Maraming Salamat, Baofeng, for the Filipino translation!
Ang pagkakakilanlan ng hindi nagpapakilalang tagapagtatag ng Bitcoin ay ninakaw ng isang impostor.
Si Craig Wright ay isang magnanakaw ng pagkakakilanlan:
Si Craig Wright ay isang magnanakaw ng pagkakakilanlan:
Hatur Nuhun, Husna QA, for the Indonesian translation! (And this is the first time that my mundane communications with a translator have been wholly PGP-encrypted. Husna takes his crypto seriously.)
Identitas anonim pencipta Bitcoin dicuri oleh penipu
Craig Wright adalah pencuri identitas:
Craig Wright adalah pencuri identitas:
...with my further thanks again to Taikuri, Gazeta, and Manish for starting this trend!
Craig Wright claimed in the Supreme Court of New South Wales that he controlled 1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF
He presented a sworn document purportedly created in 2013 where his lawyer swore that Craig controlled the address 1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF
The funds in this address were used as collateral for his business ventures.
He presented a sworn document purportedly created in 2013 where his lawyer swore that Craig controlled the address 1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF
The funds in this address were used as collateral for his business ventures.
Unless there is something that I missed here, I doubt that Craig Wright has access to the 1Feex private key. Let’s lather up with falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, and shave down the following with Occam’s Razor:
- To damn all the more by understatement, CSW has a known history (!) of claiming possession of private keys which, in fact, he does not possess. What evidence do we have that his 1Fee private key isn’t just like the Tulip briefcase-load of Satoshi private keys being handled by an action-movie secret-agent courier?
- Anybody who actually stole almost EIGHTY THOUSAND BITCOINS (!) should damn well know to never associate himself with that his stash of loot in a document filed with a court (!!). Would a bank robber point to his stolen sacks of cash in a court filing?
- To my knowledge, there is no evidence that CSW has any advanced hacking skills (or even a competent understanding of how Bitcoin works). Is there any evidence that he is concealing a keen technical intelligence behind his shrewd techno-clown showman swindle?
- The 1Feex address is a longtime popular mystery, and most people have no idea what it is (2014-12-28: The only mention of “Gox” in that four-page thread, with no mention of the hack: “The 1Fee address is probably an MT Gox address although there is no direct evidence, just circumstantial.”). Yes, I know of later-discussed evidence in various places. But try web-searching the address by itself, with no mention of Gox; you will find endless pages of social media speculation and fantasy completely unrelated to Mt. Gox.
CSW could have simply picked that address the way almost everybody else finds it: Looking at the richlists. Faketoshi Classic: “Hey, I need me something to claim as collateral... hmmm, let’s see: What Bitcoin address has lots of money just sitting there?” - Most lawyers and most courts are ignorant of technology—and you must multiply that factor a thousandfold for anything pertaining to Bitcoin in 2013! It would be much easier to fool them than to fool (or “fool”) Gavin; and it’s unlikely that anybody would even keep an eye on the address to see if funds moved later. A career scammer would know this. It is just the type of human vulnerability that he exploits daily.
- If, as I suspect, Faketoshi may be on a leash being held by whomever I suspect to have compromised Gavin, “whoever” wants efficient, covert means to disrupt Bitcoin. And if you want to shave away “whomever”, just consider that greedy, Bitcoin-hating scammer CSW has probably heard of a “short”.
Regardless of the difficulty that the 1Fee possessor may have in recovering spendable money from it, anybody with private key to that address could wreak at least short-term havoc on the Bitcoin market—not merely in terms of the direct economic effect of “only” eighty thousand bitcoins, but much moreso through the FUD “news” headlines that could be generated. Nuff said?
Whereas a real blackhat would may not want to disrupt the Bitcoin market that way, if he anyway has plenty of spending money from other hacks. Why? For better or for worse, the “you shall protect Bitcoin” aspect of the Social Phenomenon applies to blackhats, too—at least to some degree. I think to myself, if I were an intelligent blackhat acting only from rational self-interest, what would I do with 1Fee? Probably more or less sit on it as my cold-stored nest egg and proof of ultimate pwnage, as I merrily spend all the other bitcoins that I have stolen in smaller, more easily-laundered amounts. What? Do I want to FUD the market for the money that I enjoy stealing and spending? Lulz, I’m rolling in gold—I will not smack the goose that lays the golden eggs.
That being said, the question of whether or not Faketoshi possesses the 1Fee key is almost irrelevant at this particular moment if he claimed possession of stolen property in a court filing. Either he essentially confessed to interesting crimes or, more likely, he committed a whole bundle of other interesting crimes rippling outward from lies told to a court. In terms of his fate, the question of whether or not he actually possesses said property is thus tantamount to asking if he shot himself in his left foot, or shot himself in his right foot.
Of course, that question is much more interesting to any Gox creditors; but that is a separate issue, and unlikely to be a big issue due to the unlikelihood that he actually has a private key which he may have only “proved” to his lawyer similarly to how he “proved” a Satoshi key to Gavin.
I am 99% certain that it was Craig S Wright who masterminded the Mt Gox robbery. If this can be established,
Evidence establishing 99% certainty? I doubt it, but I want to see it proved if it’s true. Instant “game over” for Faketoshi, Nchain, and probably a few other bad characters closely associated with him. Maybe also even a bit more recovery for people who got Goxed. So... proof? (Preferably in a concise link to/quote of more discussion elsewhere.)
It might be easier to start a lawsuit to recover the $700 million in MtGox coins that were stolen in 2011 that he claimed to have the private keys to in 2013.
If CSW claims to control the keys, then those are stolen funds and must be surrendered.
I will file that under “maximum lulz”: Obviously, his defence must be to prove that he deceived a court in 2013! Any which way it plays out, it would be mighty tough for people with badges to ignore.
“O, what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive.”
— Sir Walter Scott
