On February 8, 2019, Craig Wright wrote on his personal blog a series of posts worthy of being translated into a movie. In these posts, he tells a story of mysteries, human trafficking and covert operations in which he played an important role. Events that he claims to have influenced him to create Bitcoin (or BSV, the original Bitcoin created in 2009… we don’t say it, he says it).
The “Bitcoin Thriller”
In that story (composed of a Post titled “Careful What You Wish For” and its sequel, “Story of Bitcoin Continued” ), Craig Wright gives us a virtual tour from Australia and London to other countries like Venezuela, with a stop in Colombia, where he had a job with the DAS (the equivalent of the MI5, the Mossad or the CIA), as an “agent of influence”. Once his crusade against crime was over, he returned to civilization, only to find out the terrible news that criminals like Ross Ulbricht were using Bitcoin.
These events influenced his decision to chose the alias of “Prof Faustus” as his bargain to stop what he saw wrong with Bitcoin. He explains that being Satoshi Nakamoto, he decided to disappear to “move onto other things,” Because he had to work on fighting the evil within the ecosystem to redeem his guilt.
He also explained that he is not going to prove that he is Satoshi Nakamoto because “It is a form of information asymmetry that (he) desire(s) to preserve.”
Wikileaks: Craig Wright is a Serial Fabricator Trying to Raise Money
After Mr. Wright’s story was published, Wikileaks shared the information in a somewhat unusual way that was certainly not to Craig’s liking. In a first tweet, WikiLeaks calls Wright a “Serial Fabricator” who tries to raise money to escape prosecution and keep his business afloat.
Likewise, in a subsequent tweet, they explain that on several occasions Craig’s lies have come to light. They call Craig a “proven serial forger of documents” emphasizing that the WikiLeaks team has been able to verify these accusations.
In this second tweet they added a link to the GitHub page “Cult of Craig” which is dedicated to uploading evidence of Craig Wright’s various lies, ranging from severe things like failing to sign the genesis block with private keys and altering old posts to deceive the community, to trivial stuff like confusing the term bit with the term byte.
Craig Wright: WikiLeaks is a Fake News Website Run by a Rapist
As expected, Craig Wright was not happy with WikiLeak’s accusations, and instead of proving the falsehood of said arguments, he accused the site of promoting fake news and being founded by a rapist. Of course, he could not miss the chance to call the staff working at WikiLeaks as a bunch of fools:
One thing he said was true, Silkroad adopted Bitcoin without understanding the fact that Bitcoin an immutable chain of digital signatures is actually anti criminal. That’s the ironic part that brings the end of major Silkroad operations using Bitcoin. US marshals sized a ton of Bitcoin and Tim Drapper was one of the lucky few to have bought a ton for cheap. This is verifiable history, it is not myth.
But pirates and criminals out in the fringes aren’t going to go away. They want a better way to get around the civilized laws. It’s the same deal with Iran going around US sanctions. If you as much as look at what BTC core developers are trying to do you would have linked the two together.
First of all, Bitcoin can’t scale is absolutely false even a seven year old knows that Block size can scale, matter of fact, the Bitcoin white paper section 6 incentives clearly stated what the coin reward purpose was and how miners will transition to user fees. That’s the reason why you have a diminishing system.
Secondly, by limiting block size to 1 MB and added Segregated witness or Segwit, what they did was basically allowing transactions to be witnesses by a third party. The Bitcoin design was first hand witness, write once, and keep forever immutable. In order for lightning to happen, this rule must change thus Segwit allows transactions to be off loaded to a side chain. Problem with his is that Bitcoin is no longer a witness, it no longer can validate first hand all transactions are valid and record an immutable record. Bitcoin got turned into a distributed spreadsheet that simply records whatever lightning network tells it to.
So why? Why not simply scale up on chain? Answer is clear, with LN core devs wanted to and anonymity, with lightning, you no longer have the exact details of every transactions. Instead, when the channel opens you could do thousands of transactions but when it close, it broadcast a a single transaction since on Chain the block size is still only 1 MB, no way to record the full details of all transactions that happens off chain.
What core is trying to do is corrupt Bitcoin the immutable evidence on chain to allow untraceable tx off chain. This turns bitcoin into an system that promote dishonesty because if you can do something and nobody can see or trace it, it encourages crime. Simple logic, Bitcoin was poison to criminals, but criminals are trying to bend Bitcoin to their will.
Bitcoin is an honest system for all of human beings on earth, it is too important to be corrupted.