Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
"Faketoshi trial day 7 notes...
Has any court ever asked him how he managed to "sign" a message for Gavin from the fourth block's address, but now says he doesn't have the key as it's "held" by a bonded courier?
But why would they? The argument between both sides in this circus is whether Faketoshi is 100% Satoshi or 50% Satoshi. Both sides would gladly attribute 22M BTC to Faketoshi if they could.
BSv's law firm already opened up their cards and showed why they need this 50% or 100% judgement in their formal letters before action sent to all of the devs:
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10. In accordance with their fiduciary duties, each of the Developers is obliged to:
a. Provide access and control to TTL of the BTC in the Addresses, which it owns
but cannot access or control due to the hack/theft.
b. Take all reasonable steps to ensure that TTL has access to and control of the
BTC in the Addresses.
c. Take all reasonable steps to ensure that effect is not given to the fraud, by
ensuring that the BTC in the Addresses cannot be dealt with by anyone other
than TTL (including those who have misappropriated the private keys or
otherwise wrongly have access to the private keys).
https://www.ontier.net/ia/a1letter-before-action-from-ttl.pdfa. Provide access and control to TTL of the BTC in the Addresses, which it owns
but cannot access or control due to the hack/theft.
b. Take all reasonable steps to ensure that TTL has access to and control of the
BTC in the Addresses.
c. Take all reasonable steps to ensure that effect is not given to the fraud, by
ensuring that the BTC in the Addresses cannot be dealt with by anyone other
than TTL (including those who have misappropriated the private keys or
otherwise wrongly have access to the private keys).
If you still have any doubts, here's the statement directly from Faketoshi:
https://twitter.com/MyLegacyKit/status/1457437100631105536
I found it helpful to stop using my logic while trying to analyze this case, (like why would you even need a supercomputer to mine on a testnet???) and just realize that the true answer to everything in this case is
