Craig Wright faces tough questions over forged documents in court

The whole story seems so bizarre. As far as I understand it, some kind of fraudster got caught up in a bunch of his own lies, of which being the inventor of Bitcoin happened to be one. We&#x27;re only reading about it because &quot;Bitcoin&quot; happens to be a frothy buzzword that gets the clicks. Otherwise this would just be some local news case about a wacky person saying the darndest things.<p>It&#x27;s funny how we decide what&#x27;s news.

Pretending to be vastly richer than you really are happens to be the first step in a large number of confidence games.<p>In case anyone wonders why someone would want to pretend they&#x27;re Satoshi.

At the end of the day, all he needs to do is use the Satoshi key on a transaction on the bitcoin blockchain to prove everything.<p>He hasn’t and can’t.<p>Am I wrong?

The amazing things is that this guy -- an obvious fraud and conman -- has been invited to numerous high-level Bitcoin&#x2F;Blockchain conferences as a speaker.<p>It always stuns me how relatively few people are able to spot frauds (although it explains a lot about our current political situation). I&#x27;m guessing 40-50% of the population is susceptible to this kind of trickery.

&gt; And a font copyrighted in 2015 appeared on an another email supposedly dispatched in 2011.<p>This keeps happening in court, mostly with Microsoft Word Calibri. It&#x27;s kinda funny how effective such a simple oversight is at proving document forgery.

Long read, hopefully movie comes out at some point: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docdroid.net&#x2F;5LZMLHb&#x2F;06-28-19-ber-kleiman.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.docdroid.net&#x2F;5LZMLHb&#x2F;06-28-19-ber-kleiman.pdf</a><p>So keys to satoshi’s Bitcoins are possibly going to be available in 2020 according to Wright.

I&#x27;m starting to wonder if Wright could actually be pathologically delusional and convinced to be Satoshi, despite the accumulated evidence against it. I&#x27;m no psychologist but it reminds me of how paranoid schizophrenia is typically presented.<p>At the beginning, it looked like an elaborate fraud but now, he barely makes any sense at all in his declarations.

Can someone explain the public address thing? The courts seem to demand he list the public addresses where all Thai early mines bitcoin lies.<p>He says he cannot produce it because of this splintered trust.<p>But, the addresses are available for all to see on the blockchain itself, it is the private keys which are hidden away.<p>How is this basic fact just ignored in all these proceedings?

The case seems a bit nuts in that Wright isn&#x27;t Satoshi so his business partners estate won&#x27;t achieve much by suing him for coins he can&#x27;t have stolen from the business partner because he doesn&#x27;t have them.

Bitcoin is evil in some aspects. Its enigmatic origin triggers religiosity. Bitcoin consumes those who learn about it. It&#x27;s like a spell. When price goes down, you&#x27;d come into its defense. When price goes up, it occupies your brain. Bitcoin can be a source of good. But it comes with a lot of evil. Craig Wright fell for its evil.

Roux being Satoshi is the only plausible explanation I heard in a long time. This clown is not.

The article presupposes that Craig is not Satoshi.<p>If Craig is Satoshi, then the article and these comments on it, read very differently.

I do not understand why everybody is hating the guy so much. Listen to what he sais. He does not want Bitcoin to be used for buying drugs and child pornography. He wants to use it to make companies more accountable towards their users and governments more accountable towards their constituents. What&#x27;s so terrible about that?<p>Then there is his claim to be Satoshi. At this point, nobody knows if that is true or not. Yet everybody is acting as if they _knew_ he is a liar and a fraud. That seems to be the justification for hate. What happened to innocent until proven guilty?<p>My take is: I do not know if he is Satoshi or not. I also do not care. I listen to want he thinks about Bitcoin and I like what I hear.