You’ll never get me to say anything bad about the guy who uncovered the full extent of the Theranos con. In this time of Passover, had John Carreyrou done nothing but write Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup and the Wall Street Journal articles that preceded it, it would have been enough for us. But Carreyrou’s assertion today in the New York Times that he’s solved the mystery of Satoshi and it’s Adam Back … we don’t think so. Carreyou begins his million-word Times article describing how he had long been obsessed with solving Bitcoin’s original riddle – the identity of its inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto. By…
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Weekly Bitcoin Review
Big dips in the market and Satoshi Nakamoto Trial
The trial for Bitcoin On Monday, Craig Wright, who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, won in trial against the estate of a deceased former business partner. David Kleiman was a previous business associate and close personal friend of the Australian computer scientist who claims to hold a massive fortune of 1.1 million Bitcoin. Ira Kleiman, brother of David Kleiman, was the one to file the lawsuit. Ira claims that his brother and Wright created Bitcoin through a co-partnership in the suit. It is additionally claimed that the Kleiman estate is entitled to half of that 1.1 million Bitcoin, which is worth over 50 billion dollars. Kleiman…
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Modern Consensus 100 Most Influential: Who got it right and who got it wrong
The good guesses, the triumphs, the screw-ups and the downright disasters of 2020
In an industry as young and volatile as crypto, and especially with all the money sloshing around in it, the triumphs and tragedies—or at least successes and screw-up—can be be enlightening and sometimes funny. It’s also a good preview to The Modern Consensus 100 Most Influential People in Crypto 2021, which went live today.
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Bitcoin.org says Wright is wrong, refuses to delete ‘his’ Bitcoin Whitepaper
Self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Wright’s copyright claim to own the Bitcoin Whitepaper led to the website taunting him to cryptographically prove that he is the real Bitcoin creator
Lawyers representing the Australian nChain chief scientist have demanded that Bitcoin.org and BitcoinCore.org take down their copies of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper—claiming that this amounts to copyright infringement. But in a blistering blog post, Bitcoin.org said it was having none of it—and declared that it was refusing to unpublish the whitepaper because “these claims are without merit.”
