The Faketoshi Fifteen (Times Two)
Craig Wright’s most epic lies, frauds and forgeries
2013 — 2020
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Artwork by @BitcoinMemeHub
Written by Arthur van Pelt
“more than enough evidence in public”
Today, September 30, 2020, is the start of the next BSV scam conference of
CoinGeek, BSV’s media vehicle. Today is also the day that we learned about
the latest legal slap in the face of Craig Wright.
Sources:
https://twitter.com/hodlonaut/status/1311272694554546176
https://twitter.com/hascendp6/status/1311281553138429952
Congratulations, hodlonaut!
Anyway, about a week ago, Calvin Ayre, who basically runs and sponsors the
whole of the BSV affinity scam show, advertised for the CoinGeek
conference on Twitter, and doubled down on the false claim that Craig
Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto.
Source: https://twitter.com/CalvinAyre/
Now let’s see about that, Calvin… From the 100s and 100s of known Craig
“Faketoshi” Wright lies, frauds and forgeries, I’m going to take you on a trip
down Faketoshi memory lane in historical Bitcoin order, showcasing about
thirty of the most epic and hilarious ones of them. Let’s go!
Project “BlackNet”
In February 2019, Craig Wright tried to rewrite Bitcoin history in the most
hilarious way the Bitcoin community had seen in several years. While
everyone knows that Satoshi Nakamoto started working on Bitcoin halfway
2007, and first executed the Bitcoin coding part, and only then started
writing the Bitcoin whitepaper last minute, as he explained to Hal Finney on
November 8, 2008…
Source: https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-November/014832.html
… Craig meanwhile tried to imply he already filed a predecessor to the
Bitcoin whitepaper in 2001 no less, at the Australian government. And it was
aptly called “BlackNet”.
Okay… So, what actually happened: BlackNet was a 1993 project by
cypherpunk and crypto anarchist Timothy “Tim” May. Tim passed away on
December 13, 2018. In the days and weeks after, many “In Memoriams” for
Tim were published, and for sure Craig Wright picked up the name BlackNet
from one of them.
But how about the content of this extremely early BlackNet/Bitcoin paper? At
closer inspection of Craig’s screenshots… Oops, number 1.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/apc9c1/craig_wright_caught_lying_again/
And yeah… When asked about Craig Wright and BlackNet, the Australian
government said “nah, didn’t happen”. And there we have oops, number 2.
Source: https://twitter.com/Grinnersaok/status/1126665494205874177
Ready for another oops? Those who paid attention might have noticed that
Craig’s ex-wife Lynn Wright is mentioned as co-author on the BlackNet
paper. Lynn went through a deposition in January 2020 in the Kleiman v
Wright lawsuit, and Ira Kleiman’s counsel did not forget to bring up the
subject when they found another mention of BlackNet in the evidence:
Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6309656/488/17/kleiman-v-wright/
There you go, oops number 3. To summarize, Project “BlackNet” as
predecessor of Bitcoin is debunked. Many, many more debunks to follow…
Fibre to Bagnoo
Craig Wright’s “fibre to Bagnoo” claim dates back to (at least) February 18,
2014 when Craig mentioned to the ATO that “we had that big fibre cabling
put in” to make Bitcoin mining possible in Bagnoo (where Craig owned a cow
shed) from the start of Bitcoin in January 2009.
