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.
What statement?
I assume this is about the interview in which he
claimed he saw a signed message that proves the troll's claim. The fact that we have to
trust instead of
verify speaks volumes.
What I have seen is
7250BTC worth of signed messages that prove the opposite.
Thing is,
we know to verify and not trust. But con-men are talented at getting joe-public to trust. The average person out there will not know how to verify a signed message. They may not even understand what that means. What they do understand is "
[X] number of people said some skeezy shit-sack is satoshi". The more people who hear that, the more who will believe it because they're willing to form opinions based on trust. Therefore, it's better if we reduce X.
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.
Again, look beyond your own level of understanding and recognise that, while it's meaningless for
us, it's likely not meaningless for the uninitiated. No one reading this right now needs to witness a retraction from Gavin to know the truth. We can see it for ourselves. But countless millions of people around the world do not possess the slightest interest in making an effort to verify anything. People, for the most part, are lazy and/or ignorant. They're completely in the dark and easy to manipulate. They're just going to believe what they hear and not question it.
Craig and his following of demented shitweasels know this and are happy to exploit it. Our unwillingness to confront this issue is making their job easier.