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> He invented bitcoin.

Sorry to break it to you, but he didn't.

A claim as profound as that without any substance won't get you very far here.


Tech vague equivalent of people claiming to be Navy SEALs (stolen valor).


> He invented Bitcoin.

No, he didn't. Lol

Ps. If something is hard that can't be explained in a simple way, it's probably also false.

Remember, Satoshi has 1 billion $ . No way to fake that and proving that you are Satoshi is as simple as moving 1 coin :)

Without excuses ofc, which I'm sure he has.


While I have you here, do you know when Wright first met with Andresen? Andresen has stonewalled developers asking for clarification about his history and arrangements with Wright and there have been conflicting claims about when they first started working with each other.


It will be better for both you and him if you stop enabling his continued lying and fraud. His actions, which are you are benefiting from and enabling, are hurting a lot of people.

He's very lucky to have family that care about him to defend him like you are... but defending someone who is doing wrong isn't doing them or the world any favors.

He's made the claim to have purchased Bitcoin.org in public before and it was shown that his 'evidence' was fake-- just a recently created screenshot of a public webpage that anyone could load: https://twitter.com/Mike__V_/status/1116725165168177152

> He did not commit tax fraud,

That isn't what the Australian tax office concluded. For example, he was fined 1.8 million dollars for backdating invoices: https://web.archive.org/web/20180413215502/https://www.scrib...

> in his life there are problems that cannot be explained by conventional means

They are well explained by an addiction to dishonesty. Numerous administrative judgements and courts have found that Wright consistently lies and incompetently forges evidence to attempt to cover up his lies.

There are straightforward means by which anyone claiming to have created Bitcoin could unambiguously establish the minimal credibility required for their claim to be worth even listening to-- such as producing digital signatures with keys that were previously controlled by Satoshi. Wright has said that he would provide that proof but has instead over and over again only provided forgeries.

His attempts to silence people criticizing him through lawsuit have been effective at shutting some people up, but he keeps losing these lawsuits. Unfortunately, many people are easily silenced through threats and harassment.

Your brother himself has repeatedly tried to silence me by plastering the internet with absurdly untrue malicious false claims about me (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKRFyoyVAAIvc8a?format=png&name=...). He has filed spurious lawsuits against my friends for simply pointing out that that his claimed evidence (like the domain link above) is fraudulent. People representing your brother-- and likely your brother himself-- have threatened to kill me and my family for speaking out against him. Harassment directed and/or inspired by him have chased away numerous people from contributing to Bitcoin. Please stop and consider what you are enabling. Wright is not right.




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