In a recent blog post, self proclaimed creator of bitcoin Craig Wright aka Faketoshi has come out and said he never posted on the bitcointalk forum, and all the hundreds of posts done by the 'satoshi' username were not done by the creator of bitcoin.https://ift.tt/3c1qiLH is absolutely hilarious given the fact that if he was Satoshi he , we did chose to say something about it now 10 years later, and not earlier, especially in the 1 year while someone else was posing as him and he was still actively making builds and doing defect fixes.The satoshi user on the forum had real intimate knowledge of the code & design, was participating in builds, community conversations etc, I'm sure there were plenty of private messages as well. There was no doubt at the time that the satoshi username wasn't the creator of bitcoin.To retort his comment about waybackmachine hiding satoshis post history, it does the same for all other users if you change the user number. It does however show post history if you append the &start=0 to it, all users started getting archived in 2014, eg:https://ift.tt/2XidM6p add to the hilarity, as recently as 7 days before his latest claim, he quotes the supposed 'fake' satoshi bitcointalk posts in his own blog posts in the notes section at the bottomhttps://craigwright.net/blog/bitcoin-blockchain-tech/satoshi-and-the-byzantine-generals/Finally, in my little investigations into this matter, I came across an archived version of the first 3 topics created on bitcointalk, in pdf format as they were part of the restricted staff forum. They have no real revealing or meaningful information in them, so I find no reason for them to be edited (timestamps date back to 2012)https://ift.tt/2RkBKdj the second thread, satoshi makes the following harmless statement:I have to get the number of posts up over 20 so the topic will have multiple pages, so here goes with a bunch of blank posts.I found the use of the phrase 'here goes' in the context of creating posts interesting/unusual.After doing some more digging, I then noticed a similar phrasing in a similar context of creating content in an old blog post from Nick Szabo on his blog:https://ift.tt/2RkBKKl I should take up Twitter, but I already have this blog, and even my short takes tend to go a bit over 140 characters. So here goes:
Submitted April 08, 2020 at 11:50AM
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