from Hacker News

Satoshi or Not, Here He Comes

by merrycherry on 7/12/23, 10:31 PM with 6 comments

  • by heartbeats on 7/12/23, 11:22 PM

    This article is very strange. It describes CSW as a "polymath," and more or less uncritically gives his side of the story:

    > Contrary to what the email to Hearn seems to indicate and what the Sourceforge trail appears to show, Wright claims he did not agree to the transfer of power. He says a new crop of Bitcoin developers, including Wladimir van der Laan, the former lead maintainer of the code repository, circumvented the administrator controls Wright used to manage the codebase when they moved the software to Github and then changed the license there. Essentially, Wright claims, bitcoin was stolen. “What I didn't expect was people to redo everything like that to bypass my administrator control,” he says. “So they set up completely new sites, and moved me out.” In an email to Forbes, van der Laan denied moving the codebase. He also denied changing the license. “This was done by Satoshi,” he wrote.

    I can see they use the word "claims," but it's not exactly something that the author of the article should have a hard time double-checking.

  • by pedalpete on 7/12/23, 11:10 PM

    https://archive.is/pXPfY

    The article is very different from what I was expecting. It's discussing Criag Wright's patents in crypto, and if he will be able to collect royalties on crypto and what that would do to the community.

  • by protocolture on 7/13/23, 3:27 AM

    Satoshi simply wouldnt need to fuck around this much. He could just cash out 1% of his winnings and be set for life.

  • by Reubend on 7/13/23, 4:10 AM

    He is not. There's no question in my mind. If Satoshi wanted to use his private key to prove that he was real, he wouldn't have needed to fake everything. If he had lost access to the key for some reason or another, he could just say that he lost it, and use other methods to authenticate himself.

  • by redroyal on 7/13/23, 3:22 AM

    Any court eventually will decide if he’s Satoshi based on if he has access to Satoshi’s private key. CW can’t do that because he’s not Satoshi. But he knows the real Satoshi is aware that coming out now is a death sentence, if he hasn’t already died or been killed