Though it's really hard to overcome Gavin's continued unwillingness to retract his endorsement-- I think doing so requires enough of everyone else to sign on to make it clear that he's alone (or close to it).
Has anyone tried authoring an open letter to Gavin, requesting that he makes a revised statement? And then members of the community could sign it. I'd imagine we'd get quite a few signatories. That would be a start, at least.
Cripes, after bitcoincleanup.com, now I need to register gavinandressenview.com to make a petition asking Gavin to revise his statement
(Just kidding, I don't think I'll do such a thing).Gavin's statement is meaningless. Bitcoin is not about trusting that Gavin was able to verify satoshi's signature. It's about being able to verify it for ourselves. Gavin was a great influence on Bitcoin and if people like him and Roger weren't around early on, I have no doubt that Bitcoin would not be a success today (or at least nowhere near what it has become). Wanting him to do a retraction is foolish. His opinion literally doesn't matter. If everyone can't verify who satoshi is on their own, then an individual's statement means nothing. Anyone who's been in Bitcoin long enough knows this, so it's odd reading people want a retraction. It literally would mean nothing.