Quote from: Brangdon on May 05, 2016, 06:53:47 PM

Quote from: chopstick on May 05, 2016, 04:42:59 PM

apparently the email conversations Craig had with them were extremely convincing. That is something that is extremely difficult to fake - coming off as being the exact same person as they talked to 5 years ago, just as a general feeling.

I don't understand that part. The Satoshi era is before my time, but I have gone back and read some of his old posts here, and he came across to me as someone with a good command of the English language. Where-as Wright comes across as not very articulate in his blog. Does anyone else feel the same way?

I agree.

Satoshi's posts seem open and read clearly.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3;sa=showPosts

Craig Wright's site (https://web.archive.org/web/20160502203753/http://www.drcraigwright.net/posts/) didn't.

Try getting a contextual menu, and you see a dialogue box with terse message reporting, 'Sorry, not sharing images!'
All code snippets are published as images. Perhaps he doesn't like sharing his code easily either - or is he afraid of web-crawlers?
Littered with tacky brochurish images of the man - betraying a narcissistic streak, perhaps.

I suppose these are all matters of taste. And will be excusable to some people.

What is not excusable is his plagiarism mentioned this week on this forum (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1457039.msg14734784#msg14734784).

See here:
https://medium.com/@jprichardson/did-satoshi-steal-my-blog-post-76a68cdda4f3#.t4h9a0m94

And compare:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160502203810/http://www.drcraigwright.net/generating-bitcoin-address/
(from CW's blog published a week or so ago)
and
http://procbits.com/2013/08/27/generating-a-bitcoin-address-with-javascript
(posted by developer JP Richardson nearly three years ago)

Some still say he's Satoshi. They also need to admit that the man is a rogue too.

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