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He does not give up, huh? Craig Wright, self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin, now seems willing to testify under oath that he is Satoshi Nakamoto. This is the conclusion that Ran NeuNer draws, following Wright's response to a request for comment from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
I promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
In December 2018, the CFTC issued a request for information on the "Mechanics of Cryptographic Assets and Markets", which was essentially aimed at better understanding Ethereum and the differences between Ether and Bitcoin. As the CFTC is a federal agency, responses to inquiries should be … well, not fraudulent, in any case.
On February 15, 2019, Wright posted his response by introducing himself and stating:
under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, I finalized a project initiated in 1997, which had been filed with the Australian government … under the name BlackNet.
He goes on to badert that the amount of misinformation and misinformation around chain systems (including Ethereum) has led to his decision to become more public.
So, Dr. Craig Wright is ready to testify under oath that he is Satoshi Nakamoto and the founder of Bitcoin. pic.twitter.com/WsqHhXnQzl
– Ran NeuNer (@cryptomanran) February 17, 2019
This is not particularly relevant in the request for information, it only serves to repeat the statement of Satoshi Nakamoto … although it is in a federal forum.
I am Satoshi Nakamoto and my wife too.
At this point, Wright's claims become a joke of Monty Python's proportions of Life Of Brian. After his first appearance under the name Satoshi Nakamoto, and the cryptographic world coughing up bullshit under the breath, he let it lie.
But now that he's running his own Bitcoin SV project (Satoshi's Vision), his so-called "amendments" to historical documents seem to be moving up a gear. Only last week, WikiLeaks blamed him for tweaking a 2008 blog article to make him feel like he was working on crypto at the time.
A few hours earlier, he was accused of using a false 2001 research paper as proof of his lineage. It was a word-for-word copy of the October 2008 Bitcoin White Paper. He even had amendments that he (as Satoshi Nakamoto) had brought from the August 2008 draft of the same document. Oops … Or maybe incredibly prescient?
Now, it is claimed that even his 1997 BlackNet project was worked by Tim May many years ago.
Craig Wright 2019: "I finished a project that I started in 1997
which has been filed with the Australian government .. like BlackNet.Tim May 1997: "I use an experimental and controversial experiment that I posted on the Net several years ago, BlackNet" https://t.co/w5nyUxj17P
– planB (@ 100trillionUSD) February 18, 2019
But if?…
Just imagine, if all this time, Wright told the truth. What would be the consequences of this?
Clearly, Wright is so unpopular that we will not all start to believe (and invest) in Bitcoin SV. Although one can only imagine that this is the purpose of all this so-called forgery.
Why do you carefully protect your identity and then go out to the world via GQ – tell critics to "piss off!" And remind whole countries that he has more money than them?
But would we all avoid Bitcoin if we discovered that he really was the inventor?
No of course not. Even Coldplay had a decent single before sinking into the quagmire of smug, satisfied with themselves, tasteless, irrelevant. And we can always listen to it … as nobody else will know it.
What do you think of Wright's latest claims? Share your thoughts below!
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