Alarming indeed.
My initial feelings here are that Gavin needs a key supporter to move people from core, even if temporary and proven to be false down the road... his prior attempts have not worked. How do you round up all of the old original community members and get them to follow you?... Bring back Satoshi and have him support your plans. I think its an attempt to harness the 'reaction' and pull one over on the bitcoin community to get them to move, I would expect Wright to soon reveal what he's been "working on" with his staff of people that don't want to be bothered and I think it will fall in line with projects that Gavin is pursuing... XT, Classic, "Unlimited" *I'm taking off my tinfoil hat now*
But Gavin is smart enough to realise the current level of 'proof' wouldn't last an hour under scrutiny. Why would he stake his reputation on something so flimsy? Is a 12 hour window enough time time to convince core devs to do this? Wouldn't core devs check the 'proof' for themselves?
A good theory but it doesn't seem like it would be sufficient time to do what you're suggesting.
Greed clouds judgement... but I don't think he really needs the core developers, he's got a team of developers that will be paid for by Mr. Wright. He needs the community to move towards a new blockchain or fork to actually become the new "Satoshi" himself.
Well something is up, even if Craig was Satoshi and Gavin was becoming buddy buddy with him there would be no reason to announce something that has been kept hidden, except for influence. I am still leaning my bets on this being a hack by a monster of a troll.
I'm not buying the hack story... he was either authentically fooled by the dingo or he's in cahoots. If he were hacked, his posts or the entire site itself would be taken down by now, right now he wants people to see his words on that blog post.
Thanks BBC!
