Now that the superhot weather is done and I’m functional again, let’s try to keep up with some stories. Here’s a surprising update on the Craig Wright saga, which I was following before the heat.
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Australian Craig Wright has finally admitted he is not the inventor of Bitcoin after losing several cases in the High Court of England and Wales, whose judge has suggested he be investigated for perjury.
Wright has for years claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto – the pseudonym used by whoever wrote the whitepaper that defined Bitcoin and created the reference architecture for the cryptocurrency.
And he didn’t just claim to be Bitcoin’s secret mastermind, he demanded the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) – founded to fight for open access to crypto intellectual property – remove the Bitcoin whitepaper from its website as he held its copyright. COPA demurred, and the matter went to court in the UK, where the lobby group sought to prevent Wright from claiming to be the true brains behind Bitcoin. In truth, no one knows for sure the identity of Nakamoto, or at least isn’t saying so.
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The judge who knocked down Wright’s claim is equally persistent, promising to imprison Wright if he doesn’t admit the truth. Wright apparently decided losing money was enough.
Normally a professional criminal NEVER admits anything, even after he’s in prison. His cultists can then continue believing and supporting their “unfairly wounded savior.” See any fucking politician in the world, especially Trump.
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CoinTelegraph has another article about Wright’s cult.
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He said Wright’s fraudulent playbook was broadly similar during their first meeting.
“I was shown what I now know were fraudulent documents showing that he was Satoshi — which was not true, ” Ager-Hansen told Cointelegraph.
Calvin Ayre, Wright’s billionaire financier, and Stefan Matthews, the co-founder and executive chairman of nChain, were also in attendance. “They wanted me to help him run his legal cases,” Ager-Hansen said.
Ager-Hansen explains that nChain is something akin to a “cult” with a cult mentality, and after agreeing to join, he was swiftly sucked into its strange inner workings.
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