LOL. Good catch. Just for clarification of why it appears to be a lie.
Craig Wright, from his most recent
blog entry:
When I started the Bitcoin network, the Bitcoin-Qt client was designed to both mine and act as a wallet. As such, it was far from perfect as the alpha software, but many of the key peer aspects of cash such as in the form of IP-to-IP transactions that have been removed form an essential part in making it a cash system.
Gavin announcing the release of the QT wallet, more than 2.5 years later:
So the plan is for the next release of bitcoin to switch from the wxWidgets GUI we have now to the vastly nicer QT GUI that John Smith created.
I spent some time yesterday compiling Qt and bitcoin-qt, and some time this morning doing a very quick code review (executive summary: looks great!).
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And the hits keep on a comin' ...