If 'going the xtra mile' means producing a private key that actually proves access to those early coinbase outputs, then he would need a helluva lot of years to come up with it. Like the lifetime of the universe.
This is what I meant. People don't actually understand what crypto can do.
Math is solid. No opinions necessary.
nope. if someone had the private key the only thing that means is that they have satoshi's private key. they could've found it, been sent it, bought it, tortured it out of him. anyone on the planet could do that.
that doesn't prove you're satoshi by any means.
by extra mile i mean providing research and evidence you'd been looking into bitcoin's creation for years before.
Faking the kind of 'evidence' you're looking for is far easier than faking private keys.
Sure, the key could have been tortured out of him. Systems always surround the crypto guarantees and that environment doesn't have the same guarantees.
This being a trading thread and all means you'd prolly be more interested in the person who had the keys in that case, rather than if that person wrote the original bitcoin code.
If you were craig wright and you had those keys (you tortured satoshi), wouldn't you use them to prove that you had access to the coinbase outputs? After all, you're trying to prove you are the man.
CW made no such attempt ... I'm ignoring the ridiculously contrived meeting in a dark room. That was all just theater.
