My personal favorite is where the ">" symbol is changed to a "<" symbol in a different font, not only making the forgery completely obvious, but also making the equations in the whitepaper incorrect and meaningless. The true work of Satoshi. Lol.
To be fair, that change alone would be consistent with it being a "draft" that he supposedly fixed. What blows that up is that it's the correct symbol in the other font. So it was impossible for it to be an error, the wrong character had to come from being substituted with a font that didn't exist until long after the paper's supposed date. Same issue that lambda has. It is funny that when checking his forgery wright didn't even notice wingdings replacing his mathmatics.
but he really is well versed in his theology degree and he uses it more then any other degree he supposedly has
Ironically, the theology degree is almost certainly the fakest of them all. It looks like the situation there was that he wanted varrious masters degrees for self promotion purposes and learned that his crackerjack school would grant credit for IT certificates (which are done via computer based testing, which presumably he cheated at). But a problem he should have faced there is that he had no undergraduate degree to meet the prerequisites. So he cooked up a fake theology degree because who the heck is going to check on that?
They definitely are unconvincing, but that might not be the intention at all. CSW knows he's not Satoshi, and knows the public knows that too. He also knows he has no proof to convince us otherwise, so rather than convincing, he's intention might be to bully everyone to at best, not challenge his stand that he indeed is Satoshi, even if you do not believe it.
This sort of trial is straining on those involved. Hodlonaut would have wanted none of this publicity and financial demands that comes with the suit, many others would also not want that. So bullying people to silence, would leave none to challenge his stance or proof the inaccuracies in his position to the world, or court.
I think harassment and intimidation is clearly a primary motivation-- he's pretty much said so himself in some of his more unhinged rants on his public slack (during hodl he was falsely alleging that the slack was private: Not so, not any more than a newspaper you have to pay for a subscription to is private).
Mr. Wright himself must know that he has zero chance in court-- even where he might have the chance of a massively confused court he manages to submit enough easily beyond-a-reasonable-doubt-provable-forgeries that his eventual loss is guaranteed. But the same may not be true for the people financing him (and paying for his lifestyle). I think it's likely that he's suckered various high-wealth-low-scruples people into thinking that they're going to "won all the cases" and get a jackpot of tens of billions of dollars.
It's really just a new take on a very classic con: I convince you that I'm a card hustling savant but down on my luck because I got caught by the last casino (AU tax office) and now I can't finance my big comeback. The mark gets the idea of financing me so I can take down the big win (convince some court to magically award Satoshis Bitcoin), and I accept a split with the mark. I pretend to work with the mark to get the big score, but I'm really just pocketing as much of the mark's money as I can while I keep dragging out the conclusion. The fact that I can use the process to harass and intimidate anyone who gets in my way is just a super bonus.
God knows what they could pull off if they really did manage to silence and intimidate everyone.
Before being the target of litigation I really didn't appreciate how taxing it is. Especially being in a prolonged situation where you can count on any word you speak being heavily misconstrued, where you have no hope of a gain only a hope of minimizing losses, where your future schedule is dictated by what is by all appearances an organized crime group directed by a madman. Where you don't know if you will be hit with millions of dollars in costs if donors run into issues or be forced to abandon a competent defense if you can't pay them. Lately they've been trying like hell to silence me off the internet completely.
It's like how people romanticize war, but war is not romantic-- it's hell. While I'm sure being the target of litigation is not comparable to war, there are some similarities-- your future being taken out of your hands, the constant powerless *waiting* for the next disaster to strike commanding a immediate emergency response, and the fact that any misstep could guarantee your loss, even against a generally incompetent opponent. Lots of people want to help but there is really little anyone else can do except sending supplies... And while normally litigation doesn't involve the risk of death, when dealing with a criminal cartel that thinks you're in the way of billions of dollars in profit that risk can't be discounted completely (certainly there have been enough threats, including
by wright himself).
FWIW, I was on the webex for most of the trial and so I directly heard all the parts in English --there were quite a few that haven't been published-- and had some other translation of much of the rest. Based on the twitter feeds I think Hodlo's position is looking good, but my impression from the trial was even stronger. There were a number of cases where I was disappointed to not hear Holdonaut's lawyer press a witness only for the *judge* to turn around and do so.
There were a number of cases of perjury that should be prosecutable but experience says that just won't happen.
In general the Norwegian courts came across as very ... soft. Not pressing witnesses into corners when it seemed likely that doing so would yield an admission or a contradiction, I guess we'll see if that translates into an equally soft rulings. The judge very much was paying attention and asked many highly intelligent questions.
