The danger is that ... he can destabilize the market by making his claims to people who never used Bitcoin at all
You seem driven by illogical emotion. How can anything Craig says to nocoiners have any destabilizing effect whatsoever upon the (presumably Bitcoin) market? By definition, nocoiners have no effect upon the Bitcoin market whatsoever.
where we can all be informed and vent our hate at his antics.
Another illogical emotional outburst?
As I’ve stated before.. it became very obvious to me when he told me he built smart contracts in to the chain from day 1, a direct contradiction to satoshi himself in this thread (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=750.msg8140#msg8140)... Though Satoshi does not mention smart contacts by name., Nick Szabo stated to me that’s exactly what he believes Satoshi ( or maybe himself) was referring to.
Funny interpretation. So satoshi provides a description of a smart contract as a simple example of the types of things that can be done on Bitcoin, and you take that as proof that satoshi is stating he has never built smart contracts?
And WTF does hearsay about what you claim Szabo said have to do with anything germane?
Satoshi would never create a rival technology to Bitcoin and have the
nerve to call it Bitcoin SV.
OTOH, the _technology_ which BSV embodies is much closer to what satoshi bequeathed unto us as compared to the technology which BTC embodies. As such, it is BTC which is arguably the 'rival technology'.
Wright’s theft of Satoshi’s identity is factually false,
For this to be true, it would require
facts not yet entered into evidence. Sure, you have a mountain of circumstantial evidence, but from a logical standpoint, not conclusive.
Meanwhile, they are abysmally failing to even keep their fraudulently misnamed altcoin running on a technical level.
Other than, you know, the fact that it is humming right along, totally unaffected by your FUDspread.
Fascinating. Clicking that link finds the following:
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
https://medium.com/@craig_10243/ccbe22f2637e
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Sorry.
This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.
What could this mean? Is the Wayback Machine
not a bulletproof historical record after all?
Yes, such a claim, should your characterization be accurate, is absurd on its face. I'm a bit weirded out by how Wayback is treating it, however.
If, tomorrow, I were to claim that Faketoshi “verified” a signature for me (!) on the same basis as his “verification” for Gavin, then that would leave only two realistic possibilities: Either (1) I am maliciously lying with the intent to support Faketoshi in a scam, or (2) Bitcoin Core developer and technical forum moderator Andrew Chow is himself so incompetent that he said the foregoing about someone who doesn’t even know how properly to verify a digital signature.
Your set of possibilities omits a third possibility. And that would be that "faketoshi" actually did verify a signature for you. You evidently believe this to be "unrealistic". However, the very framing of the question in this manner precludes the scant -- though actually real -- possibility.
You wield your supposed razor as would a religious zealot.
I fail to see how Gilder's being convinced that Gavin is convinced says anything about the morality of Gavin's claim.
I think the big danger there is when people get obsessed with knowing “THE TRUTH” about some real or imagined secret, and then they wind up chasing phantoms made of their own confirmation biases.
Haha. No truer words have been spoken. Yet I wonder how aware of self is the speaker?
The most important facts about Gavin Andresen are that he abused his reputation to give Faketoshi instant credibility in the mass media, and also that he supported XT and BCH fork attacks on Bitcoin (and also that he mishandled the “Bitcoin Foundation”, and also...). These are easily verifiable facts—verifiable without fine parsing of minute details. It is unnecessary to know why he did it, to assess the damage of what he did. The “why” is an interesting question in its own right—but the “what” is the important part, and there are no questions there.
Well, no questions other than whether or not such was "abuse", or if indeed such were "attacks". These are things that are subjective, and only meaningful from a given perspective.
the only good thing i can say about blockstream is that adam back has stopped his wright-esq PR campaign of saying he (A.B) invented bitcoin due to "hashcash" algo..
Yeah, right: Because Wright is cited in the paper in which Satoshi first described Bitcoin to the world, and Dr. Back claimed to have invented something other than Hashcash. A perfect “mirror”, that!
Perhaps you are forgetting Back's public claim that hashcash was "pretty much Bitcoin minus the deflationary aspect". Note that this is not an actual quote, and may be somewhat inaccurate, but the claim was indeed that he invented hashcash, which was
pretty much Bitcoin minus one aspect.
edit: found it:

Not that this has anything to do with Anastasia, but we might as well try to keep things accurate here.