Cryptocurrency: Craig Wright is a Liar, Fraud, and Royal Asshole

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sun Feb 26 10:18:15 PST 2023


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/bitcoin-blockchain-tech/the-story-of-bitcoin-continued/

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/bitcoincashSV/comments/bwb40q/satoshis_prediction/

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

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[–]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.)

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[–]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.

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[–]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...

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[–]HootieMcBEUB 1 point 2 hours ago

Craig stated he has the pineapple. It was left over parts from the
Gavin fake sign.

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[–]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....

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[–]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!

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[–]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.

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[–]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.

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[–]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

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[–]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

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[–]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?

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[–]jvasiliev 5 points 16 hours ago

Reference: https://twitter.com/ADT_UK/status/1385570492967497729

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[–]Psalamist[S] 1 point 9 hours ago

Aw man, how did I forget this?

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[–]Over-Ad151 1 point 8 hours ago

The link to the jawbreaker story is broken

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[–]anonymouscitizen2 1 point 7 hours ago

Im not the OP

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[–]nullc 9 points 16 hours ago

(from the OP)

Wright on a murder-vacation in Venezuela.

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[–]nullc 8 points 16 hours ago

(from the OP)

Craig and checksum checkmate.

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[–]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.

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[–]WikiSummarizerBot 2 points 15 hours ago

Gambler's fallacy

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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
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[–]nullc 7 points 16 hours ago

(from the OP)

Craig and the $1200 BSV.

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[–]nullc 7 points 16 hours ago

(from the OP)

Craig and the rolling Iceberg.

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[–]nullc 7 points 17 hours ago

People should make one post per fabulist statement so people can upvote them.

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[–]ohsomofo 1 point 3 hours ago

Wouldn’t that would require Reddit to migrate to BSV to store all that data.

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[–]nullc 7 points 16 hours ago

(from the OP)

Truth's defining death threats as anything negative about him or BSV

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[–]nullc 4 points 16 hours ago

https://www.buzzsprout.com/241544/12265153-craig-wright-on-the-very-start-of-bitcoin.mp3

300 proof of work distributed cryptocurrencies before bitcoin.

30,000 cryptocurrencies that existed since the 80s.

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[–]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.

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[–]NinaClap 2 points 10 hours ago

That was when he didnt know you couldn't have a 0 in base58. Satoshi
designed base58

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[–]NinaClap 4 points 10 hours ago

Cellphones for the poorest 1 million (or was it 1 billion) people

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[–]Purple_Ad_1118 1 point 32 minutes ago

It was 1 billion lol

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[–]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

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[–]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."

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[–]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/

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[–]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.

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[–]22-Squealer 2 points 8 hours ago

Clown shoes.

So. Many. Clown shoes.

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[–]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.

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[–]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.

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[–]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.

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[–]nullc 2 points 16 hours ago

(from the OP)

Ryan and Craig's second comming.

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[–]StiltonG 2 points 14 hours ago

Aka The Rapture!

Praise be to God Craig

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[–]FourRefrigerators -9 points 17 hours ago

I hope they're paying you well.

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[–]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.

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[–]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

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[–]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.

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