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Craig Wright is a guy who says he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, and who is involved in litigation with the Crypto Open Patent Alliance, which says he isn’t. Here is a post from the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund claiming that several of the documents “on which [Wright] primarily relies in support of his claim to be Satoshi” might be forgeries. The alleged evidence includes “metadata showing the documents that Dr. Wright claims were written in 2008 were edited with software (Grammarly, MathType, OpenOffice.org, Code2Flow) and fonts (Calibri Light and Nirmala UI) that didn’t yet exist,” as well as “metadata showing that Satoshi Nakamoto’s name had been replaced with Wright’s name on the Bitcoin White Paper, by editing it around 2019 using Adobe software.”
I have to say that it would be useful if someone could invent a method of storing electronic information in a permanent, immutable, provably incorruptible way! Of course that wouldn’t be very helpful here, though, unless the person had invented it in 2008.
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