1/15 Some have asked me: "Why do you assume that Craig S. Wright (CSW) invented Bitcoin?". First of all: I am an independent third party (I'll skip my personal background). I've heard a little bit about CSW and BSV in advance, but my deep dive started shortly after 20. Sep 2021.
2/15 Realizing that smart contracts run natively on BSV with instant confirmation (<1s), it aroused my interest. I've now spent at least 250 hours on reading documents and watching videos. It was better than reading a crime novel and maybe this knowledge will be worthwhile.
3/15 To assess this properly, we have to consider different categories of evidence: A) proof of key possession, B) witness statements, C) proof of knowledge & proof of work. There are many other areas of evidence, but I will only cover the most important ones for now.
4/15 A) Proof of key possession: There was no public proof so far. Neither CSW nor any other entity signed with an address that is connected to Satoshi. We neither have a public proof nor disproof in this regard.
5/15 B) Witness statements: Following witnesses said that CSW signed messages with the addresses associated with either block 9 or block 1 (or both):
@gavinandresen @jonmatonis Stefan Matthews and @CalvinAyre. The statements of Gavin Andresen are under oath and thus valuable.
6/15 Opponents like @CoinDesk twist Gavin Andresens statements and are thus outright lying about what Gavin Andresen really said. (For those who don't know Gavin: He was picked by Satoshi as the software maintainer of the Bitcoin code in 2010/11 when Satoshi left)
7/15 Further witnesses with first hand knowledge that CSW invented Bitcoin: Ian Grigg, Joseph VaughnPerling, Uyen Nguyen, Donald Lynam, Ramona Ang/Watts, Lisa N. Edwards, River and Danielle De Morgan. The latter five are family. Donald Lynam and Ramona Watts testified under oath.
8/15 C) Proof of knowledge and proof of work: Having knowledge about Bitcoin which only the inventor might have and being able to make use of the complete protocol as it was designed for. CSW presented many theories which most laughed about. But we can now see that most was true.
9/15 i) Turing completeness: He mentioned that Bitcoin is Turing complete. Many disagreed, but it seems that Bitcoins Turing completeness was proven by now. ii) Smart contracts run natively on BitcoinSV. When I first realized this I thought "WTF?". Are you kidding me?
10/15 This must be some scam? - It is not. The smart contracts are coded in Script, a low-level programming language which was implemented in the very first Bitcoin versions. Coding in Script is hard, thus Xiaohui Lui created Scrypt, a high-level programming language similar to
11/15 Solidity and Javascript. You can code in Scrypt and decompile it to Script to run a smart contract on BSV. Examples of dApps running on BSV include: a DEX (AMM) @tswap_io, social media onchain Twitter @twetchapp, a game CryptoFights and other stuff:metastore.app
MetaStore.app - Search all Bitcoin apps on the free blockchain store that anyone can contribute to.
12/15 iii) blocksize: Satoshi Nakamoto was a big blocker. He mentioned Bitcoin can scale more than VISA with daily transactions of more than 100GB (divided by 144, this equals to 700mb blocks). If Bitcoin can scale this much onchain, there's no reason for other solutions.
13/15 Conclusion: We still have no proof of keys. What we have are more than ten witnesses with first hand knowledge who put their reputation at risk. But the most important proof are smart contracts on Bitcoin using the original code. Either Craig Wright invented Bitcoin or he
14/15 is the only surviving core member of Satoshi. In contrast, BTC now is merely a shadow of what Bitcoin was meant to be. One phrase that still impresses me is CSW saying in 2014: "Bitcoin is basically the future of everything. I'm not talking money, I'm talking everything."
15/15 My recommendation: Do some research, read more than the headlines and think about why things might have happened this way. Also: If you don't want to invest time, a position as small as 0.25% of a crypto portfolio is a sufficent hedge for a possible black swan event.
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