Re: Hoaxtoshi aka Craig Wright busted - collection of quality research posts
Can someone explain how he signed the 'Satre' quote WITHOUT having to break SHA256 (finding a collision) ?
It's pretty important, as if he did do that, Bitcoin is broken.
It's pretty important, as if he did do that, Bitcoin is broken.
He never used the hash of any Sartre quote (that was just misdirection) - the double hash that he used was simply that used in Satoshi's tx along with the signature that was used in the tx.
(basically he just copied and pasted from the blockchain then put together an elaborate pretense that he had somehow managed to sign something else using a private key known to belong to Satoshi)
Even the silly BBC report has been corrected once they finally worked out that they had been tricked.
Oh.. I see.. thanks.
How can 'big boys' like Gavin and Matonis have fallen for this.. !? That shows very poor skills..
( ..too poor if you ask me.. ) Maybe he did show Gavin and Matonis something 'cool', Gavin said he saw something signed with the Genesis key, but for some reason couldn't share.. hmmm..
There is more to this story yet.. me thinks..
Has Gavin re-responded ?