<story><title>Validating Satoshi (Or Not)</title><url>https://dankaminsky.com/2016/05/02/validating-satoshi-or-not/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blowski</author><text>Seems to me like there are two possible scenarios here:&lt;p&gt;1. Craig Wright is telling the truth, but has released a bad proof to misdirect everyone into believing he is not Satoshi. Maybe he&amp;#x27;s just having a laugh.&lt;p&gt;2. Craig Wright is lying.&lt;p&gt;Even if he&amp;#x27;s not Satoshi, he seems smart enough to know he wouldn&amp;#x27;t get away with releasing shoddy proofs. Perhaps he thought the mainstream media would say &amp;quot;Craig Wright invented Bitcoin&amp;quot; and anyone that disagreed would be called a conspiracy nut.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this was a kind of pump-and-dump where he expected the price to change significantly and make a killing out of doing it. He doesn&amp;#x27;t care what people think of him if he&amp;#x27;s just made $20 million. Could it have anything to do with his ongoing legal troubles with the tax authorities in Australia?&lt;p&gt;At this stage, I&amp;#x27;m seeing plenty of people saying &amp;quot;Here&amp;#x27;s why Craig Wright isn&amp;#x27;t Satoshi&amp;quot; and that&amp;#x27;s interesting and useful. But I haven&amp;#x27;t seen anyone establish why Craig Wright would be lying.&lt;p&gt;Also, it&amp;#x27;s interesting that &amp;quot;The Real Satoshi&amp;quot; has not posted something saying he&amp;#x27;s not Craig Wright, as we have seen with previous &amp;quot;exposés&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwaway7767</author><text>&amp;gt; Also, it&amp;#x27;s interesting that &amp;quot;The Real Satoshi&amp;quot; has not posted something saying he&amp;#x27;s not Craig Wright, as we have seen with previous &amp;quot;exposés&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;AFAIK that&amp;#x27;s only happened once, in the Dorian case. In that case, the media and papparazzos were hounding a frail old man who was clearly very uncomfortable with the whole thing.&lt;p&gt;Craig Wright seems to just love being in the spotlight. So there&amp;#x27;s no reason to deny the claims for empathic reasons. It would suck for the real Satoshi to create an expectation that he&amp;#x27;ll have to individually refute all these claims, I imagine he has other things to do.</text></comment>
<story><title>Validating Satoshi (Or Not)</title><url>https://dankaminsky.com/2016/05/02/validating-satoshi-or-not/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>blowski</author><text>Seems to me like there are two possible scenarios here:&lt;p&gt;1. Craig Wright is telling the truth, but has released a bad proof to misdirect everyone into believing he is not Satoshi. Maybe he&amp;#x27;s just having a laugh.&lt;p&gt;2. Craig Wright is lying.&lt;p&gt;Even if he&amp;#x27;s not Satoshi, he seems smart enough to know he wouldn&amp;#x27;t get away with releasing shoddy proofs. Perhaps he thought the mainstream media would say &amp;quot;Craig Wright invented Bitcoin&amp;quot; and anyone that disagreed would be called a conspiracy nut.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps this was a kind of pump-and-dump where he expected the price to change significantly and make a killing out of doing it. He doesn&amp;#x27;t care what people think of him if he&amp;#x27;s just made $20 million. Could it have anything to do with his ongoing legal troubles with the tax authorities in Australia?&lt;p&gt;At this stage, I&amp;#x27;m seeing plenty of people saying &amp;quot;Here&amp;#x27;s why Craig Wright isn&amp;#x27;t Satoshi&amp;quot; and that&amp;#x27;s interesting and useful. But I haven&amp;#x27;t seen anyone establish why Craig Wright would be lying.&lt;p&gt;Also, it&amp;#x27;s interesting that &amp;quot;The Real Satoshi&amp;quot; has not posted something saying he&amp;#x27;s not Craig Wright, as we have seen with previous &amp;quot;exposés&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acqq</author><text>&amp;gt; I haven&amp;#x27;t seen anyone establish why Craig Wright would be lying.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t understand, I&amp;#x27;m actually in possession of 400 million dollars bound to a trust, not available to me until 2020, but if you send me your bank details and help me in current affairs I promise I&amp;#x27;ll compensate you with the 10 percent of the whole sum.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m also famous, maybe they&amp;#x27;ll even get me a Nobel prize, I&amp;#x27;m playing I&amp;#x27;m hard to get, anyway, and you can be too if you confirm that I proved to you too I&amp;#x27;m the one who I claim to be. Think about it, there will be even a Hollywood movie about us. For the start, see I&amp;#x27;ve already agreed for more exclusives.&lt;p&gt;And oh, I can help your case for introducing bigger blocks to Bitcoin. There&amp;#x27;s going to be this nice conference in NY where you can present your argument exactly on the first day of my &amp;quot;big announcement.&amp;quot;</text></comment>