Bitcoin Creator Isn't Craig Wright, London Judge Rules

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-14/bitcoin-creator-isn-t-craig-wright-london-judge-rules

40 11 2 years ago

Shocker! </sarc>

johndunne• 2 years ago

Would the real Satoshi, please stand up... I used to ponder who the real Bitcoin creator really could be. You can go down a rabbit hole if you're inclined. They could be a group of people, but the consensus ;) seems to be that from his original participation in forums while creating the protocol, it was a single person. There's a huge amount of coin tied up in the original wallets he/she/they must have minted still that hasn't moved... Billion's of dollars worth of coin too.

evilDagmar• 2 years ago

Maybe Satoshi just wants to live a life quieter than what he could possibly be living if everyone knew they controlled billions in really, really lightweight currency.

g42gregory• 2 years ago

This is the most believable discussion that I have seen, identifying Hal Finney as Satoshi [1]. By no means conclusive, but certainly believable.

[1] https://twitter.com/adamscochran/status/1761111031928033749

gregw2• 2 years ago

Thx for the pointer.

But did Hal really learn+write Bitcoin 0.1 in a bunch of Windows GUI C++?

phroxen• 2 years ago

wasn't the first implementation of bitcoin in pascal?

reducesuffering• 2 years ago

Hal was running a race when Satoshi emailed a different contributor.

A few rabbit-holes if you want to know: IP leak, omitting attribution and later correction, backdating blog posts, Freudian slip in interview, top stylometric contender.

justinclift• 2 years ago

https://archive.is/i6Xbv

yownie• 2 years ago

Yay!

olliej• 2 years ago

The UK is the country that also said "you can't publish the bitcoin white paper because despite it being MIT licensed, this dude claims to have written it, and despite his track record of harassing anyone he gets the identity of we're not going to require he prove he's the author before issuing summary judgement in his favor if you don't open yourself to being harassed.

It's absurd that you can make a claim like this without your name on a document without providing substantial proof ahead of time that you are the person behind the pseudonym.

Stevvo• 2 years ago

Great video of about identifying manipulative psychopaths in a community; https://youtu.be/Zkg_-_HwRcI?si=Rgow7Rm2sH5jjHXj

Bitcoin Creator Isn't Craig Wright, London Judge Rules

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