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Story: The Original Bitcoin White Paper and Why Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto

By James Thorp

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Riccardo Spagni of Monero Network recently hosted the Bitcoin whitepaper, as distributed by Satoshi under the MIT license with the original Bitcoin code at craigwrightisnotsatoshi.

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He stated that this URL is one of the many places where users will be able to find the Bitcoin White Paper as distributed by Satoshi Nakamoto under the MIT License.

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He also pointed to how the license explicitly covers the "associated documentation files", and provides permission, without restriction, to use, publish, and distribute the…

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He also states that it's very important to note that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto.  Riccardo establishes that Craig Wright is a fraudster claiming to be Satoshi with…

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Also, every piece of "evidence" he has produced in the past has been debunked and found to be a poorly-executed forgery.

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He also pointed to how the forgeries are not just bad, but that they are low-effort, which were meant to fool those who are unfamiliar with technology to make them believe random…

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The URL contains the signature for 145 Bitcoin blocks that were mined in 2009 (the year of Bitcoin's launch), many of which Craig Wright has claimed to be blocks that he…

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Riccardo points to how “As the message makes clear, these blocks were not mined by Craig at all, making it another in a long list of lies that Craig Wright has told publicly and…

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Further stated, "Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn't have the keys used to sign this message.

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Riccardo however points to that the Lightning Network is a significant achievement. “And, also on how we need to continue working on improving on-chain capacity.

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This is not something new that we are getting to know.  There is even a Wikipedia mention which clarifies on how people have a hard time believing Craig Wright to be the…

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