Craig Wright's Satoshi-cosplaying days may be coming to curtain close
There are fewer big names in tech and Bitcoin circles than Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Block Inc.
When Dorsey saw that Wright was personally naming and suing a dozen lead devs of Bitcoin Core for $5.4bn in an English High Court case, he knew it was time to step in. The existential threat to Bitcoin and to those who develop it by someone who allegedly pretends to be Satoshi was too much. He stepped in and funded the devs' legal expenses with others creating the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund.
In July, attorneys defending the devs filed their papers claiming that Wright has a history of fraud.
Wright attempted to have the evidence of his fraud withdrawn.
In October 2023, the High Court allowed the case against Wright to be amended to use Wright's alleged fraudulent evidence from the past to be used against him.
The evidence now details 50 instances of forgery in evidence that Wright is relying on in court. Here are some of the main ones:
• 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 (e.g., ID_000525, ID_000227, ID_000260, ID_000536, ID_000554).
• 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 (e.g., ID_000538).
• Edited text to refer to Bitcoin in the future tense “to make the document appear as if it was created at a time before Bitcoin was created” (e.g., ID_000227).
After the defense published the evidence online, Twitter users began to point out the strong evidence against Wright.
This Twitter user mentioned:
COPA's counsel Bird & Bird contacted the Chinese manufacturer of the "BDO August 2007 meeting minutes" paper, turns out that this design was only produced starting November 2009.
Another Twitter user added
Here's a pre-release bitcoin.exe with "Copyright 2008 Dr Craig Wright" in the About Bitcoin dialog box— Craig Wright.
It's been hex-edited to change Satoshi Nakamoto to Craig Wright in the About dialog, it has a 2010 timestamp and the checksum matches the real bitcoin.exe — COPA.
See all of the 50 pieces of evidence against Craig Wright at: