also on hand is evidence of conference video footage of the two parties in question.

However the linked article reads:

SGI says that “Cloudcroft has never been an SGI customer and SGI has no relationship with Cloudcroft CEO Craig Steven Wright.” [1]

It could well be the case that Cloudcroft was not an SGI customer and that SGI has no relationship with Cloudcroft and also that Cloudcroft and SGI had communications. These are not mutually exclusive claims.

[0]: Forbes: Time To Call A Hoax? Inconsistencies On 'Probable' Bitcoin Creator's PhD And Supercomputers Revealed - https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2015/12/11/bitco...

[1]: Wired: New Clues Suggest Craig Wright, Suspected Bitcoin Creator, May Be a Hoaxer - https://www.wired.com/2015/12/new-clues-suggest-satoshi-susp...

cornchips12• 9 years ago

I remember this well. Never seen smearing until then. Which included advocates of bitcoin and other coins for various reasons. Happened the week of Craig's outing by the people extorting him.

Here's some information class about he was teaching right until they scrubbed it: https://web.archive.org/web/20120430035605/http://www.itmast...

And another: https://archive.is/ttLth

This was on their youtube page: https://archive.is/gXPkX "Presented by Dr Craig Wright of Charles Sturt University and the Global Institute for Cyber Security + Research."

The SGI endorsement letter existed. I have a copy, but the web version was scrubbed. The remaining evidence is in the form of a copy of press release http://archive.is/cqI6S

miker64• 9 years ago

'Teaching a class at' and 'receiving a degree from' an institution are two very different things. Not sure what these links are trying to prove or disprove?

TD-Linux3• 9 years ago

If you have such a copy of the SGI endorsement letter, why don't you post it? I don't think a press release written by Craig Wright is particularly compelling evidence.

That said, I don't actually doubt that the SGI letter exists, but also believe it was totally fabricated by Craig Wright.

powera• 9 years ago

The author doth protest too much.

Craig Wright is not Satoshi. He could have proved it a dozen ways, and has not done so.

I neither know nor care if the rest of his resume is fabricated.

asfjklasjfkd4• 9 years ago

If cloudcroft and the demorgan group were legit companies then why did they seemingly evaporate after these stories broke? Shouldn't the matter have been handled professionally by a PR rep for the company?

Surely they must have had customers to support and significant assets to support a 2 year old supercomputing company and 9 other ventures. Instead they have been scrubbed from the internet completely in a matter of hours since their ceo was taking PR heat. Can anyone find the new owner of the CO1N supercomputer or evidence that cloudcroft is still using it?

cornchips12• 9 years ago

Improper investigation by the ATO wasn't comfortable so they jumped islands.

No customers, just investments.

Before they were deleted there were videos of pieces of the equipment.

asfjklasjfkd4• 9 years ago

There wasn't a single video of a datacenter or server racks instead there were videos of Craig receiving shipments of xeon phi cards (as in 1 or 2 not dozens or hundreds) and constructing a xeon phi based desktop computer. He also points to a box saying it's full of infiniband cards and xeon phi cards (doesn't open it).

In Craig Wright's supercomputing class, students are given access to a single node of the purported supercomputer. The only evidence of the supercomputer ever existing is on the green500 list.

If it was an improper investigation then fight it in court and release a public statement on the company's site like a normal company. Nuking your web presence and hiding in another continent is not exactly normal behavior.

TD-Linux3• 9 years ago

CoinGeek is either run by or paid for by Craig Wright. You can see that all of the articles are either strongly in his favor or in line with his recent opinions [1].

Craig Wright is a known fraud and scammer, who claims to be Satoshi. He not only failed to prove it, but created a clearly fabricated PGP key to do so [2]. He has recently threatened to sue anyone who questions his claims [3]. Stay far, far away.

[1] https://coingeek.com/author/eliafram/

[2] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/jpgq3y/satoshis-p...

[3] https://gist.github.com/harding/b7067d2943706e2e3d3f7aab539a...

GBiT• 9 years ago

CoinGeek took from him interview, and now pushing series including analysis of it.

And about PGP key... If you took a look at his appearance in Future of Bitcoin conference, you understood, that actually, he signed with fabricated key Nobel prize winner, additional to that, if you took a second to read that text, you understood, that he don't even had intention to sign with real key.

TD-Linux3• 9 years ago

Yes, the third citation is a transcript of his talk in the Future of Bitcoin conference. For those curious, you can also watch it on Youtube [1] (warning: maximum cringe).

He mentions the PGP key, but only connects it to the Australian Tax Office (which he defrauded, and is now living in the UK). I'm not sure how that's supposed to change my conclusion.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAcOnvOVquo&feature=youtu.be...

Aqueous2• 9 years ago

If there was any lingering possibility that Craig Wright could still be Satoshi, this pretty much settled the question for me once and for all, from the "talk" you posted from Future of Bitcoin dated 30 June 2017. A direct quote:

"Very simple; very easy: good! When every single person on this globe pays for their cup of coffee---pays for their whatever they want---every day using one single central currency (and I'll say central; one distributed central currency) that is not controlled, that is hard money.

That's what Bitcoin is about: hard central controlled, no one can change, money."

To anyone with even a passing familiarity with Bitcoin, this makes obvious that he very simply doesn't understand what Bitcoin is. I mean, not even a little bit. Not even superficially. If this doesn't settle the question for everyone, once and for all, there is little point in further discussing Craig Wright, or for that matter anything related to Bitcoin.

cornchips12• 9 years ago

The transcript is off. And biased (Co-author of the http://Bitcoin.org developer documentation)

It excludes his self correction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAcOnvOVquo#t=2h29m15s

"distributed central currency"

cornchips12• 9 years ago

CoinGeek is either run by or paid for by Craig Wright.

Prove it.

Known fraud and scammer

Evidence?

"And for all my searching, I can't find any evidence that CW was actually convicted of any fraud or taxation crimes, despite everyone yelling from the tree tops that he's a scammer and a fraud." [0]

He has recently threatened to sue anyone who questions his claims

You are mistaken. He's not suing anyone who questions his claims. He can sue for libel.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6l24vo/sgi_craig_wrigh...

cornchips12• 9 years ago

Why was this flagged?

mbgaxyz3• 9 years ago

Moderators, why was this submission flagged?

Silicon Graphics, Craig Wright, and the Untold Story

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