Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia
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He looks like a douche.
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Soon after Mr Wright went public, Gavin Andresen, chief scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, published a blog backing his claim.
And soon after, his access to the repo was suspended, because it is believed he was hacked.
admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia
Regardless of whether his claim is true, how would it help him in this situation? Does he want the public opinion to protect him?
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@Adynathos I honestly don't know. The article is big on sequences of events, and hazy on causation.
For example, a couple media outlets "exposed" him as a possible inventor, and shortly afterward the Australian tax agency raided his house. Was there a causal link there? Article doesn't say.
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@Adynathos said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
And soon after, his access to the repo was suspended, because it is believed he was hacked.
Probably. Wright's "cryptographic claim" was nonsense.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4hflr3/craig_wrights_signature_is_worthless/
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@Adynathos said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
And soon after, his access to the repo was suspended, because it is believed he was hacked.
According to that twitter thread, he is apparently not an active member of the dev team, either. "Chief Scientist"?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11610101
OH SHIT Nikcub from Hacker News doesn't believe it for ONE MINUTE it's all an ELABORATE RUSE also did you hear about having enough gold fringe on a flag makes it an admiralty flag and if the government spells your names in all-caps it's referring to a proxy of you and not actually you?!
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People on twitter have been yelling all day how he's a cheat and a liar. Probably just some random idiot's publicity stunt.
Also, if he IS the author of bitcoin, it would have been smarter to step out a few years ago, when bitcoin was in an upswing, than now, when the entire ecosystem is falling apart.
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@cartman82 At the moment, I assume BBC News is more reputable than "random jerkwad on Hacker News or Twitter" but who knows. God knows journalists don't do their jobs anymore.
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@blakeyrat said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
@cartman82 At the moment, I assume BBC News is more reputable than "random jerkwad on Hacker News or Twitter" but who knows. God knows journalists don't do their jobs anymore.
Frankly, I'll take the word of a well known security tweeterer over what passes for journalists nowadays any day of the week.
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@blakeyrat said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
@cartman82 At the moment, I assume BBC News is more reputable than "random jerkwad on Hacker News or Twitter" but who knows. God knows journalists don't do their jobs anymore.
I normally wouldn't link to Reddit, but that's the first source that pointed out that the shell script calling openssl to 'verify the signature' really verifies $signiture instead of the command-line argument $signature. The technical evidence seems fairly clear-cut to me. It's in Wright's post.
It's an advance fee fraud being perpetrated by someone in dire financial straits (tax investigation) who admittedly has huge cajones.
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@heterodox said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
who admittedly has huge cajones.
Are his boxes really noteworthy?
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@Captain said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
Are his boxes really noteworthy?
I am to Spanish what @accalia is to English (ilu, accalia).
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idiot
douche
That's an odd amount of hate for a person whose only crime was developing a cryptographic system.
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@anonymous234 said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
odd amount of hate
From blakey? YMBNH
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@anonymous234 said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
That's an odd amount of hate for a person whose only crime was developing a cryptographic system.
A douche-y idiot would say that.
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@blakeyrat said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
@anonymous234 said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
That's an odd amount of hate for a person whose only crime was developing a cryptographic system.
A douche-y idiot would say that.
Not true, or you would have.
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Girls, girls. You're both very pretty.
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@heterodox said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
You're both very pretty.
I vehemently disagree with this statement in every conceivable fashion.
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@Fox said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
@heterodox said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
You're both very pretty.
I vehemently disagree with this statement in every conceivable fashion.
The cosmetics and fashion industry aren't enough? Now you're foisting your beauty-norms on me? Check your privilege.
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@Captain said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
Now you're foisting your beauty-norms on me?
My beauty norms are neither normal, common, or supported by the fashion and cosmetics industries. Hell, they're not even consistent. Or constant. I wouldn't wish this mess of personal preferences on you. It might be funny to watch, say, @Polygeekery try to figure out what he wants if he had my beauty norms, but you haven't pissed me off nearly enough for that.
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@Fox said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
t might be funny to watch, say, @Polygeekery try to figure out what he wants if he had my beauty norms
If I ever found out I shared much more than a species with you, I would seriously rethink my life choices.
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Children, please. You're going to make Blakey ragequit.
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@heterodox ...I mean, that's basically a fact of life around here.
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@heterodox said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
You're going to make Blakey ragequit.
No, he wouldn't give us the satisfaction, or so he claims.
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@FrostCat said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
No, he wouldn't give us the satisfaction, or so he claims.
There really is only one way to find out. We just need to push him harder.
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@Polygeekery said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
We just need to push him harder.
Meh, once you learn not to molly guard your buttons so he can't push 'em, he's much less irritating.
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@blakeyrat said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
God knows journalists don't do their jobs anymore.
Quite so.
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Isnt that just like some privileged cis male in the tech industry... To appropriate an Asian name. He probably jerks off to schoolgirl porn with Pocky stuffed up his ass.
#Yellowface
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He cannot be an idiot.
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@dse he can, and he also isn't the inventor of BitCoin.
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@ben_lubar Ok then, the article's title is wrong like you would expect from typical blakeyrants. Inventor of BitCoin cannot be an idiot.
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@dse to be fair, BBC got it wrong as well.
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@ben_lubar said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
BBC got it wrong as well.
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@anonymous234 said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
whose only crime was developing a cryptographic system.
He apparently also tried dodging taxes in Australia according to the title of this topic!
Filed Under: I am ignoring all the "It's not him" posts for this joke!
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Typical patent troll behavior.
"I had the idea in a dream I had where a fart woke me up. Therefore it's my IP."
@Adynathos said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
Regardless of whether his claim is true, how would it help him in this situation? Does he want the public opinion to protect him?
Has anyone ever had the need to benefit from claiming they figured something out?
Al Gore invented the internet, remember?
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@xaade said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
Al Gore invented the internet, remember?
Goddamnit, do not make me defend Manbearpig by explaining how what he said technically wasn't untrue.
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@dse said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
Ok then, the article's title is wrong like you would expect from typical blakeyr
I still trust the BBC a hell of a lot more than any of you idiots.
You find me a retraction from the BBC and I'll believe you.
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@dse said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
He cannot be an idiot.
Have you ever met any H. saps before? We're all idiots.
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@dse Well, then, if it is wrong, it would quite the cock-up, wouldn't it?
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@ScholRLEA said in Idiot who invented BitCoin admits to it because he's under investigation for dodging taxes in Australia:
@dse Well, then, if it is wrong, it would quite the cock-up, wouldn't it?
It would be a big black cock-up.
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Ok so.
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@blakeyrat Color me astonished.
Fool me once etc