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Wilfully indifferent to the truth because Wright's position matched perfectly with what he'd been pushing for is a possibility between outright complicit and completely naive.

Wright was transparently, painfully, fake to every (other) technical expert. He can't make it 5 minutes talking about Bitcoin without inserting some claim which is obviously false or outright nonsense. Considering his chosen vocation (satoshi impersonator) he's been extremely uninformed about Bitcoin's technical history... worse, he tends to try to employ "bet you didn't know" 'zingers' based on reading some public summary which are just incorrect (because he misunderood the source or the source was wrong-- wright isn't very literate in code).

For a person who is technically proficient in Bitcoin to fall for him it isn't sufficient for them to have just been tricked by him, they also have to be blind to more red flags than a communist military parade. :)