[acqq]

Good catch! My thoughts: I imagine the post with the information that's easy to verify, it would have numbers (and files) that could be easily copied, not images that need to be OCR-ed or retyped. So why images? Only to postpone the moment of the verification or the rejection of the claims. Only somebody who wants to postpone that would come to both to the idea of using the images and attempting to make the saving of the images harder. The goal is also supported by having the rambling post, unnecessary references, unverifiable old text segment. So the post's purpose then isn't to prove something but to be a stumbling block long enough for something to happen, like completing some nice media contracts, maybe? And he can later sell that event even as "How I tricked BBC to write 'His admission ends years of speculation.'"

[roywiggins]

The blog has code preventing ctrl/alt/shift as well, presumably as a crude anti-copy device. What is this, 2003?! Who does that?

It just screams self-important and under informed, two qualities not previously associated with Satoshi.

[acqq]

And if you read the posts on Wright's blog, they have the comparable "taste" of "appearing impressive to those who aren't in the subject, appearing uninformed to those who know" whether he writes about sha256 or programming details like timestamps.

There's also a hint of how some of the posts were made:

https://medium.com/@jprichardson/did-satoshi-steal-my-blog-p...

[gedrap]

Interesting point about OCR. But isn't bypassing it as straightforward as taking a partial screenshot, which is simple in any modern OS? At which point it is so simple that it doesn't make much sense.

Although this story is full of mysteries, I'd let this particular bit slide. Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice, as they say.

[acqq]

> At which point it is so simple that it doesn't make much sense.

Isn't overriding the right-click in the browser even simpler? All of this is just to win the time.

[capitalsigma]

Or just disable JS.