Seems to me like there are two possible scenarios here:<p>1. Craig Wright is telling the truth, but has released a bad proof to misdirect everyone into believing he is not Satoshi. Maybe he's just having a laugh.<p>2. Craig Wright is lying.<p>Even if he's not Satoshi, he seems smart enough to know he wouldn't get away with releasing shoddy proofs. Perhaps he thought the mainstream media would say "Craig Wright invented Bitcoin" and anyone that disagreed would be called a conspiracy nut.<p>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't care what people think of him if he's just made $20 million. Could it have anything to do with his ongoing legal troubles with the tax authorities in Australia?<p>At this stage, I'm seeing plenty of people saying "Here's why Craig Wright isn't Satoshi" and that's interesting and useful. But I haven't seen anyone establish why Craig Wright would be lying.<p>Also, it's interesting that "The Real Satoshi" has not posted something saying he's not Craig Wright, as we have seen with previous "exposés".
Not that I think Craig Wright has presented any evidence that he is Satoshi, but if the anonymous creator of Truecrypt can be an international drug lord and weapons dealer, why can't the anonymous creator of a cryptocurrency be a serial fraud and tax evader?
Can somebody explain to me, what is this?<p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/03/bitcoin_craig_wright/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/03/bitcoin_craig_wright...</a><p>Is it satire or real Craig Wright?
I'm no crypto guy, but what's all this about different versions of OpenSSL succeeding or failing to validate a signature? That sounds like it should be interesting in its own right...
If the person known as Satoshi wanted to verify their identity, couldn't they simply agree to create a transaction on the Blockchain from some BTC directly from the first few blocks (<a href="https://blockchain.info/block/000000006a625f06636b8bb6ac7b960a8d03705d1ace08b1a19da3fdcc99ddbd" rel="nofollow">https://blockchain.info/block/000000006a625f06636b8bb6ac7b96...</a>)?