"Faketoshi trial day 7 notes...
Has any court ever asked him how he managed to "sign" a message for Gavin from the fourth block's address, but now says he doesn't have the key as it's "held" by a bonded courier?
But why would they? The argument between both sides in this circus is whether Faketoshi is 100% Satoshi or 50% Satoshi. Both sides would gladly attribute 22M BTC to Faketoshi if they could.
BSv's law firm already opened up their cards and showed why they need this 50% or 100% judgement in their formal letters before action sent to all of the devs:
10. In accordance with their fiduciary duties, each of the Developers is obliged to:
a. Provide access and control to TTL of the BTC in the Addresses, which it owns
but cannot access or control due to the hack/theft.
b. Take all reasonable steps to ensure that TTL has access to and control of the
BTC in the Addresses.
c. Take all reasonable steps to ensure that effect is not given to the fraud, by
ensuring that the BTC in the Addresses cannot be dealt with by anyone other
than TTL (including those who have misappropriated the private keys or
otherwise wrongly have access to the private keys).
https://www.ontier.net/ia/a1letter-before-action-from-ttl.pdfIf you still have any doubts, here's the statement directly from Faketoshi:
https://twitter.com/MyLegacyKit/status/1457437100631105536I found it helpful to stop using my logic while trying to analyze this case, (like why would you even need a supercomputer to mine on a testnet???) and just realize that the true answer to everything in this case is
this threats are most likely the reason why some developers already stopped working on bitcoin. future bitcoin devs must contribute their work completely anonymously.
and he wants to sue bitcoin nodes too? I can't wait to get mail from faketoshi's lawyers.
edit: can we just burn satoshis bitcoin? can someone make a BIP?
Yep i've been preaching for devs to go anonymous for a while. Every aspect of BTC will be tested over and over again. Every link in the chain will be hit many times in an attempt to find the weakest one. You have to be delusional to think that you can work on a new global monetary system in the open without any repercussions. Is there any example in history where people in power welcomed attempts to change the status quo? There's a reason why original dev stayed anonymous, all other devs should follow in those footsteps.
Faketoshi, he's largely irrelevant. If it wasn't him it would've been someone else. If anything, his stories are entertaining more than anything else, it could've been (will be?) worse if there was a more competent person attacking. Bitcoin doesn't fit in the current legal framework, how each country adopts it, was always to be decided at the highest levels, and not in some local kangaroo court.
As far as burning Satoshi's coins, the topic is highly controversial, as such it'll most definitely cause a fork. It's best to leave such things in incompetent hands of Faketoshi. Let him fork the chain once again unlocking Satoshis coins to himself. That should be his last battle after which he'll become a footnote in bitcoins history.