And yet, as we are today Gavin has still never fully retracted his endorsement. He left it at an 'I'm not sure what happened, maybe I was fooled. It doesn't matter anyways'-- something which wright's promoters continues to use to promote wright's legitimacy.
As far as I know, this
blog entry of his from 2016 was his last formal comment on the issue:
Now that six months have gone past, Im being asked if I still think Craig Wright was Satoshi.
I think there are two possibilities.
Either he was Satoshi, but really wants the world to think he isnt, so he created an impossible-to-untangle web of truths, half-truths and lies. And ruined his reputation in the process.
If he was Satoshi, we should respect his wish to remain anonymous, and ignore him.
The other possibility is he is a master scammer/fraudster who managed to trick some pretty smart people over a period of several years.
In which case everybody except the victims of his fraud and law enforcement working on behalf of those victims should ignore him.
So, either he was or he wasnt. In either case, we should ignore him. I regret ever getting involved in the who was Satoshi game, and am going to spend my time on more fun and productive pursuits.
So Gavin believes there's an equal chance that Craig is a "master scammer." The narrative that he completely believes Wright is Satoshi has been bogus since before BSV was even an idea. Either way, he clearly says Wright should be ignored. You never see BSVers talk about this blog entry when they talk about Gavin, its always a YouTube clip of an interview he gave _before_ he wrote this post.