the #faketoshi fraud TIMELINE
I'm following the Bitcoin related news since 2012. So the moment I noticed that Craig Wright popped up in the Bitcoin scene in December 2015, it didn't feel "right". To me, when a person claims to be (part of) Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor(s) of Bitcoin, it should be almost instantly clear if that claim holds any truth beyond any doubt. So I've been following Craig Wright ever since, only to see him fail time after time to prove he's Satoshi Nakamoto. To me, it is absolutely clear that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto.
When in March/April 2019 Craig Wright started to sue Bitcoin community members Adam Back, hodlonaut and Peter McCormack for defamation after they called him out for being a fraud, I felt it was my role to map out all the discrepancies, false claims and forgeries of Craig Wright, and post about this subject on Twitter. Based on several requests, this timeline has been created to gather all my research over the years, mixed with research of my friends in the Bitcoin community. Kudos to everyone who made it to this timeline, you've done a great job! 👍 |
A big, special thanks goes to SeekingSatoshi for not only helping me with outstanding research, but also for offering a place to host my timeline. And 🙏 to Bitcoin Meme Hub for creating the header artwork. You guys rock hard. 🤟 |
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The year 2001
General
At the time of writing (September 2019), the most backdated #Faketoshi claim of Craig Wright is about a whitepaper released in 2001.
- Debunk: Craig Wright's Blacknet (predecessor of Bitcoin) whitepaper doesn't exist
- Debunk: Blacknet 2001, my ass
- Debunk: Craig Wright - On plagiarism (tweetstorm)
(contains history of his plagiarisms 2001 - 2019)
General
At the time of writing (September 2019), the most backdated #Faketoshi claim of Craig Wright is about a whitepaper released in 2001.
- Debunk: Craig Wright's Blacknet (predecessor of Bitcoin) whitepaper doesn't exist
- Debunk: Blacknet 2001, my ass
- Debunk: Craig Wright - On plagiarism (tweetstorm)
(contains history of his plagiarisms 2001 - 2019)
The year 2004
General
For the sake of history, Craig was once verdict for contempt of court in a case running from 2003 to 2006. The first verdict was in November 2004. Two appeals in 2005 and 2006 failed.
November
- Info: Filing November 6, 2003
- Info: Verdict November 15, 2004
- Info: Verdict October 27, 2005
- Info: Verdict June 15, 2006
- Info: Bitmex Research - history of Craig's frauds (tweetstorm)
General
For the sake of history, Craig was once verdict for contempt of court in a case running from 2003 to 2006. The first verdict was in November 2004. Two appeals in 2005 and 2006 failed.
November
- Info: Filing November 6, 2003
- Info: Verdict November 15, 2004
- Info: Verdict October 27, 2005
- Info: Verdict June 15, 2006
- Info: Bitmex Research - history of Craig's frauds (tweetstorm)
The year 2006
General
Since at least 2010, Calvin Ayre plays an important role in Craig Wright's life.
- Info: The early history of Calvin Ayre (tweetstorm)
General
Since at least 2010, Calvin Ayre plays an important role in Craig Wright's life.
- Info: The early history of Calvin Ayre (tweetstorm)
The year 2007
General
Satoshi Nakamoto said he started with Bitcoin (code & whitepaper) in 2007. Let's start following Craig Wright more closely from here.
- Info: Craig Wright claims he started with Bitcoin in 1998
- Info: Craig Wright - Unraveling the bullshit (a few tips) (tweetstorm)
- Info: Craig Wright - The key persons (tweetstorm)
General
Satoshi Nakamoto said he started with Bitcoin (code & whitepaper) in 2007. Let's start following Craig Wright more closely from here.
- Info: Craig Wright claims he started with Bitcoin in 1998
- Info: Craig Wright - Unraveling the bullshit (a few tips) (tweetstorm)
- Info: Craig Wright - The key persons (tweetstorm)
The year 2008
General
In this year, the Bitcoin whitepaper was released. And here is where Craig Wright starts ramping up his backdated #Faketoshi story, supported by forgeries. Note that the "His Real Bitcoin Career" tweetstorm will not provide information about the years 2008-2010, as there is currently no evidence that Craig Wright knew about Bitcoin in those years.
- Debunk: Craig Wright - His Real Bitcoin Career (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig Wright - His Bitcoin Fraud Career (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Bitcoin whitepaper vs 2 Craig Wright whitepapers (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Proof of Fibre - Craig Wright's cow ranch Bagnoo (tweetstorm)
March
- Debunk: Craig->Dave "Bit cash, Bitcoin..." email
May
- Debunk: Paper contains "90% overlap with Bitcoin whitepaper"
August
- Debunk: Craig pays for bitcoin.org with creditcard (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig Wright's blog "Cracked, inSecure and Generally Broken" (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig claims he wrote the Bitcoin whitepaper in August 2008 (tweetstorm)
November
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Do. Not. Fuck. With. Hal. Finney (tweetstorm)
General
In this year, the Bitcoin whitepaper was released. And here is where Craig Wright starts ramping up his backdated #Faketoshi story, supported by forgeries. Note that the "His Real Bitcoin Career" tweetstorm will not provide information about the years 2008-2010, as there is currently no evidence that Craig Wright knew about Bitcoin in those years.
- Debunk: Craig Wright - His Real Bitcoin Career (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig Wright - His Bitcoin Fraud Career (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Bitcoin whitepaper vs 2 Craig Wright whitepapers (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Proof of Fibre - Craig Wright's cow ranch Bagnoo (tweetstorm)
March
- Debunk: Craig->Dave "Bit cash, Bitcoin..." email
May
- Debunk: Paper contains "90% overlap with Bitcoin whitepaper"
August
- Debunk: Craig pays for bitcoin.org with creditcard (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig Wright's blog "Cracked, inSecure and Generally Broken" (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig claims he wrote the Bitcoin whitepaper in August 2008 (tweetstorm)
November
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Do. Not. Fuck. With. Hal. Finney (tweetstorm)
The year 2009
General
January 3, 2009 is the date the Bitcoin network started running. Starting in 2014, Craig Wright made several #Faketoshi statements about the early days of Bitcoin, many of them being inconsistent with historical Bitcoin facts.
- Info: All Craig Wright's internet domains 2009-2015
- Debunk: Proof of Nonsense - Craig Wright runs 60+ Bitcoin computers
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Bitmessage Revisited (tweetstorm)
January
- Debunk: Microsoft patch Tuesday ruined the Bitcoin Genesis block
- Debunk: Using Bitcoin-Qt client at the start of the network
- Debunk: Bitcoin was never meant to reuse public keys
- Debunk: SeekingSatoshi's blog post "Proof of [USA] location"
- Debunk: Craig claims Hal Finney came in on January 12, 2009 (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig's backdated blog post "Bitcoin" is written in 2014 (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: History of the backdated blog post "Bitcoin" (Pastebin)
June
- Debunk: The Integyrs fraud
December
- Debunk: Craig Wright's Bitcoin holdings 2009 - 2020
General
January 3, 2009 is the date the Bitcoin network started running. Starting in 2014, Craig Wright made several #Faketoshi statements about the early days of Bitcoin, many of them being inconsistent with historical Bitcoin facts.
- Info: All Craig Wright's internet domains 2009-2015
- Debunk: Proof of Nonsense - Craig Wright runs 60+ Bitcoin computers
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Bitmessage Revisited (tweetstorm)
January
- Debunk: Microsoft patch Tuesday ruined the Bitcoin Genesis block
- Debunk: Using Bitcoin-Qt client at the start of the network
- Debunk: Bitcoin was never meant to reuse public keys
- Debunk: SeekingSatoshi's blog post "Proof of [USA] location"
- Debunk: Craig claims Hal Finney came in on January 12, 2009 (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig's backdated blog post "Bitcoin" is written in 2014 (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: History of the backdated blog post "Bitcoin" (Pastebin)
June
- Debunk: The Integyrs fraud
December
- Debunk: Craig Wright's Bitcoin holdings 2009 - 2020
The year 2010
General
Craig Wright claimed to have had a "son" in 2010 that was mining Bitcoin. Right...
- Debunk: Craig Wright crashed my live stream - Proof of mining son (tweetstorm)
General
Craig Wright claimed to have had a "son" in 2010 that was mining Bitcoin. Right...
- Debunk: Craig Wright crashed my live stream - Proof of mining son (tweetstorm)
The year 2011
General
Craig Wright build his #Faketoshi story in phases, starting second half of 2013 with a 2011-2013 mining/IP contract around dead Dave Kleiman and his company W&K Info Defense Research LLC, in which it was not yet implied that Craig Wright and/or Dave Kleiman were involved with inventing & starting Bitcoin. The latter only started in 2014. All these phases together create a patchwork of backdated claims and - "evidence", supported by several types of digital - and paper forgeries. 2011 can be considered the year of the infamous Tulip Trust. However, 2011 is also the year that Craig, and Calvin Ayre for that matter, learned about Bitcoin for the first time, for real.
- Info: Craig Wright - Up Close & Personal
- Info: Craig Wright - Why is he using "trusts"?
- Info: Hats off to Ira's counsel
- Info: Dave Kleiman his only 4 YouTube videos
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Tulip Trust Revisited (tweetstorm)
March
- Debunk: Craig's 2014 blog post backdated to 2011 with Tulip Trust hint (tweetstorm)
April
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The Bad Ass Bitcoin transactions (tweetstorm)
May
- Debunk: Craig Wright buys 650,000/700,000 BTC (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig Wright never worked for Homeland Security
June
- Debunk: Coingeek (Eli Afram) thinks June 24, 2011 email is genuine
- Debunk: Sam Williams blog "The Tulip Trust is fake"
July
- Debunk: The first, genuine, moments that Craig Wright learned & spoke about Bitcoin
- Debunk: Ditto, in comments section of Craig Wright's article
- Debunk: Comparison between Satoshi & Craig Wright's writing of "Bitcoin"
- Debunk: Satoshi & Craig Wright about Wikileaks
October
- Info: The New Yorker article "The Crypto-Currency - Bitcoin and its mysterious inventor."
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The New Yorker (fun fact) (tweetstorm)
December
- Debunk: The first, genuine, moment that Calvin Ayre learned & spoke about Bitcoin
The year 2012
General
As said, a patchwork of forgeries has been created since 2014 to support the #Faketoshi story. The ones that are supposed to support #Faketoshi activities in 2012 can be found here.
- Debunk: Craig Wright plagiarized Robert Tauger
April
- Info: FBI Report "Bitcoin Virtual Currency: Unique Features Present Distinct Challenges for Deterring Illicit Activity"
October
- Debunk: Uyen Nguyen appointed as COO of 2 empty shelf companies (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The England Shuffle (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: "Tulip Trust" mentioned in emails between Craig Wright & Dave Kleiman
November
- Debunk: About leaving in 2010 and using Bitmessage in 2012
- Debunk: The Bitmessage Forgery
General
As said, a patchwork of forgeries has been created since 2014 to support the #Faketoshi story. The ones that are supposed to support #Faketoshi activities in 2012 can be found here.
- Debunk: Craig Wright plagiarized Robert Tauger
April
- Info: FBI Report "Bitcoin Virtual Currency: Unique Features Present Distinct Challenges for Deterring Illicit Activity"
October
- Debunk: Uyen Nguyen appointed as COO of 2 empty shelf companies (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The England Shuffle (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: "Tulip Trust" mentioned in emails between Craig Wright & Dave Kleiman
November
- Debunk: About leaving in 2010 and using Bitmessage in 2012
- Debunk: The Bitmessage Forgery
The year 2013
General
As noted before, 2013 (second half) is where Craig Wright starts creating a false trail of evidence for his Bitcoin involvement. A must read article by Satoshi Itches about the roots of Craig's false claims & forgeries can be found in April.
- Info: Craig Wright - The Obfuscation Game (tweetstorm)
January
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Timewarping Denariuz shareholders (tweetstorm)
April
- Info: The Coin-Exch fraud
- Debunk: The first, genuine, moment that Craig Wright touched Bitcoin (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Satoshi Itches article "Craig Wright's tangled web - part 1"
- Discussion: Dave Kleiman - Owned Bitcoin?
July
- Debunk: Craig altered a blog post about Dave Kleiman in 2015
August
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The 2013 Court Australia Fraud (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The evolution of Faketoshi
General
As noted before, 2013 (second half) is where Craig Wright starts creating a false trail of evidence for his Bitcoin involvement. A must read article by Satoshi Itches about the roots of Craig's false claims & forgeries can be found in April.
- Info: Craig Wright - The Obfuscation Game (tweetstorm)
January
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Timewarping Denariuz shareholders (tweetstorm)
April
- Info: The Coin-Exch fraud
- Debunk: The first, genuine, moment that Craig Wright touched Bitcoin (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Satoshi Itches article "Craig Wright's tangled web - part 1"
- Discussion: Dave Kleiman - Owned Bitcoin?
July
- Debunk: Craig altered a blog post about Dave Kleiman in 2015
August
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The 2013 Court Australia Fraud (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The evolution of Faketoshi
The year 2014
General
Dave Kleiman died April 26, 2013. After having build on his 2011-2013 mining/IP scheme around (dead) Dave Kleiman in the second half of 2013, Craig contacts the Kleiman family early 2014. Many of the (backdated) 2011-2013 #Faketoshi forgeries have been created in 2014.
- Info: Craig Wright is disgusting
February
- Info: ATO hearings on the 18th and 26th, transcript of the 18th here
- Info: Craig Wright - The most damning 2014 ATO quotes in one Reddit post
- Info: BI article "The World's First Bitcoin-Based Bank"
- Debunk: Craig Wright's changing story about Dave's W&K over the years
(note that W&K was not a completely empty shelf company, as Craig & Dave tried to obtain paid projects from Homeland Security in 2011)
- Debunk: Craig Wright's changing story about mining over the years (tweetstorm)
April
- Debunk: Craig claims to have "significant exposure" on Mt Gox
July
- Info: Craig Wright in video "The Bitcoin Doco"
September
- Info: Wired article "Someone's Threatening to Expose Bitcoin Founder Satoshi Nakamoto"
- Info: CoinTelegraph article "Satoshi Nakamoto's Email Account Hacked"
General
Dave Kleiman died April 26, 2013. After having build on his 2011-2013 mining/IP scheme around (dead) Dave Kleiman in the second half of 2013, Craig contacts the Kleiman family early 2014. Many of the (backdated) 2011-2013 #Faketoshi forgeries have been created in 2014.
- Info: Craig Wright is disgusting
February
- Info: ATO hearings on the 18th and 26th, transcript of the 18th here
- Info: Craig Wright - The most damning 2014 ATO quotes in one Reddit post
- Info: BI article "The World's First Bitcoin-Based Bank"
- Debunk: Craig Wright's changing story about Dave's W&K over the years
(note that W&K was not a completely empty shelf company, as Craig & Dave tried to obtain paid projects from Homeland Security in 2011)
- Debunk: Craig Wright's changing story about mining over the years (tweetstorm)
April
- Debunk: Craig claims to have "significant exposure" on Mt Gox
July
- Info: Craig Wright in video "The Bitcoin Doco"
September
- Info: Wired article "Someone's Threatening to Expose Bitcoin Founder Satoshi Nakamoto"
- Info: CoinTelegraph article "Satoshi Nakamoto's Email Account Hacked"
- The year 2015
General
2015 is the year where Craig Wright starts infiltrating the Bitcoin community. The Hackernoon article describes that process. The apotheosis of the year comes in December, when Craig Wright reveals himself to a global audience, quickly followed by all kinds of theories what might have happened. This is also the point in time that severe scrutiny on Craig Wright's claims start, as "an extraordinary claim asks for extraordinary proof". Up till today, this proof has never been delivered though. Instead, an ever growing list of debunked claims, discrepancies and proven forgeries has been build.
- Info: Hackernoon article "Bitcoin Belle’s CCme: The woman who brought you Craig ‘Satoshi’ Wright strikes again…"
May
- Info: GrantCentral article "Big numbers involved in R&D Tax Incentive"
- Info: Craig Wright's company DeMorgan hints to "Bitcoin research that lasted over 6 years"
June
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Hello World! (and the world said hello back...)
October
- Info: YouTube "All-Star Panel: Ed Moy, Joseph VaughnPerling, Trace Mayer, Nick Szabo, Dr. Craig Wright"
(Craig Wright testing the waters for his #Faketoshi outcoming in December, with rare public appearance of Nick Szabo. Panel lead by Michele Seven (Bitcoin Belle))
December
- Info: Wired article "Is Bitcoin's Creator This Unknown Australian Genuis? Probably Not (Updated April 2019)"
- Info: Gizmodo article "This Aussie Says He And His Friend Invented Bitcoin"
- Info: Gizmodo article "Here's All the Evidence That Craig Wright Invented Bitcoin"
- Info: Gizmodo article "The Mystery of Craig Wright and Bitcoin Isn't Solved Yet"
- Info: CCN article "Text Analysis Confirms Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto"
- Info: BI article "The Australian who may have invented Bitcoin claimed to land $54M in taxpayer-funded rebates"
- Info: BI article "REVEALED: The ATO's $1.7M penalty on a company owned by the Australian 'Bitcoin mastermind'"
- Info: The Guardian article "Who is Craig Wright and how likely is it that he's behind bitcoin?"
- Info: Forbes article "'Probable' Bitcoin Creator Is A Garrulous Government Security Contractor And Is In Legal Trouble"
- Info: Vice article "Satoshi's PGP Keys Are Probably Backdated and Point to a Hoax"
- Info: Hacking Distributed article "How To Spot Satoshi"
- Info: ZDNet article "SGI denies links with alleged bitcoin founder Craig Wright"
- Info: The Verge article "Was the latest Bitcoin revelation actually an extortion scheme?"
- Info: Forbes article "Time To Call A Hoax? Inconsistencies On 'Probable' Bitcoin Creator's PhD And Supercomputers Revealed"
- Info: Wired article "New Clues Suggest Craig Wright, Suspected Bitcoin Creator, May Be A Hoaxer"
- Info: The New Yorker article "The Bizarre Saga of Craig Wright, the Latest “Inventor of Bitcoin”"
- Info: Mashable article "New chase for Bitcoin founder leaves everyone exhausted and no wiser"
- Info: CoinDesk article "‘Satoshi’ Denies Being Wright Amid Doubts Over PGP Data"
- Info: Vox article "Why I'm getting more skeptical of claims that Bitcoin's creator has been unmasked"
- Info: The Conversation article "Have journalists found the inventor of Bitcoin or simply been duped?"
(note that Craig Wright wrote about Bitcoin for the first time in July 2011 on The Conversation website in the comments to his own articles. Now The Conversation is using that evidence against Craig: "We actually have specific evidence that Craig Wright is very unlikely to be Satoshi Nakamoto.")
- Info: Splinter News article "Who is the hacker that outed Craig Wright as the inventor of Bitcoin? Maybe Craig Wright himself."
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The story of Andy Greenberg
General
2015 is the year where Craig Wright starts infiltrating the Bitcoin community. The Hackernoon article describes that process. The apotheosis of the year comes in December, when Craig Wright reveals himself to a global audience, quickly followed by all kinds of theories what might have happened. This is also the point in time that severe scrutiny on Craig Wright's claims start, as "an extraordinary claim asks for extraordinary proof". Up till today, this proof has never been delivered though. Instead, an ever growing list of debunked claims, discrepancies and proven forgeries has been build.
- Info: Hackernoon article "Bitcoin Belle’s CCme: The woman who brought you Craig ‘Satoshi’ Wright strikes again…"
May
- Info: GrantCentral article "Big numbers involved in R&D Tax Incentive"
- Info: Craig Wright's company DeMorgan hints to "Bitcoin research that lasted over 6 years"
June
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Hello World! (and the world said hello back...)
October
- Info: YouTube "All-Star Panel: Ed Moy, Joseph VaughnPerling, Trace Mayer, Nick Szabo, Dr. Craig Wright"
(Craig Wright testing the waters for his #Faketoshi outcoming in December, with rare public appearance of Nick Szabo. Panel lead by Michele Seven (Bitcoin Belle))
December
- Info: Wired article "Is Bitcoin's Creator This Unknown Australian Genuis? Probably Not (Updated April 2019)"
- Info: Gizmodo article "This Aussie Says He And His Friend Invented Bitcoin"
- Info: Gizmodo article "Here's All the Evidence That Craig Wright Invented Bitcoin"
- Info: Gizmodo article "The Mystery of Craig Wright and Bitcoin Isn't Solved Yet"
- Info: CCN article "Text Analysis Confirms Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto"
- Info: BI article "The Australian who may have invented Bitcoin claimed to land $54M in taxpayer-funded rebates"
- Info: BI article "REVEALED: The ATO's $1.7M penalty on a company owned by the Australian 'Bitcoin mastermind'"
- Info: The Guardian article "Who is Craig Wright and how likely is it that he's behind bitcoin?"
- Info: Forbes article "'Probable' Bitcoin Creator Is A Garrulous Government Security Contractor And Is In Legal Trouble"
- Info: Vice article "Satoshi's PGP Keys Are Probably Backdated and Point to a Hoax"
- Info: Hacking Distributed article "How To Spot Satoshi"
- Info: ZDNet article "SGI denies links with alleged bitcoin founder Craig Wright"
- Info: The Verge article "Was the latest Bitcoin revelation actually an extortion scheme?"
- Info: Forbes article "Time To Call A Hoax? Inconsistencies On 'Probable' Bitcoin Creator's PhD And Supercomputers Revealed"
- Info: Wired article "New Clues Suggest Craig Wright, Suspected Bitcoin Creator, May Be A Hoaxer"
- Info: The New Yorker article "The Bizarre Saga of Craig Wright, the Latest “Inventor of Bitcoin”"
- Info: Mashable article "New chase for Bitcoin founder leaves everyone exhausted and no wiser"
- Info: CoinDesk article "‘Satoshi’ Denies Being Wright Amid Doubts Over PGP Data"
- Info: Vox article "Why I'm getting more skeptical of claims that Bitcoin's creator has been unmasked"
- Info: The Conversation article "Have journalists found the inventor of Bitcoin or simply been duped?"
(note that Craig Wright wrote about Bitcoin for the first time in July 2011 on The Conversation website in the comments to his own articles. Now The Conversation is using that evidence against Craig: "We actually have specific evidence that Craig Wright is very unlikely to be Satoshi Nakamoto.")
- Info: Splinter News article "Who is the hacker that outed Craig Wright as the inventor of Bitcoin? Maybe Craig Wright himself."
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The story of Andy Greenberg
The year 2016
General
After a few months silence since the December 2015 frenzy, Craig Wright gives his #Faketoshi attempts a new boost. In private demonstrations to journalists of BBC and The Economist in early May, he signs a message provided by himself, then verifies its signature in front of his (non-technical) audience. These sessions are explained, and debunked, by Dan Kaminsky and in the CCN article.
May
- Info: Craig's blog "Jean-Paul Sartre, Signing And Significance"
The following 3 media outlets were approached in advance by Craig Wright:
- Info: The Economist article "Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Is he?"
- Info: The BBC article "Australian Craig Wright claims to be Bitcoin creator"
- Info: GQ Magazine article "Dr Craig Wright Outs Himself As Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto"
Afterwards, Craig Wright wrote an article for The Register:
- Info: The Register article "I am Craig Wright, inventor of Craig Wright"
And a new media frenzy was started:
- Info: Nik Cubrilovic blog post "Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto"
- Info: Dan Kaminsky blog post "The Cryptographically Provable Con Man"
- Info: Dan Kaminsky blog post "Validating Satoshi (Or Not)"
- Info: Errata Security blog post "Satoshi: how Craig Wright's deception worked"
- Info: Hackernoon article "Did Satoshi Steal My Blog Post?"
- Info: Tweet about Hackernoon article with more evidence
- Info: Patrick McKenzie Github post "Attempting (Failed) Verification of the Wright Signature"
- Info: BI article "The incredible career of Craig Steven Wright, the Australian scientist who claims he created Bitcoin"
- Info: Washington Post article "What we know about Craig Steven Wright, who claims to have invented Bitcoin"
- Info: CCN article "Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto - the Technical Proof"
- Info: Forbes article "Craig Wright Claims He's Bitcoin Creator Satoshi -- Experts Fear An Epic Scam"
- Info: Forbes article "Craig Wright Says Sorry, He Can't Offer Proof He's Bitcoin Creator Satoshi"
- Info: The Register article "'Bitcoin creator' Craig Yeah Wright in meltdown"
- Info: Complex Projective 4-Space blog "Is Craig Wright?"
- Info: Intelligencer article "Why You Should Believe This Guy Is Bitcoin’s Creator (and Why You Shouldn’t)"
- Info: Intelligencer article "Craig Wright’s ‘Proof’ He Invented Bitcoin Is the ‘Canadian Girlfriend of Cryptographic Signatures’"
- Info: Intelligencer article "Craig Wright: Uh, Actually, I Won't Prove That I'm Satoshi Nakamoto"
- Info: Ars Technica article "Craig Wright loudly claims "I am Satoshi Nakamoto", but few believe his "proof""
- Info: Ars Technica article "Craig Wright promises "extraordinary proof" that he is Satoshi, coming soon"
- Info: Ars Technica article "Craig Wright: "I don't have the courage" to prove I'm Satoshi Nakamoto"
- Info: GQ article "Dr Craig Wright Outs Himself As Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto"
- Info: CoinTelegraph article "Why Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto"
August
- Info: Ars Technica article "Craig Wright's proof that he invented Bitcoin: "F**k off, I'm not going to jump through hoops""
- Info: GQ article "Is Craig Wright The Bitcoin Genius?"
November
- Info: GQ article "Craig Wright: The Man Who Didn't Invent Bitcoin"
General
After a few months silence since the December 2015 frenzy, Craig Wright gives his #Faketoshi attempts a new boost. In private demonstrations to journalists of BBC and The Economist in early May, he signs a message provided by himself, then verifies its signature in front of his (non-technical) audience. These sessions are explained, and debunked, by Dan Kaminsky and in the CCN article.
May
- Info: Craig's blog "Jean-Paul Sartre, Signing And Significance"
The following 3 media outlets were approached in advance by Craig Wright:
- Info: The Economist article "Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Is he?"
- Info: The BBC article "Australian Craig Wright claims to be Bitcoin creator"
- Info: GQ Magazine article "Dr Craig Wright Outs Himself As Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto"
Afterwards, Craig Wright wrote an article for The Register:
- Info: The Register article "I am Craig Wright, inventor of Craig Wright"
And a new media frenzy was started:
- Info: Nik Cubrilovic blog post "Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto"
- Info: Dan Kaminsky blog post "The Cryptographically Provable Con Man"
- Info: Dan Kaminsky blog post "Validating Satoshi (Or Not)"
- Info: Errata Security blog post "Satoshi: how Craig Wright's deception worked"
- Info: Hackernoon article "Did Satoshi Steal My Blog Post?"
- Info: Tweet about Hackernoon article with more evidence
- Info: Patrick McKenzie Github post "Attempting (Failed) Verification of the Wright Signature"
- Info: BI article "The incredible career of Craig Steven Wright, the Australian scientist who claims he created Bitcoin"
- Info: Washington Post article "What we know about Craig Steven Wright, who claims to have invented Bitcoin"
- Info: CCN article "Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto - the Technical Proof"
- Info: Forbes article "Craig Wright Claims He's Bitcoin Creator Satoshi -- Experts Fear An Epic Scam"
- Info: Forbes article "Craig Wright Says Sorry, He Can't Offer Proof He's Bitcoin Creator Satoshi"
- Info: The Register article "'Bitcoin creator' Craig Yeah Wright in meltdown"
- Info: Complex Projective 4-Space blog "Is Craig Wright?"
- Info: Intelligencer article "Why You Should Believe This Guy Is Bitcoin’s Creator (and Why You Shouldn’t)"
- Info: Intelligencer article "Craig Wright’s ‘Proof’ He Invented Bitcoin Is the ‘Canadian Girlfriend of Cryptographic Signatures’"
- Info: Intelligencer article "Craig Wright: Uh, Actually, I Won't Prove That I'm Satoshi Nakamoto"
- Info: Ars Technica article "Craig Wright loudly claims "I am Satoshi Nakamoto", but few believe his "proof""
- Info: Ars Technica article "Craig Wright promises "extraordinary proof" that he is Satoshi, coming soon"
- Info: Ars Technica article "Craig Wright: "I don't have the courage" to prove I'm Satoshi Nakamoto"
- Info: GQ article "Dr Craig Wright Outs Himself As Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto"
- Info: CoinTelegraph article "Why Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto"
August
- Info: Ars Technica article "Craig Wright's proof that he invented Bitcoin: "F**k off, I'm not going to jump through hoops""
- Info: GQ article "Is Craig Wright The Bitcoin Genius?"
November
- Info: GQ article "Craig Wright: The Man Who Didn't Invent Bitcoin"
The year 2017
General
Although having been called out numerous times by now, Craig Wright continues to claim he is Satoshi Nakamoto. He finds support in the Bitcoin Cash community. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a forked altcoin of Bitcoin (BTC) that came into existence in August 2017.
March
-Info: Reuters Research article "Bitcoin’s “creator” races to patent technology with gambling tycoon"
July
- Info: ARNnet article "Australian Bitcoin figure's supercomputing company enters liquidation"
- Info: Craig Wright's paper "The Fallacy of Selfish Mining" is heavily plagiarized
- Info: TheNextWeb article "Bitcoin ‘creator’ Craig Wright is facing accusations of plagiarism"
- Debunk: Blog hoaxchain "The hard evidence about Craig Wright's backdated PGP key"
General
Although having been called out numerous times by now, Craig Wright continues to claim he is Satoshi Nakamoto. He finds support in the Bitcoin Cash community. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is a forked altcoin of Bitcoin (BTC) that came into existence in August 2017.
March
-Info: Reuters Research article "Bitcoin’s “creator” races to patent technology with gambling tycoon"
July
- Info: ARNnet article "Australian Bitcoin figure's supercomputing company enters liquidation"
- Info: Craig Wright's paper "The Fallacy of Selfish Mining" is heavily plagiarized
- Info: TheNextWeb article "Bitcoin ‘creator’ Craig Wright is facing accusations of plagiarism"
- Debunk: Blog hoaxchain "The hard evidence about Craig Wright's backdated PGP key"
The year 2018
General
2018 is a very notable year, as the Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit starts. In which the Kleiman estate, represented by Ira Kleiman, the brother of late Dave Kleiman, puts a claim of no less than $5.1 billion on Craig Wright. This lawsuit will prove to be very fruitful in discovering more #Faketoshi forgeries of Craig Wright. In November Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) splits from Bitcoin Cash (BCH), despite several threats of Craig Wright that there will be "no split!". After the split, Craig Wright threatens to "bankrupt BTC/BCH", however fails to materialize his threats so far.
February
- Kleiman v. Wright: The start of the 5 billion dollar #BamboozleGate
- Kleiman v. Wright: Trustnodes article "Filed Lawsuit Shows Craig Wright Claimed to Own Mt Gox's Bitcoins"
- Info: WizSec article "The bitcoins that never were"
April
- Kleiman v. Wright: Craig Wright lies about not mining Bitcoin in the US
May
- Kleiman v. Wright: It's not about Craig Wright (not) being Satoshi Nakamoto
- Kleiman v. Wright: Hackernoon article "Has Craig Wright Committed Perjury?"
June
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The Bitcoin Alert Key Debunk (tweetstorm)
General
2018 is a very notable year, as the Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit starts. In which the Kleiman estate, represented by Ira Kleiman, the brother of late Dave Kleiman, puts a claim of no less than $5.1 billion on Craig Wright. This lawsuit will prove to be very fruitful in discovering more #Faketoshi forgeries of Craig Wright. In November Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) splits from Bitcoin Cash (BCH), despite several threats of Craig Wright that there will be "no split!". After the split, Craig Wright threatens to "bankrupt BTC/BCH", however fails to materialize his threats so far.
February
- Kleiman v. Wright: The start of the 5 billion dollar #BamboozleGate
- Kleiman v. Wright: Trustnodes article "Filed Lawsuit Shows Craig Wright Claimed to Own Mt Gox's Bitcoins"
- Info: WizSec article "The bitcoins that never were"
April
- Kleiman v. Wright: Craig Wright lies about not mining Bitcoin in the US
May
- Kleiman v. Wright: It's not about Craig Wright (not) being Satoshi Nakamoto
- Kleiman v. Wright: Hackernoon article "Has Craig Wright Committed Perjury?"
June
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The Bitcoin Alert Key Debunk (tweetstorm)
The year 2019
General
After having created his own community around altcoin BSV, supported by news outlet Coingeek & Coingeek Mining and his own blog where he regularly posts his musings about altcoin BSV (and keeps on making claims about being Satoshi Nakamoto), Craig Wright thinks it's now a good idea to start suing a handful of well known crypto currency community members. Among them bitcoiners Adam Back, "hodlonaut" and Peter McCormack.
-Info: Comparison Craig Wright - Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos) (tweetstorm)
February
Info: BBC article "Child abuse images hidden in [BSV] blockchain"
March
Debunk: easyCoffee image in Bitcoin v0.1.0 (2009) is post 2016 forgery
April
- Info: Craig Wright starts defamation lawsuits
- Info: Craig Wright admits to have had an alter ego Adam Selene in 2017
- Kleiman v. Wright: Craig Wright pulls forged evidence "can't verify date"
May
- Info: WizSec article "Kleiman v Craig Wright, part 2"
- Debunk: Craig Wright crashing the market with his 1 million Bitcoins in trust (hoax?)
- Debunk: Arthur van Pelt's #WeAreAllSatoshi Copyright Claim registration
June
- Info: Coindesk article "ATO to crack down on crypto tax avoidance schemes"
- Info: Should Bitcoin (Core) Developers sue Craig Wright?
- Info: Craig Wright on anonymity
- Kleiman v. Wright: Epic tweetstorm with June 28 hearing transcript & reactions
- Kleiman v. Wright: About Craig's "Bitcoin frustration" in court (June 28)
- Kleiman v. Wright: Falsely accusing the Bitcoin OGs in court (tweetstorm) (June 28)
- Info: Craig Wright claims to have Asperger Syndrome
- Info: Charlie Lee signed a block in 2016, Craig Wright however...
July
- Info: WizSec article "Kleiman v Craig Wright, part 3"
- Kleiman v. Wright: Craig admits in court having set up a tax avoidance scheme
- Kleiman v. Wright: No access to BTC, still 821,050 BTC in 2020? (tweetstorm)
- Kleiman v. Wright: No access to BTC, but still giving it all away?
August
- Kleiman v. Wright: "the foundations will sell BTC for USD and BSV"
- Kleiman v. Wright: 459 pages BTC addresses filed
- Kleiman v. Wright: Total Destruction In Court (tweetstorm) (August 26)
- Kleiman v. Wright: FT Alphaville "liar under oath - perjurer" article (August 26)
- Kleiman v. Wright: Cointelegraph about Calvin Ayre's false claims (August 26)
- Kleiman v. Wright: Judge Reinhart version of technobabble (August 26)
- Kleiman v. Wright: Maximum possible penalty
- Kleiman v. Wright: Ira dumping BTC or Craig buying BTC?
- Debunk: "Craig Wright is Bitcoin copyright holder."
- Debunk: "Craig Wright - His scam articles gathered in a book."
- Debunk: CCN article - "Bitcoin Faketoshi Fails Again? Craig Wright ‘Exposed’ by Microsoft Office"
- Info: WizSec article "Kleiman v Craig Wright, part 4"
- Info: WizSec article "Kleiman v Craig Wright, part 5"
- Info: Craig Wright - Frauds (tweetstorm)
- Info: Peter McCormack exploring a class action against Craig's camp
September
- Debunk: Coil.com article "Craig Wright IS Satoshi Nakamoto" (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Satoshi Nakamoto on Bitcoin
- Debunk: Craig Wright - On Patents (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Hilarious podcast with 3 lawyers about the Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Patent Wars
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The Average Lifespan of his Business Endeavors (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig Wright caught backdating a paper "Understanding Conditionals in Shellcode"
- Debunk: How being involved with BSV gives you a bad reputation
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Death Threats to BTC (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Satoshi vs Craig on "data"
October
- Info: Jameson Lopp article "Craig Wright's Copyright Claim"
- Info: CryptoPotato article "Crypto Leaders to Boycott Conference Presenting Craig Wright as Satoshi Nakamoto"
- Info: Craig Wright - The TL;DR Fraud Timeline Summary (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Envisioning Bitcoin
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Rusty Staples as evidence
- Debunk: Rusty Staples - Bitcoinist article - Shitcoin article
- Debunk: Meet Lisa, Craig's sister
- Debunk: Bitmex Research about Craig's Wright frauds (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Painted Frog "One of his most ham fisted attempts to concoct fake evidence yet" (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Painted Frog "The Northumbria University update"
- Debunk: Painted Frog "Something's not adding up about this coffee-stained whitepaper thing"
- Video: Craig lies about having kissed Jim Morrison
- Video: Craig meltdown during GQ interview
- Video: Craig lies about never appearing on tv again
- Debunk: How far away BSV is from Bitcoin
- Debunk: Craig Wright - My revolution is not cypherpunk
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Lying about Hal Finney once more
- Fun fact: Craig Wright - Why he walks like C-3PO
November
- Kleiman v. Wright: Craig Wright cannot finance settlement
- Kleiman v. Wright: The Tulip Trust bonded courier is back!
- Kleiman v. Wright: Craig Wright implies that Dave Kleiman stole Bitcoin from him
- Kleiman v. Wright: Debunk of Craig lying about Mike Hearn mined address
- Debunk: Craig Wright - How he bamboozled Jon Matonis & Gavin Andresen
- Debunk: Craig Wright - BTC is a 2017 taxable airdrop income
- Meme: BSV 1 year anniversary
- Debunk: Craig Wright on Bitcoin transactions
- Debunk: Craig Wright kissed Jim Morrison (who died in 1971) in the 1990s
- Debunk: Several inconsistencies in Craig Wright's blog posts
December
- Kleiman v. Wright: Great summery by Ira's counsel of all Craig's lies in court
- Kleiman v. Wright: Reply to this summary by Craig's counsel
- Kleiman v. Wright: Info about Craig's wife Ramona Watts
- Debunk: Craig explains the root of the Nakamoto pseudonym (1)
- Debunk: Craig explains the root of the Nakamoto pseudonym (2)
- Debunk: Craig Wright commits possible perjury about his Mt Gox holdings
- Debunk: From Satoshi's open source to Faketoshi's BSV-only
- Debunk: Craig Wright - On Wikileaks (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Why Craig Wright is wrong about Bitcoin being Turing Complete
- Debunk: But in 2013, Craig Wright thought Bitcoin is NOT Turing Complete
General
After having created his own community around altcoin BSV, supported by news outlet Coingeek & Coingeek Mining and his own blog where he regularly posts his musings about altcoin BSV (and keeps on making claims about being Satoshi Nakamoto), Craig Wright thinks it's now a good idea to start suing a handful of well known crypto currency community members. Among them bitcoiners Adam Back, "hodlonaut" and Peter McCormack.
-Info: Comparison Craig Wright - Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos) (tweetstorm)
February
Info: BBC article "Child abuse images hidden in [BSV] blockchain"
March
Debunk: easyCoffee image in Bitcoin v0.1.0 (2009) is post 2016 forgery
April
- Info: Craig Wright starts defamation lawsuits
- Info: Craig Wright admits to have had an alter ego Adam Selene in 2017
- Kleiman v. Wright: Craig Wright pulls forged evidence "can't verify date"
May
- Info: WizSec article "Kleiman v Craig Wright, part 2"
- Debunk: Craig Wright crashing the market with his 1 million Bitcoins in trust (hoax?)
- Debunk: Arthur van Pelt's #WeAreAllSatoshi Copyright Claim registration
June
- Info: Coindesk article "ATO to crack down on crypto tax avoidance schemes"
- Info: Should Bitcoin (Core) Developers sue Craig Wright?
- Info: Craig Wright on anonymity
- Kleiman v. Wright: Epic tweetstorm with June 28 hearing transcript & reactions
- Kleiman v. Wright: About Craig's "Bitcoin frustration" in court (June 28)
- Kleiman v. Wright: Falsely accusing the Bitcoin OGs in court (tweetstorm) (June 28)
- Info: Craig Wright claims to have Asperger Syndrome
- Info: Charlie Lee signed a block in 2016, Craig Wright however...
July
- Info: WizSec article "Kleiman v Craig Wright, part 3"
- Kleiman v. Wright: Craig admits in court having set up a tax avoidance scheme
- Kleiman v. Wright: No access to BTC, still 821,050 BTC in 2020? (tweetstorm)
- Kleiman v. Wright: No access to BTC, but still giving it all away?
August
- Kleiman v. Wright: "the foundations will sell BTC for USD and BSV"
- Kleiman v. Wright: 459 pages BTC addresses filed
- Kleiman v. Wright: Total Destruction In Court (tweetstorm) (August 26)
- Kleiman v. Wright: FT Alphaville "liar under oath - perjurer" article (August 26)
- Kleiman v. Wright: Cointelegraph about Calvin Ayre's false claims (August 26)
- Kleiman v. Wright: Judge Reinhart version of technobabble (August 26)
- Kleiman v. Wright: Maximum possible penalty
- Kleiman v. Wright: Ira dumping BTC or Craig buying BTC?
- Debunk: "Craig Wright is Bitcoin copyright holder."
- Debunk: "Craig Wright - His scam articles gathered in a book."
- Debunk: CCN article - "Bitcoin Faketoshi Fails Again? Craig Wright ‘Exposed’ by Microsoft Office"
- Info: WizSec article "Kleiman v Craig Wright, part 4"
- Info: WizSec article "Kleiman v Craig Wright, part 5"
- Info: Craig Wright - Frauds (tweetstorm)
- Info: Peter McCormack exploring a class action against Craig's camp
September
- Debunk: Coil.com article "Craig Wright IS Satoshi Nakamoto" (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Satoshi Nakamoto on Bitcoin
- Debunk: Craig Wright - On Patents (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Hilarious podcast with 3 lawyers about the Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Patent Wars
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The Average Lifespan of his Business Endeavors (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig Wright caught backdating a paper "Understanding Conditionals in Shellcode"
- Debunk: How being involved with BSV gives you a bad reputation
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Death Threats to BTC (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Satoshi vs Craig on "data"
October
- Info: Jameson Lopp article "Craig Wright's Copyright Claim"
- Info: CryptoPotato article "Crypto Leaders to Boycott Conference Presenting Craig Wright as Satoshi Nakamoto"
- Info: Craig Wright - The TL;DR Fraud Timeline Summary (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Envisioning Bitcoin
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Rusty Staples as evidence
- Debunk: Rusty Staples - Bitcoinist article - Shitcoin article
- Debunk: Meet Lisa, Craig's sister
- Debunk: Bitmex Research about Craig's Wright frauds (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Painted Frog "One of his most ham fisted attempts to concoct fake evidence yet" (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Painted Frog "The Northumbria University update"
- Debunk: Painted Frog "Something's not adding up about this coffee-stained whitepaper thing"
- Video: Craig lies about having kissed Jim Morrison
- Video: Craig meltdown during GQ interview
- Video: Craig lies about never appearing on tv again
- Debunk: How far away BSV is from Bitcoin
- Debunk: Craig Wright - My revolution is not cypherpunk
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Lying about Hal Finney once more
- Fun fact: Craig Wright - Why he walks like C-3PO
November
- Kleiman v. Wright: Craig Wright cannot finance settlement
- Kleiman v. Wright: The Tulip Trust bonded courier is back!
- Kleiman v. Wright: Craig Wright implies that Dave Kleiman stole Bitcoin from him
- Kleiman v. Wright: Debunk of Craig lying about Mike Hearn mined address
- Debunk: Craig Wright - How he bamboozled Jon Matonis & Gavin Andresen
- Debunk: Craig Wright - BTC is a 2017 taxable airdrop income
- Meme: BSV 1 year anniversary
- Debunk: Craig Wright on Bitcoin transactions
- Debunk: Craig Wright kissed Jim Morrison (who died in 1971) in the 1990s
- Debunk: Several inconsistencies in Craig Wright's blog posts
December
- Kleiman v. Wright: Great summery by Ira's counsel of all Craig's lies in court
- Kleiman v. Wright: Reply to this summary by Craig's counsel
- Kleiman v. Wright: Info about Craig's wife Ramona Watts
- Debunk: Craig explains the root of the Nakamoto pseudonym (1)
- Debunk: Craig explains the root of the Nakamoto pseudonym (2)
- Debunk: Craig Wright commits possible perjury about his Mt Gox holdings
- Debunk: From Satoshi's open source to Faketoshi's BSV-only
- Debunk: Craig Wright - On Wikileaks (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Why Craig Wright is wrong about Bitcoin being Turing Complete
- Debunk: But in 2013, Craig Wright thought Bitcoin is NOT Turing Complete
The year 2020
General
Over the years, since 2014, Craig Wright has claimed numerous times that an amount of 1.1 million Bitcoins (the "Satoshi stash" mined by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009-2010), locked in a Seychelles blind trust called Tulip Trust, will come under his control in January 2020, as "bonded couriers will deliver the Shamir slices that give access to the private keys". In court Florida, during the Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit, after Craig declared he wasn't sure anymore if this would actually happen "since he didn't know if Dave Kleiman had arranged everything properly", this story has been labeled "file [with slices] does not exist" and "I have found that Dr. Wright intentionally submitted fraudulent [Tulip Trust and other] documents to the Court, obstructed a judicial proceeding, and gave perjurious testimony" by Judge Reinhart. So let's see what happens on January 1, 2020.
Edit: As expected, nothing happened. And Craig kicked the can further down the road with yet another trust where the private keys are supposed to be held...
January
- Info: January 1, 2020 is the day.
- Info: The Tulip Trust orchestrated price pump
- Info: BeInCrypto article - Bitcoin SV Short May Be the Most Profitable Opportunity of 2020
- Opinion: Is the Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit complicated? Nah.
- Kleiman v. Wright: Meet Tulip Trust III
- Kleiman v. Wright: Summary of Craig's conflicting Tulip Trust story in court
- Kleiman v. Wright: "Dr Wright has produced a list of his Bitcoin holdings"
- Kleiman v. Wright: "Defendant has produced over 1.5 million pages"
- Debunk: Andy Long - Discrepancy with Craig's 2019 sworn statement
- Debunk: Andy Long - Discrepancy about Craig being yes/no trustee
- Debunk: Craig Wright on Bitcoin being a crime coin
- Debunk: Craig Wright's mistake about upload.ae (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Coingeek publishes Craig's "Microsoft patch Tuesday" lie (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Coingeek publishes "Microsoft patch Tuesday" disclaimer
- Debunk: Coingeek deletes "Microsoft patch Tuesday" disclaimer
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The Unbounded Capital scam (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Sam Williams article - Response to Unbounded Capital’s attempt to show that Craig Wright is Satoshi
- Debunk: Craig Wright - His "Set In Stone" Misunderstanding (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Martin Sewell - CSW is the antithesis of Satoshi
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Hal came in on Jan 12, 2009 (nope, Nov 2008)
- Debunk: Craig Wright first started talking about Bitcoin in 2008 (nope, July 2011)
- Debunk: "Liars tend to blink more because lying is stressful. Under stress, eye blink rate increases (Mann, 2013)."
March
-Info: Craig Wright performs fraud on Binance, opens 100+ accounts
April
- Info: Craig Wright - 7 years of hijacking Bitcoin overview
- Info: 2 articles by Francesco Bonomi about Paul Le Roux
- Info: nChain sells IP to Taal
- Info: Update on Craig's 5 libel suits
- Debunk: Craig Wright - To HODL or not to HODL, that's the question
- Debunk: Craig Wright's LLM dissertation is full of plagiarism
this article by painted_frog got some traction in the media:
- Info: CoinTelegraph - Satoshi claimant Craig Wright accused of plagiarizing law degree
- Info: Decrypt - Craig Wright accused of plagiarizing his dissertation
- Info: Bitcoin Magazine 2 hour YouTube podcast with Arthur van Pelt
- Debunk: How was Craig Wright behaving around 2010? (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Modern Consensus - The case against Craig Wright part 1
- Debunk: Modern Consensus - The case against Craig Wright part 2
- Debunk: Craig Wright falsely connects his 2008 thesis to Calvin Ayre (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Overview why Craig Wright can't code (tweetstorm)
May
- Debunk: Craig Wright heavily plagiarized his 2017 PhD thesis
General
Over the years, since 2014, Craig Wright has claimed numerous times that an amount of 1.1 million Bitcoins (the "Satoshi stash" mined by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009-2010), locked in a Seychelles blind trust called Tulip Trust, will come under his control in January 2020, as "bonded couriers will deliver the Shamir slices that give access to the private keys". In court Florida, during the Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit, after Craig declared he wasn't sure anymore if this would actually happen "since he didn't know if Dave Kleiman had arranged everything properly", this story has been labeled "file [with slices] does not exist" and "I have found that Dr. Wright intentionally submitted fraudulent [Tulip Trust and other] documents to the Court, obstructed a judicial proceeding, and gave perjurious testimony" by Judge Reinhart. So let's see what happens on January 1, 2020.
Edit: As expected, nothing happened. And Craig kicked the can further down the road with yet another trust where the private keys are supposed to be held...
January
- Info: January 1, 2020 is the day.
- Info: The Tulip Trust orchestrated price pump
- Info: BeInCrypto article - Bitcoin SV Short May Be the Most Profitable Opportunity of 2020
- Opinion: Is the Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit complicated? Nah.
- Kleiman v. Wright: Meet Tulip Trust III
- Kleiman v. Wright: Summary of Craig's conflicting Tulip Trust story in court
- Kleiman v. Wright: "Dr Wright has produced a list of his Bitcoin holdings"
- Kleiman v. Wright: "Defendant has produced over 1.5 million pages"
- Debunk: Andy Long - Discrepancy with Craig's 2019 sworn statement
- Debunk: Andy Long - Discrepancy about Craig being yes/no trustee
- Debunk: Craig Wright on Bitcoin being a crime coin
- Debunk: Craig Wright's mistake about upload.ae (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Coingeek publishes Craig's "Microsoft patch Tuesday" lie (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Coingeek publishes "Microsoft patch Tuesday" disclaimer
- Debunk: Coingeek deletes "Microsoft patch Tuesday" disclaimer
- Debunk: Craig Wright - The Unbounded Capital scam (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Sam Williams article - Response to Unbounded Capital’s attempt to show that Craig Wright is Satoshi
- Debunk: Craig Wright - His "Set In Stone" Misunderstanding (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Martin Sewell - CSW is the antithesis of Satoshi
- Debunk: Craig Wright - Hal came in on Jan 12, 2009 (nope, Nov 2008)
- Debunk: Craig Wright first started talking about Bitcoin in 2008 (nope, July 2011)
- Debunk: "Liars tend to blink more because lying is stressful. Under stress, eye blink rate increases (Mann, 2013)."
March
-Info: Craig Wright performs fraud on Binance, opens 100+ accounts
April
- Info: Craig Wright - 7 years of hijacking Bitcoin overview
- Info: 2 articles by Francesco Bonomi about Paul Le Roux
- Info: nChain sells IP to Taal
- Info: Update on Craig's 5 libel suits
- Debunk: Craig Wright - To HODL or not to HODL, that's the question
- Debunk: Craig Wright's LLM dissertation is full of plagiarism
this article by painted_frog got some traction in the media:
- Info: CoinTelegraph - Satoshi claimant Craig Wright accused of plagiarizing law degree
- Info: Decrypt - Craig Wright accused of plagiarizing his dissertation
- Info: Bitcoin Magazine 2 hour YouTube podcast with Arthur van Pelt
- Debunk: How was Craig Wright behaving around 2010? (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Modern Consensus - The case against Craig Wright part 1
- Debunk: Modern Consensus - The case against Craig Wright part 2
- Debunk: Craig Wright falsely connects his 2008 thesis to Calvin Ayre (tweetstorm)
- Debunk: Overview why Craig Wright can't code (tweetstorm)
May
- Debunk: Craig Wright heavily plagiarized his 2017 PhD thesis
More general information
- Court Docket: Kleiman v. Wright main lawsuit
- Court Docket: Kleiman v. Wright (main lawsuit, false start)
- Court Docket: Kleiman v. Wright (Joseph Vaughn Perling)
- Court Docket: Kleiman v. Wright (Jimmy Nguyen)
- Court Docket: Kleiman v. Wright (Brendan J. Sullivan)
- Website: All Craig Wright lawsuits overview
- Website: Stop Craig Wright
- Bitcoin Magazine (Jameson Lopp): Op Ed: How many wrongs make a Wright?
- Court Docket: Kleiman v. Wright main lawsuit
- Court Docket: Kleiman v. Wright (main lawsuit, false start)
- Court Docket: Kleiman v. Wright (Joseph Vaughn Perling)
- Court Docket: Kleiman v. Wright (Jimmy Nguyen)
- Court Docket: Kleiman v. Wright (Brendan J. Sullivan)
- Website: All Craig Wright lawsuits overview
- Website: Stop Craig Wright
- Bitcoin Magazine (Jameson Lopp): Op Ed: How many wrongs make a Wright?
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