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Craig Wright Willing to Testify Under Oath to CFTC That He Is Satoshi Nakamoto

by mbgaxyz on 2/19/19, 5:28 AM with 4 comments

• by T-A on 2/19/19, 7:33 AM

  So the money quote is "My name is Dr. Craig Wright and under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto I completed a project I started in 1997 that was filed with the Australian government in part under an AusIndustry project registered with the Dept. of Innovation as BlackNet."

  Googling BlackNet leads me to a post, apparently also by Wright, which describes BlackNet as "a system which appeared in 1993 and which allows fully-anonymous, two-way exchanges of information of all sorts" and attributes it to Tim May:

  http://ohmysatoshi.com/blacknet

  So it's not Bitcoin, and Wright's statement only says that he "completed" (not design, start or build all of) it using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, which may well have been used by many people, in classic "I am John Galt" fashion:

  https://www.wiley.com/en-us/I+Am+John+Galt%3A+Today%27s+Hero...

• by em3rgent0rdr on 2/19/19, 5:37 AM

  Unless someone can prove they have the private key to the genesis block, then we should doubt their claim to be Satoshi.