<story><title>I’m Sorry</title><url>http://www.drcraigwright.net/homepage.jpg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryao</author><text>I had not cared that much about this, but his actions are exactly what I would have expected from bitcoin&amp;#x27;s creator. There are some guys who simply do not want to be found. The guy who created Bitcoin is one of them. Making things develop like this simultaneously repairs much of the damage to his anonymity while minimizing the damage to the two guys who put their reputations on the line for him. By acting the way that you are acting, you are acting exactly like he intended for you to act. There is simply insufficient public evidence to say whether he is or is not. He is in that pesky excluded middle that gives rise to pseudo-Boolean logic.&lt;p&gt;That being said, people should realize that the creator of Bitcoin does not want to be found and honor that.</text></item><item><author>dzdt</author><text>He had promised to do the impossible -- cryptographically prove he had access to early coins which he did not in fact have.  He had carefully developed two scam-proofs of this.&lt;p&gt;One scam proof was deployed on his blog where he claimed to sign a Sartre text with a key from bitcoin block 9.  He carefully did not give the exact input text, only a supposed hash of the text.  The hope was anyone trying to replicate would assume their problem was an incorrect source text.  And there was proof that the given hash value was signed by the key.  But that did not survive internet scrutiny; it was noticed that the signature came from an old bitcoin transaction.  Instead of signing the hashed Sartre text as claimed, it signed the old transaction.&lt;p&gt;The other scam proof was presented in private to reporters and bitcoin developers Jon Matonis and Gavin Andresen.  Here Wright supposedly demonstrated the ability to sign arbitrary messages using keys from bitcoin blocks 1 and 9.  This scam succeeded: both Andresen and Matonis were convinced.  But they were not allowed to keep copies of the evidence, to prevent the trick from being exposed.  One speculation is that Wright was able to substitute a doctored version of the Electrum software used for the verification.  But without evidence to examine outside of Wright&amp;#x27;s control, the exact details of the scam are still hidden.&lt;p&gt;But now Wright is out of ideas.  His public-consumption scam failed, and his private controlled-scenario scam can&amp;#x27;t be more widely replicated.&lt;p&gt;So this message is his way of backing out, trying as much as possible to save face and keep open the possibility of claiming the Satoshi Nakamoto identity again later.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dzdt</author><text>So you expected the real Satoshi to keep his anonymity by announcing his identity to the world and then backing up the announcement with &amp;quot;proof&amp;quot; that is clearly false?</text></comment>
<story><title>I’m Sorry</title><url>http://www.drcraigwright.net/homepage.jpg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ryao</author><text>I had not cared that much about this, but his actions are exactly what I would have expected from bitcoin&amp;#x27;s creator. There are some guys who simply do not want to be found. The guy who created Bitcoin is one of them. Making things develop like this simultaneously repairs much of the damage to his anonymity while minimizing the damage to the two guys who put their reputations on the line for him. By acting the way that you are acting, you are acting exactly like he intended for you to act. There is simply insufficient public evidence to say whether he is or is not. He is in that pesky excluded middle that gives rise to pseudo-Boolean logic.&lt;p&gt;That being said, people should realize that the creator of Bitcoin does not want to be found and honor that.</text></item><item><author>dzdt</author><text>He had promised to do the impossible -- cryptographically prove he had access to early coins which he did not in fact have.  He had carefully developed two scam-proofs of this.&lt;p&gt;One scam proof was deployed on his blog where he claimed to sign a Sartre text with a key from bitcoin block 9.  He carefully did not give the exact input text, only a supposed hash of the text.  The hope was anyone trying to replicate would assume their problem was an incorrect source text.  And there was proof that the given hash value was signed by the key.  But that did not survive internet scrutiny; it was noticed that the signature came from an old bitcoin transaction.  Instead of signing the hashed Sartre text as claimed, it signed the old transaction.&lt;p&gt;The other scam proof was presented in private to reporters and bitcoin developers Jon Matonis and Gavin Andresen.  Here Wright supposedly demonstrated the ability to sign arbitrary messages using keys from bitcoin blocks 1 and 9.  This scam succeeded: both Andresen and Matonis were convinced.  But they were not allowed to keep copies of the evidence, to prevent the trick from being exposed.  One speculation is that Wright was able to substitute a doctored version of the Electrum software used for the verification.  But without evidence to examine outside of Wright&amp;#x27;s control, the exact details of the scam are still hidden.&lt;p&gt;But now Wright is out of ideas.  His public-consumption scam failed, and his private controlled-scenario scam can&amp;#x27;t be more widely replicated.&lt;p&gt;So this message is his way of backing out, trying as much as possible to save face and keep open the possibility of claiming the Satoshi Nakamoto identity again later.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stupidcar</author><text>Wat?&lt;p&gt;People who &amp;quot;simply do not want to be found&amp;quot; don&amp;#x27;t make any sorts of claims whatsoever. People who make fraudulent claims are scammers, plain and simple.&lt;p&gt;The fraudulent evidence that Wright has presented doesn&amp;#x27;t make it &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; likely that he&amp;#x27;s Satoshi, they make it much, much &lt;i&gt;less&lt;/i&gt; likely. At this point, it&amp;#x27;s more reasonable to assume Donald Trump invented BitCoin than Wright.</text></comment>