Cryptocurrency: Craig Wright is a Liar, Fraud, and Royal Asshole
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2020/05/25/craig-wright-called-fraud-in-mess... Craig Wright Called 'Fraud' in Message Signed With Bitcoin Addresses He Claims to Own "Back in 2016, White Ops Chief Scientist Dan Kaminsky went so far as to call him the "world’s first cryptographically provable con artist." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfOlE-mmYBo Faketoshi RageQuit https://github.com/albacorelabs/FakeToshi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29TX4GJyCCY Asshole Faketoshi on stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm7-eZvfl5o Faketoshi cast https://faketoshi.cypherpunks.xyz/ "What #cryptocurrency learned in 2018. Craig Wright aka #Faketoshi (Not #Bitcoin's founder) is against decentralization, is pro-censorship, threatens legal action, is anti free-market, anti open-source & is a pro-government authoritarian centralizing power to 1 man rule! #NoThanks" https://craigwrightisnotsatoshi.com/pdfs/Faketoshi,%20The%20Early%20Years%20... https://github.com/faketoshi/site
Pompous Asshat Craig Wright in the news again... Sign a cryptographic proof, in public, using the Genesis key, or remain an imposter fraud and get lost. Not that it matters, the free crypto world isn't going to follow an asshole like you, anyway, nor anyone else for that matter. Code, Freedom, Privacy, and more, rule and self-represent now. Nothing else. https://github.com/vbuterin/cult-of-craig Peter Todd @peterktodd Feb 4 We made the right call in ejecting @gavinandresen from Bitcoin. It doesn't matter what NDAs or other agreements he might have signed with Craig Wright. Continuing to leave this up is being complicit with fraud. The ethical thing to do is rescind it and accept the consequences. hodlonaut @hodlonaut Feb 4 This is still up on @gavinandresen’s blog, and still being used by CSW to try and bankrupt me and other bitcoiners in court. Gavin remains silent. gavinandresen.ninja/satoshi
Craig LOSES, Again, Lol... https://i.redd.it/vrzvbfnhhzga1.png https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoY8LG7WIAwfXca?format=png&name=4096x4096 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29TX4GJyCCY Judge rules Craig Wright loses copyright infringement case on the "Bitcoin File Format" I'm sure you've heard that Craig Wright has sued bitcoin developers for copyright infringement on 3 issues: The Bitcoin Whitepaper, the Bitcoin blockchain, and the Bitcoin File Format. Yesterday, a judge ruled that "there is no serious issue to be tried. I see no reason why any of the defendants should be burdened with this particular claim" and denied Wright to appeal when it comes to the file format. Basically, the judge has ruled that Wright can't serve the out-of-jurisdiction defendants on the third claim, since he wasn't able to provide evidence that the "Bitcoin File Format" was ever recorded.
The best of Craig... by Psalamist These are just my own favourite moments from the last four and a half years of his cosplay comedy Craig tells the community of the most gullible saps in internet history about when he was shot twice whilst working as a member of (the leader of?) a black ops team taking out human traffickers “permanently”: "I was offline for much of January 2011. During the time, I had travelled to Venezuela where I was working with a “Jawbreaker” team. The work was focused on stopping the trafficking of humans for the sex trade. I was in “prevention.” I did not bring people to justice, I worked with teams to stop things, permanently." "My “Blind Date” in Venezuela had me progressing West to the border of Colombia. It was my last operation of the type. I was shot twice, and evidence of it is likely to still exist on the Internet for all my efforts to have destroyed it. I met with Colombian El Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) agents, as my job was accessing systems and information, and on the occasion, it was related to an operation associated with garnishing evidence against FARC-V. Before, I was what some people would call an “agent of influence.” https://web.archive.org/web/20190524061133/https://craigwright.net/blog/bitc... Craig makes his famous predictions of how the crypto markets will look at the end of 2019. He does not generally call price, but asserts with 97.8% probability that BSV will be over $1,200 (With 0.1% for no blockchain winning and 2.1% for another). He calculates with 96% probability that BSV will be the no. 1 coin within 2 years (so mid-2021) and that by then most people would be of the opinion that they always knew he was Satoshi. Now it’s easy for us to mock with hindsight, but the 0% accuracy of the world’s foremost expert on most things is quite surprising. Especially when he gives such specific probabilities on such a wide field of options. https://web.archive.org/web/20220915155655/https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoinc... The rolling iceberg threat. He made it in 2019. It didn’t happen. Perhaps there are still BSVers living in a bunker somewhere waiting. Seems unlikely. File with the bonded courier and other such postering The checksum checkmate; Just a lovely gotcha moment. There is no coming back from that. Final proof that there is no BSV community now, just paid shills and scammers, as I cannot accept that anyone could read that account and still maintain that Creg was Satoshi Honourable mentions: Ryan wondering if Creg was Jesus returned (he isn’t), but I’m wary of posting that given as it was a pretty sad watch Turth logging all criticism of Creg, himself or BSV as “death threats” (whilst making death threats against anyone who criticises Creg, himself or BSV) [–]anonymouscitizen2 10 points 17 hours ago I’ll add the infamous pineapple story. Where Craig Wright said his home was broken into and a pineapple wifi scraping device was placed which stole the keys to the Mt Gox address among others. Craig also claimed that ATT data centers went down during the attack and implies the attackers were so sophisticated they also took down ATT to get into Craigs house undetected. When ATT was asked about the data center outage they said in no uncertain terms it never happened, they did not suffer an outage at all. When Craig was confronted about this later he claimed he never said ATT data centers went down (he 100% did) and it was just his own systems, then he called the people who brought it up trolls and blocked them. No investigation has been done in the largest home theft of all time in England and Craig seems fine with that. Later in Court Craig says he had a backup of these keys but he stomped the hard drive so nobody could make him sign anything for sure. Yep, the “hacked” Bitcoin worth >$1B that has never been moved from the starting address despite being hacked, he stomped. He could’ve gotten it out of the hacked address at least, nope, just stomped. Goodbye
$1B, I’m sure Calvin was pleased with that
permalink embed save report reply [–]AlreadyBannedOnceFanatic about BSV 7 points 17 hours ago ^ this because so many diverse elements. Home breakin, multiple security service outages, no police report, stomped on the hard drive (add no coin movement, but that's not Craig peeing himself, that's the world peeing on Craig.) permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LurkishEmpire 4 points 12 hours ago The big one for me is that neither he nor the police has ever appealed for witnesses. It's the biggest single heist in British history, carried out by some Oceans 11 team, and yet not once has any appeal been put out to see if anyone actually saw anything suspicious. I would love to be able to ask the police what they've done about this. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Calculus99 1 point 10 hours ago WHERE IS THE "PINEAPPLE".... That is probably THE most important bit of evidence for the Police. Where was it bought, how was it bought, who bought it and so on. Think about it, it's hard to buy anything these days without leaving a trail of clues. The only way to secretly buy something is to wear a mask and pay with cash in a shop. But even then, with so many cameras around (public and private) it wouldn't be hard for the Police to track that person, how they got to the shop, where they went afterwards, what car (public transport) they used, when they took their mask off and so on. WHERE IS THE PINAPPLE and what do the Police know about it... permalink embed save parent report reply [–]HootieMcBEUB 1 point 2 hours ago Craig stated he has the pineapple. It was left over parts from the Gavin fake sign. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Calculus99 1 point an hour ago How convenient. So the Ninja raiders must have programmed it when they broke into his house? Again, how convenient.... permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LurkishEmpire 6 points 12 hours ago The drive he stomped on wasn't actually for these coins, it was (allegedly!) the key slices to the tulip trust coins, in a the form of a Shamir sharing scheme that would unlock the algorithms that would allow him to generate the private keys to the one million bitcoins mined in 2009/10. So it's actually worse, because he says he destroyed the tulip trust keys only for his wife to sue Ira Kleiman in 2021 for wiping hard disks that contained backups of the tulip trust keys! permalink embed save parent report reply [–]NervousNorbert 3 points 10 hours ago This doesn't even make the theft case any better; it just means his story is that he had a billion dollars worth of bitcoin on a computer connected to the internet, and this was the only copy – he had no backup at all. But he's one of the world's most highly regarded IT security experts. Oh and the private keys that were stolen were in an encrypted file, explaining why the bitcoins haven't moved. It's just a perfect "dog ate my homework" story. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LurkishEmpire 3 points 10 hours ago And also he doesn't seem to have had any negative reaction to losing a billion dollars - just shrugged it off and said "it was too much money anyway". Yeah...no. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]anonymouscitizen2 1 point 7 hours ago He said he destroyed two drives overtime. He said this yea. He also said he destroyed the drive which had the mtgox address keys and evidence of the pineapple hack. His lies are so convoluted and ever changing permalink embed save parent report reply [–]LurkishEmpire 1 point 7 hours ago I didn't know he said he destroyed the 1feex backups - do you know then he said it? Apart from the post-hack wipe, obvs permalink embed save parent report reply [–]anonymouscitizen2 1 point 3 hours ago I don’t know exactly when he said it, it was covered in the dr Bitcoin Pod. I think ep 9? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]jvasiliev 5 points 16 hours ago Reference: https://twitter.com/ADT_UK/status/1385570492967497729 permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Psalamist[S] 1 point 9 hours ago Aw man, how did I forget this? permalink embed save parent report reply [–]Over-Ad151 1 point 8 hours ago The link to the jawbreaker story is broken permalink embed save parent report reply [–]anonymouscitizen2 1 point 7 hours ago Im not the OP permalink embed save parent report reply [–]nullc 9 points 16 hours ago (from the OP) Wright on a murder-vacation in Venezuela. permalink embed save report reply [–]nullc 8 points 16 hours ago (from the OP) Craig and checksum checkmate. permalink embed save report reply [–]sportscliche 9 points 15 hours ago Losing the Peter Rizun selfish mining bet. Impossible that the inventor of Bitcoin would succumb to the Gambler’s Fallacy. permalink embed save report reply [–]WikiSummarizerBot 2 points 15 hours ago Gambler's fallacy The gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy or the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the incorrect belief that, if a particular event occurs more frequently than normal during the past, it is less likely to happen in the future (or vice versa), when it has otherwise been established that the probability of such events does not depend on what has happened in the past. Such events, having the quality of historical independence, are referred to as statistically independent. [ F.A.Q | Opt Out | Opt Out Of Subreddit | GitHub ] Downvote to remove | v1.5 permalink embed save parent report reply [–]nullc 7 points 16 hours ago (from the OP) Craig and the $1200 BSV. permalink embed save report reply [–]nullc 7 points 16 hours ago (from the OP) Craig and the rolling Iceberg. permalink embed save report reply [–]nullc 7 points 17 hours ago People should make one post per fabulist statement so people can upvote them. permalink embed save report reply [–]ohsomofo 1 point 3 hours ago Wouldn’t that would require Reddit to migrate to BSV to store all that data. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]nullc 7 points 16 hours ago (from the OP) Truth's defining death threats as anything negative about him or BSV permalink embed save report reply [–]nullc 4 points 16 hours ago https://www.buzzsprout.com/241544/12265153-craig-wright-on-the-very-start-of... 300 proof of work distributed cryptocurrencies before bitcoin. 30,000 cryptocurrencies that existed since the 80s. permalink embed save report reply [–]One_Gas8634 3 points 12 hours ago how about O in bitcoin addresses? or was that part of the checksum checkmate, my memory fails me. permalink embed save report reply [–]NinaClap 2 points 10 hours ago That was when he didnt know you couldn't have a 0 in base58. Satoshi designed base58 permalink embed save parent report reply [–]NinaClap 4 points 10 hours ago Cellphones for the poorest 1 million (or was it 1 billion) people permalink embed save report reply [–]Purple_Ad_1118 1 point 32 minutes ago It was 1 billion lol permalink embed save parent report reply [–]anjin33 3 points 6 hours ago Craig making up the story that you "can't sign without identity" during a live interview when he was asked why someone just signed 160 adresses that Craig claimed were his with a message calling him a fraud. He then abruptly ends the interview before the interviewer can do any more damage https://twitter.com/amberXBT/status/1470694509373702146 permalink embed save report reply [–]22-Squealer 3 points 8 hours ago "I’ll say this quite frankly, because I’ve got more money than your country, so I’m not going to ask for anything. I don’t want your investment. I don’t want — like Stellar and everything else — to be handed money. I don’t really care." permalink embed save report reply [–]anjin33 3 points 6 hours ago Craig going full "billionaire mode" on Peter Todd on Twitter. "Screw you Toddler..." Then gets called out by another user and proceeds to post pictures of a rented Lambo and a picture of some expensive yacht he found on the internet claiming it was his 😂 https://coinjournal.net/news/did-craig-wright-lie-about-his-yacht/ permalink embed save report reply [–]22-Squealer 2 points 8 hours ago Craig swinging a katana around in a manner suggesting he's spent a lot of time practicing in front of the mirror but has never received instruction from anyone with the first clue about Japanese swordsmanship. permalink embed save report reply [–]22-Squealer 2 points 8 hours ago Clown shoes. So. Many. Clown shoes. permalink embed save report reply [–]cryptodevil 2 points 4 hours ago Before, I was what some people would call an “agent of influence.” Even beyond the absurdly infantile "Jawbreaker" fantasy is this, where Craig is implying that he worked undercover as an intelligence agent. He's literally wanting people to perceive him as James fucking Bond. There are even moments in his many court cases where he's stated that he's unable to answer certain questions and his lawyer steps in to advise the judge that there are 'high-level' reasons for his inability to do so. Basically he's tapping his nose and saying that won't give an answer because that would risk exposing matters of national (or even global in this idiot's head) security and his lawyers believe this because he's told them it's true and the judge has to accept it because it is being said under oath and nobody is challenging it as being the utter fucking bullshit that it is. permalink embed save report reply [–]ohsomofo 2 points 3 hours ago I admire Craig for having the foresight to setup the most complex and convoluted data protection scheme imaginable in order to safeguard the block rewards from his mining back when Bitcoin had no value. Wouldn’t this complicated tulip trust scheme need to have been implemented from before the genesis block? Didn’t all these mining rewards go directly into the trust which held private keys which were protected by the Shamir scheme and the key slices scattered all over the world with the only way to retrieve them being a mad cap adventure with Nicholas Cage? At least he’s learning a bit. Now his predictions are dated around 2028 or something. Gives so much more s̵c̵h̵e̵m̵i̵n̵g̵ breathing room. And by then all predictions that don’t come to pass will have been long forgotten. permalink embed save report reply [–]ohsomofo 2 points 2 hours ago Now that I see that thought on screen, I guess all that could be implemented at any time. But at the time he said he did this, wasn’t that stash of Bitcoin only worth about $1 a coin or something? Although there was a spike in 2011, it just seems a bit far fetched to be putting that kind of effort to protect your magic internet beans. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]nullc 2 points 16 hours ago (from the OP) Ryan and Craig's second comming. permalink embed save report reply [–]StiltonG 2 points 14 hours ago Aka The Rapture! Praise be to God Craig permalink embed save parent report reply [–]FourRefrigerators -9 points 17 hours ago I hope they're paying you well. permalink embed save report reply [–]AlreadyBannedOnceFanatic about BSV 7 points 16 hours ago Why? You looking for a raise? Unhappy with Calvin's salary structure? Submit your resume, cover letter, and references. Include all sox, BSV purchases, arrests, medications, restraining orders. List all BEUBchain uploads, downloads, and articles of clothing you purchased after seeing Craig wear them. Show any and all passport stamps to Tuvalu, Antigua, Australia, Norway, Slovenia. How many steps from your bedroom up to the first floor? Do you have grill experience, or just fries? Explain why you want to work here, and how you will tell Calvin and Craig you're leaving. We look forward to hearing from you early and often. permalink embed save parent report reply [–]anonymouscitizen2 7 points 17 hours ago Says the guy on the fresh shill account whose only post is whining on the fully astroturfed and dead bsv sub. Projection at its finest permalink embed save parent report reply [–]itsnotlupus 5 points 16 hours ago Don't forget to take a screenshot of this post and go to MS Paint town on it. Not to make any cogent point, but just to express indignation about the whole thing somehow. The world is a harsh place when we're all being paid, we're all Greg, and you alone know the truth, but you just don't have the words. permalink embed save parent report reply
I revisited BSV last year or so and was surprised it was suffering repeated 51% attacks to rewind the chain and doublespend. I joined a chat and learned investors decided to burn money to outhash the attackers and reestablish the original fork.
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