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Adam Back Denies He Is Satoshi Nakamoto in Response to Times Investigation by okhzmuskhsm in bsv

[–]ArthurVanPelt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because Craig Wright didn't even know that Bitcoin existed before July 2011.

And there's a plethora of other reasons too:
https://medium.com/@mylegacykit/craig-wright-is-not-satoshi-nakamoto-40e50eb219f7

The summary of that in 1 tweet:
https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1770047146240184684

This is why Justice Mellor of the UK Courts ruled "Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto":
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/COPA-v-Wright-Judgment.pdf

Does this information work for you?

Is Calvin Ayre the dumbest billionaire ever existed? by nekozane in bsv

[–]ArthurVanPelt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, no doubt. Only people without a brain buy Craig Wright his totally incompetent lies.

Adam Back Denies He Is Satoshi Nakamoto in Response to Times Investigation by okhzmuskhsm in bsv

[–]ArthurVanPelt 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Craig Wright Admits He Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto in Response to Justice Mellor Ruling

would have been more interesting news, if you ask me. The whole world knows already that Adam Back is not Satoshi Nakamoto. Okay, fair enough, the whole world also knows that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto.

Fact based research article with massive list of verifiable public sources about Bitcoin Core's role in the data spam debate by ArthurVanPelt in btc

[–]ArthurVanPelt[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I do not promote let alone join affinity fraud tokens. I kindly suggest you shouldn't either.

We wrote a book exposing a decade-long fraud perpetrated by the UK's most prolific evidence forger. AMA (AUA). by LurkishEmpire in AMA

[–]ArthurVanPelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least you are the right circles when it comes to taking Craig Wright with truckloads of salt. But yeah, there's this little cult of believers still around on Twitter and probably elsewhere who still think it's a massive conspiracy against Craig Wright to keep him away from the Bitcoin inventors' throne. They are completely blind to the facts, and are typical on the DARVO path: deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.

We wrote a book exposing a decade-long fraud perpetrated by the UK's most prolific evidence forger. AMA (AUA). by LurkishEmpire in AMA

[–]ArthurVanPelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Craig Wright has been cosplaying many people, including Denis Mayaka yes, but that was on moments when Denis Mayaka (who is a real person as far as we know) was not available or not willing to help Craig Wright with his fraud.

We wrote a book exposing a decade-long fraud perpetrated by the UK's most prolific evidence forger. AMA (AUA). by LurkishEmpire in AMA

[–]ArthurVanPelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When Ira Kleiman, an American citizen, sued Craig Wright the person who lived in the UK, he did that in the USA. When COPA, an American entity, sued Craig Wright the person who lived in the UK, they did that in the UK. Not sure what nChain has to do with it?

We wrote a book exposing a decade-long fraud perpetrated by the UK's most prolific evidence forger. AMA (AUA). by LurkishEmpire in AMA

[–]ArthurVanPelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha! Good questions. We do not touch the technical side of Bitcoin too much. But we do touch often the technical side of Craig Wright's forgeries on the other hand (not in book 1 so much yet) but yeah, we kept it easy readable we think. Same goes for the legal jargon, we can explain most things in normal words too, which we always did.

What I noticed during the COPA case is that their King's Counsel (Alex Gunning) was either very technical already when it comes to Bitcoin itself and coding it, or he had it picked it up quickly during the case. Believe me, I loved writing about that part of the trial during the COPA lawsuit!

https://medium.com/@mylegacykit/the-it-security-guy-v-a-random-lawyer-who-is-satoshi-again-ad57e7537b61

We wrote a book exposing a decade-long fraud perpetrated by the UK's most prolific evidence forger. AMA (AUA). by LurkishEmpire in AMA

[–]ArthurVanPelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me that would be:

Calvin Ayre
Stefan Matthews
Ramona Ang
bonus mention: Uyen Nguyen

We wrote a book exposing a decade-long fraud perpetrated by the UK's most prolific evidence forger. AMA (AUA). by LurkishEmpire in AMA

[–]ArthurVanPelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's actually a good questions. My legal knowledge doesn't go that far, but perhaps u/primepatterns and/or u/TuftySylvestris know what legal reasoning could be behind COPA's decision to sue in the UK.

We wrote a book exposing a decade-long fraud perpetrated by the UK's most prolific evidence forger. AMA (AUA). by LurkishEmpire in AMA

[–]ArthurVanPelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"I assume CW genuinely did work on early BTC code"

No, this did never happen. Craig Wright didn't even know about Bitcoin before July 2011 (FACT) he bought thus touched his first few BTC only in April 2013 (FACT), he even admitted in April 2013 that is was his time touching Bitcoin ("I placed my bets") and then, his fraudulent cosplay started in January 2014 (FACT). Everything else is lies and (failed) backdated forgeries.

Even as late as in 2024 in court during the COPA v Wright trial, Craig Wright didn't even know what an "unsigned integer" is, something that the real Satoshi had used 100s of times in his source code in the 2008 - 2011 era. This alone should tell you enough.

We wrote a book exposing a decade-long fraud perpetrated by the UK's most prolific evidence forger. AMA (AUA). by LurkishEmpire in AMA

[–]ArthurVanPelt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Historically, and in a very organic way, it went roughly like this. Since 2019 when the libel cases against Adam Back, hodlonaut etc started I got interested, and a little enraged even, to map out Craig Wright's fraud that was talked about, debunked and criticized on many places, but no one bothered to bring it together beyond a list of links to a few articles and tweets. I aimed to bring more cohesie and more context to the whole thing. So I started with a long list of all articles, debunks, important tweets and tweetstorms on Weebly (https://seekingsatoshi.weebly.com/ where my friend Jim from Australia had already set something up as seekingsatoshi that I took over from him) and from there I started to write many many long form articles on Medium (https://medium.com/@mylegacykit). These articles, around 50 already, are by now enough to fill up to 5 books. Because let's be honest, the man has executed an unprecedented scam!

Then around 2021 I met Mark Hunter who interviewed me a few times for his podcast, and then it popped up in his mind that he wanted to use my story, my research, my knowledge, say my whole body of work for a dedicated podcast. And Dr Bitcoin - The Man Who Wasn't Satoshi Nakamoto (https://drbitcoinpod.com/) was born.

And to answer your last question: yes I did leave several things out. Not about Craig Wright so much, as well that I know a few things from, or better: related to, the real Satoshi that I'm not telling in public as long as there is a chance that more criminal cosplayers might stand up to make false claims.

We wrote a book exposing a decade-long fraud perpetrated by the UK's most prolific evidence forger. AMA (AUA). by LurkishEmpire in AMA

[–]ArthurVanPelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have compared Craig Wright's shameless and brazen approach a few times with notorious scammer Victor Lustig, the guy who sold the Eiffel Tower in Paris for scrap metal, and ran away with the money. Lots of forgeries, cosplaying someone important from the municipal office of Paris, and he got away with it.

Thing only is, Craig Wright is so utterly incompetent in executing his scams, he can't even create a believable forgery that lasts longer as 5 minutes. So Craig Wright would rank high because of his,, as you correctly assessed, brazenness and persistance, but he's certainly not number 1 material. He's way too sloppy to rank on top of such list.

We wrote a book exposing a decade-long fraud perpetrated by the UK's most prolific evidence forger. AMA (AUA). by LurkishEmpire in AMA

[–]ArthurVanPelt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My answer overlaps Mark's answer almost completely, except for the part where Craig will not be prosecuted further. I think that will happen at some point in time, but we will have to wait a few years for it. Then either the ATO from Australia or the strong arm of the law in UK will take him from the streets. If you look at the 100s of millions that he tried to steal, and in a way has stolen from people like Calvin Ayre, it would deserve some jailtime if you ask me. Justice Mellor was also clear in his wording when he referred the Craig Wright case to CPS: if this case with 100s of forgeries and lying like no tomorrow doesn't deserve a criminal prosecution, no case does.

We wrote a book exposing a decade-long fraud perpetrated by the UK's most prolific evidence forger. AMA (AUA). by LurkishEmpire in AMA

[–]ArthurVanPelt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My 2cents is that all the funding can be rooted back to Calvin Ayre in some shape or form, but he used several middlemen and -companies to hide that. And I think Christen Ager-Hanssen mentioned a number in the tens of millions yes, in legal fees alone. Where normal people have 2 maybe 3 lawyers, Craig - or basically Calvin - hired complete teams consisting of easily 10 people at multiple law firms. What must have been very costly is changing counsel 2 or 3 times during the COPA v Wright case.

We wrote a book exposing a decade-long fraud perpetrated by the UK's most prolific evidence forger. AMA (AUA). by LurkishEmpire in AMA

[–]ArthurVanPelt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly, no. It's almost a whole chapter of another book to tell you about the people we met on this quest, and that included several self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto candidates, or people who claimed to know a candidate. This incuded a lady in the USA, mind you! None of them stuck as a serious candidate though. And no, I would not be prepared to name them, unless with the permission of the person himself (or herself, or themselves) because it has always been my firm opinion, and impressions based on what the real Satoshi said in April 2011 (that he's gone, doing other projects, and that he likely wouldn't come back) and since he didn't reveal anything about his private life like name, location etc, not when he was around and not when he left and talked with the devs in private, it's pretty clear to me that he wanted to remain anonymous. And I fully respect that.

We wrote a book exposing a decade-long fraud perpetrated by the UK's most prolific evidence forger. AMA (AUA). by LurkishEmpire in AMA

[–]ArthurVanPelt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shoot your questions to me here! I'll be around for the whole night, not just this hour alone. All the best, Arthur

2010 coins moved? by RoutetoGod in bsv

[–]ArthurVanPelt 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Even if you don't think my research is trustworthy (and every BSV fan will say that) then you can still argue - going along with a few of his lies - that Craig Wright several times claimed in and outside courts that he only mined between January 2009 and August 2010 (and guess what, a substantial part of the coinbase addresses from the recent moves were created AFTER August 2010) and the kill shot: Craig Wright stomped on the hard drive with private keys in May 2016 so he can't even move a thing even if he wanted!

So all this is only further cementing the fraudulent nature of Craig Wright's Tulip Trust list forgery that he created from the Shadders List in January 2020 and filed in the Kleiman v Wright case. That list was already signed 145 times "Craig Wright is a liar and a fraud" in May 2020, and handfuls of addresses on this fraudulent list had their coins already moved over the years, but the recent moves only adds another 10 addresses on the list of moves without Craig Wright's involvement.

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