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It is true of course that anyone can fall for a conman. But after said conman had been exposed, if my testimony/blog posts/statements/whatever were being used by said conman in court as evidence to support suing innocent third parties, I would be eager to rescind those posts as soon as possible.
Probably the most shocking thing to me is that in Gavin and Wright's communication, at some point Wright started fire and brimstone-ing about patents or something and Gavin responded with something along the lines of "see when you talk like that it makes people think you're a scammer". WTF, why did Gavin coach him to scam better?? Total facepalm moment there, but I guess Gavin was already committed to the believe that Wright was legit.
I always read that like Gavin trying to convince himself. Like, he still had some small logical part of his brain saying "This obviously isn't how Satoshi would behave", and that manifested in him telling CSW not to behave like that anymore to try to ease Gavin's cognitive dissonance.
Gavin has stated many times that he did not believe CSW was satoshi.
Sources?