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[bitcoin !CASHyfZK6k No.11653960]

I'm less and less convinced that this is just an elaborate hoax. And believe me, I want SN to stay anonymous, because a myth around Bitcoin's creator will always be way cooler than reality. Time-travelling AI, Aliens, you name it ;)

I can't explain the PGP thing, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if someone comes up with some scenario/explanation that would make it less of a "smoking gun".

Wright is the CEO of CLOUDCROFT PTY. LTD. [1][2] (founded in 2011) and they do own the fastest privately owned supercomputer in the world, worth presumably over $100m [3]. And they seem to be running bitcoin network simulations on it. [4]

A lot of money for a small, privately owned, company. Maybe he sold ~100k bitcoin and just went and bought a supercomputer with it. The first listing of the supercomputer in the top500.org list is exactly one year after the bitcoin price ATH.

/u/nullc did a fine job of showing inconsistencies in the story, like the above mentioned seemingly backdated PGP key. But even he said that Wright's comments may be a poor job of explaining something pretty complex [5] suggesting that he is a few steps ahead and may have more information. He could also just be wrong, even as Satoshi! :P

Then we have the techcrunch comment from early 2014 by Louis Kleiman asking for any info regarding his sons involvement in Bitcoin (a little less than a year after he died). [6]

Now suddenly some people seem eager to assert that in fact Kleiman was Satoshi, not Wright, but I think that's mainly driven by the fact that they don't like the idea of Wright being Satoshi. Maybe they both were SN (or neither), but with the information we currently have, I think we can assume that academically, Wright is more likely the bigger influence of the two. But that's just my opinion at this point.

[bitcoin !CASHyfZK6k No.11653966]

The tweets that were linked are also not indicative of him being a fraud, at least not to me.

Small experiment: Assume Satoshi is a collectively despised character in the bitcoin community (e.g. he did create bitcoin, but tried to hide malicous code). Would your opinion about Wright being Satoshi change? Try and be honest!

https://connectonline.asic.gov.au/RegistrySearch/faces/landing/panelSearch.jspx?searchType=OrgAndBusNm&searchText=149732365&_adf.ctrl-state=6b34p65q6_4

http://ausregistry.com.au/whois -> cloudcroft.com.au

http://www.top500.org/system/178468

http://i.imgur.com/vocZ7UP.png

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3w027x/dr_craig_steven_wright_alleged_satoshi_by_wired/cxsh09v

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/10/bitcoin-wins-best-technology-achievement-but-satoshi-doesnt-show/

[Anonymous No.11653973]

>>11653960
Close the tab satoshi, nobody really cares about you anymore

[Anonymous No.11653983]

>>11653973

[bitcoin !CASHyfZK6k No.11654001]

"I am a bit of an academic junkie and go from degree to degree as a sort of hobby, so this all adds to the level of being over-qualified for most things," he once said, according to Business Insider.

That certainly seems to be the case when considering his long and varied career.

Most of it has been focused on information technology for a wide array of companies, including the Australian Securities Exchange and Centre for Strategic Cyberspace and Security Science. Wright was appointed as the Asia Pacific Director of Global Institute for Cyber Security Research, according to a 2003 press release from Charles Sturt University. There he would "establish similar relationships with regional intelligence agencies, governments and security vendors to those that GICSR have in place with the NSA, FBI, DHS, NASA and NIST in the USA ... to assist government, industry and security vendors to be much more aligned to the cyber threats posed ... [by] groups that pose a direct and growing threat to National Security through economic impact".

In 2007, he became the first person in the world to earn certification in Compliance and Audits from Global Assurance Information Certification (GIAC). The certification had been around since 2003, and only 11 people had even completed the exam, which reportedly requires 36 hours of testing, by the time Wright passed it, ComputerWorld reported.

But his interests seem far more varied than his work experience suggests.

The dissertation for which the he earned his PhD was titled "Gnarled roots of a creation theory," and he's been a trustee for the Uniting Church since 2007, Business Insider reported.

[Anonymous No.11654082]

>>11653960
>>11653966
>>11654001
I want to believe. I want so desperately for BTC's reign to finally end this year. It's been a slow painful death for that centralized dinosaur coin. Then it'll be time for the real tech to step up and finally increase rate of adoption.