This is an awesome discussion. There are a few replies I want to make; and I am working on another topic that will be relevant to this one. Meanwhile, I must address this timely:
hv_, I am deleting some (but not all) of your posts on this topic.
If you want to post a statement that “Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto”
cryptographically signed by one of Satoshi’s known keys, then please feel free. I won’t delete it; indeed, I would be very interested to see that.
If you want to contradict my OP, try intelligently explaining why identity theft isn’t identity theft. Thus far, your posts have been irrelevant to OP.
If you continue to support
identity theft with proof-by-repetition of arrant nonsense that has been exhaustively debunked all over the Internet, then you are not being honest toward Satoshi; and you may thus continue to find that I am in a bad mood, as I warned in OP.
Don’t cry “censorship”. It’s a big forum. You can and do promote your agenda here; I can’t stop you from doing that,
and I don’t want to, because I
want for Craig Wright’s claims to be scrutinized so everybody can see what a liar he is. I’ve thoughtfully
archived your deleted posts so that people can see them, if they really want to. But this thread was made to discuss an angle that I think nobody thought of before. It’s a narrow topic. I watched you post a few times to see if you would say anything interesting, or even relevant. You didn’t. At this point, your posts are tantamount to someone walking into a physics conference, and taking the podium to repeat a random list of
Flat Earth arguments.
The best of which is this, which I found too funny to delete:
...it's just wishful thinking on their part that they haven't been duped by a con-artist.
I'd agree on the Point of wishful thinking [...]
It’s a winner!
Yes, I, too, wish that the Earth was flat. —Actually, no, I don’t.
Whyever would you
want to discover that Satoshi Nakamoto is really a two-faced sleazy scammer with a bad history who is completely incompetent at cryptography?
If I saw that proved, I wouldn’t reject the proof based on my own wishful thinking. It also wouldn’t affect my love of Bitcoin: It is implicit in Bitcoin’s design that Satoshi made it to grow bigger than himself, to grow beyond his control, to be free for everybody. Bitcoin has done that; and my opinion of Bitcoin itself would not be affected, if it turned out that Satoshi was a disgusting scumbag like Craig Wright. But I would be disappointed! I certainly do not wish for such a thing.
I will also leave here some of hv_’s posts that people substantially replied to, if I think that deleting them would make the replies stand unfairly out of context. I am acting now so that the same reason will not apply to others.
Edit 2020-01-16: Sent two more of hv_’s irrelevant and/or dishonest and insulting posts to /dev/null.
Archive of second page with both posts. Time to empty the bitbucket.
