I’ve read somewhere that DK was quite broke the moment he died, that doesn’t really make sense then. Yes, maybe he couldn’t touch the real Satoshi coins because they would prove it was him. But he must have had several other addresses later on. It took years before Bitcoin got a price and was traded for a cent or something.
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What I find interesting is that Gavin seems convinced that Satoshi is one person. I find that likely but anyone really knows. As I wrote, in the video CWs way of answering the question even suggests Satoshi wasn´t one person.
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That is bullshit. He could stop almost all of those attacks by giving such strong proof. Hell, he could have prevented it in the first place by giving the proof immediately, instead of this idiotic approach that appeals to authority of reputable people.
Going back now takes a lot more courage that going forward and just giving a signed proof. This settles it for me, I don’t believe at all that he is Satoshi.
Edit: Put into better words on reddit:
After the allegations against his person started because he did not
publish a simple valid cryptographically signed statement, he says he is
“not strong enough”.
Of course, if he really were Satoshi, he could stop all those
allegations immediately by providing exactly this simple signature.
But he decides for damaging himself forever instead of simply providing the proof, and he is strong enough to stand the now everlasting alegations that he is a liar.
This is a sick “logic” and doesn’t sound like Satoshi at all.
Clearly, Wright is simply Wrong by saying he is Satoshi, because he
is not, and that’s the true reason he “cannot” provide cryptographic
evidence.
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Also:
Drama Queen anyone.
I am sorry but he is drawing on emotions so he can back out of proving anything, and then come back in 3-6 months and claim to be SN again.
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He had several options:
- Go out to the public, showing and proving you are Satoshi. He would’ve earned great respect.
- Stay in the dark forever, even while media is hunting you a bit since December last year.
He choose another weird option:
- Go out to the public without proving he was Satoshi.
It doesn’t make any sense from any point of view you look at it. Now he’s not respected by the community, actually the opposite, media will still hunt him to ask for proof, or to ask why he did it. People now think he’s a con man. it really doesn’t make sense.
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He just miscalculated the outcome, or he has a motive we’re not aware of. Or he has mental problems.
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I don’t think he expected to be questioned so quickly.
I am sure of that. We have not seen the last of this drama yet. Pure theatre.
Maybe. Too hard to know.
I wonder if he considered cracking the private keys with his super computer and its just not quick enough.
He chose this, obviously he isn’t SN, but thought he might just succeed because he fooled a couple of trusted people and hoped that the public would not ask for the bleeding obvious proof.
I bet there are going to be people who actually still believe it and will justify this as ‘the right thing to do’. They cannot live in uncertainty not knowing and will keep on believing Craig Wright is SN. He can probably use that to his advantage.
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Puts tinfoil hat on.
This was planned by blockstreamcore to get rid of gavin.
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bwahahaha!!! here come the endless replies! cant wait! 
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Why is everyone working on the premise that Craig White wants people to believe he is Satoshi when:
- everything he has done has undermined that to the general public
- the only exception to that seems to be the private demonstration
- we know that Satoshi (whether CW or not) has taken great care to preserve anonymity - including stopping virtually all communication from his known accounts, for years now
The alternative is to consider: what if CW is Satoshi and, consistent with one of the few things we know about Satoshi, he is doing his best to ensure that secret remains?
All his antics appear to me to be both:
- consistent with that theory, and
- to have succeeded
The alternative is that he’s a scammer, who went to enormous lengths to create a situation in which he was obviously not going to be able to prove he was Satoshi. For what purpose? To do all that has to have a strong motivation or very important goal, and I haven’t seen anyone suggest any plausible explanation of that. We also have to believe that he did all this hoping he could fool three bitcoin experts without knowing he’d succeed, and we have to believe that he managed to do that.
Both scenarios are improbable, but him being Satoshi is the least improbable. Please also note that after proposing that, I predicted that he would back out of the proof, so the theory was also able to make a testable prediction and remains in tact.
Following through on that theory: having achieved his goals - ensuring hardly anyone will ever believe he is Satoshi, no matter what “proof”, evidence or reasoning now comes to light - I would expect CW to return to his business and private life and to have a lower profile than in recent months, getting on with his own stuff.
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It took a total of 3 seconds watching him on video to see that he is s liar. This should have been over before it started. What a div.
I also thought about this and due to the fact he didn´t make a funny face for the camera as Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto did he will probably not even turn into a meme on the web. However, when it comes to mainstream press I am quite convince they will haunt him every time Bitcoin is getting attention, so unsure how this theory works out.
With regard to those who attempted to prove he is not Satoshi: most of the “proof” is sound as well, particular the implicit ad hominem attacks that have been raised and the argument that Satoshi would behave differently (as if anyone know this for real). I love the fact that the whole “proving Satoshi” thing has been ridiculed in a sense, even if CW was Satoshi. This is just another smoke grenade in a good myth of our time. What´s more to love?
I predicted to several friends that he was a fraud. I said: “Watch this, in a few days he claims a fire destroyed his usb sticks with the keys on it. Or he claims that he got robbed from all his laptop and several backup drives saying others now have the keys and he not.” Well, how far off was I? He can’t prove he is Satoshi because he isn’t.
This is wat Wired said in December last year:
Wired found that Wright had manipulated and planted the old blog posts
Here’s more:
Bitcoin developer Greg Maxwell found that the PGP key controlled by Wright and believed to be Satoshi’s was generated using PGP cipher-suites not available at the time:
Incidentally; there is now more evidence that it’s faked. The PGP key being used was clearly backdated: its metadata contains cipher-suites which were not widely used until later software.
So in 2015 media like Wired were already concerned he was falsifying evidence to make it look as he was Satoshi. Now he got back, posted a blog with a false signature turning the whole Bitcoin community against him. Why would a person that invented Bitcoin (or was part of the team) do that? Do you have any explanation? Ohw, and after that blogpost in which he tried to fool people, he made another post that he was going to prove he was Satoshi by moving some coins and sign a message. And again, he didn’t! How much more evidence do you need he is not Satoshi?
Here’s a great article about it.
I’m not saying all things are 100% clear right now, because we still have several crypto folks who say it is him. But to the rest of the planet he turned out to be a con man. How could easily proof me and other critics wrong, but he says that it is to hard for him. Hard in what way? I would rather prove I was Satoshi in his position than forever being marked as a con man who fooled the BBC and several others, including the Bitcoin community. Who’s gonna work with him now in the business community? If he now proves with a simple signature that he has the Satoshi keys he might be able to save his karma a bit. But let me predict he won’t ;-).
Probably a good thing Satoshi isn’t revealed. Who doesn’t love a good mystery?
Bitcoin has Satoshi, Scotland has Nessie.
Maybe time to think about a mystery for the SAFE network.
A mystery creator with the nickname Nessie?
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Launch date is the mystery 
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