An early Bitcoin miner signed a cryptographic message using 145 Bitcoin addresses with unspent BTC from 2009, describing Craig Steven Wright as a fraud and a liar. The message was shared on May 21, with a list of addresses and their respective signatures, proving that in fact the addresses belong to the person posting the message.
Craig Wright’s credibility has been dealt a significant blow after the addresses he claimed to be his were used to call him a fraud and a liar. This made it clear that he indeed does not own or run the addresses.
Wright had presented the addresses as his holdings during a court trial. The court case was brought by David Kleiman, who seeks to claim half the fortune of the 1.1 BTC that were mined in the early days of Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto.
Addresses previously claimed by Craig Wright among those used by Early bitcoin miner
Wright has attempted on a number of occasions to claim the vast wealth of Satoshi Nakamoto, who is believed to have mined more than one million bitcoins. However, Wright has failed to prove ownership of the vast fortune. An easy way of proving this is by signing a cryptographic message with the private key of a wallet.
As time passes, it becomes clearer that Craig Wright is not Satoshi. He has been accused on numerous occasions for faking documents and deception. He has several times attempted to avoid every time he was ordered to prove ownership of the addresses in court.
A message from Satoshi?
The latest message bears some resemblance with another message back in 2015 that came through Satoshi Nakamoto’s email address. The 2015 message stated “I am not Craig Wright. We are all Satoshi.”
The initial part of the latest message spells out a similar concept to the 2015 message. The latest message is followed with a comment on the disputes that caused BCH to its own blockchain.
An early Bitcoin miner signed a cryptographic message using 145 Bitcoin addresses with unspent BTC from 2009, describing Craig Steven Wright as a fraud and a liar. The message was shared on May 25, with a list of addresses and their respective signatures, proving that in fact the addresses belong to the person posting the message.