4- Using his reputation and background as a respected, honest , trust worthy person

    Wright’s company Cloudcroft had claimed to own two supercomputers, one of which it said was built by computer-maker SGI. But in an email to WIRED, (and as reported earlier by ZDNet) SGI says that “Cloudcroft has never been an SGI customer and SGI has no relationship with Cloudcroft CEO Craig Steven Wright.” The supercomputer-ranking organization Top500, which had listed two of Wright’s computers as some of the fastest in the world—one as high as 15th place earlier this year—declined to comment on how they’d verified Wright’s entries.

    Wright had listed two PhDs on his since-deleted LinkedIn page, one from Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, Australia, in computer science. But that university now tells Forbes that it never gave Wright any PhDs, although it granted him three master’s degrees in related fields: Networking and Systems Administration, Management (Information Technology), and Information Systems Security.

    An analysis of two PGP public keys attributed to Wright but also linked to Satoshi Nakamoto—one in our story and one in Gizmodo’s—show that they were likely created more recently than the documents in which we found them. Vice’s Motherboard site came to that conclusion based on the keys’ length and types of cipher suites they used, compared with another, known public key for Satoshi Nakamoto.