| Wright is a conman, his analysis of risk is very different from yours. He has repeadily taken actions which were almost sure to get him caught, he got caught, and he just kept going. He would have no reason to know or care if Satoshi would rebuke him. If Satoshi did, Wright would just ignore it or claim it was a fraud. In fact, in the Florida lawsuit Wright provided a list of thousands of addresses he claimed to control and mined bitcoin to. The document was accidentally published without redaction and shortly thereafter the owners of 145 addresses controlling over 7000 bitcoin stepped up and posted signatures saying the addresses weren't wright and that wright is a fraud. Wright's reaction? When asked about this he claims that there were no signatures created and just moves on. When one interviewer pressed a bit he just blathered about you can't have signatures without identity and became irate and the interviewer changed subjects. Or more specifically to this case: In a document to the ATO Wright claimed to own several high value addresses. Two of them were actually owned by known community members, one produced a signature calling Wright a fraud, the other was called as a witness against wright in Florida. ... Wright ignored that and is suing us over the ones from that same list that where the owners haven't spoken up (yet, in one case the owner appears to have robbed a bitcoin exchange so even if they're aware of the case they're not likely to speak up). As far as Dave goes: The only material that has ever linked Dave to Bitcoin was material wright produced to support his tax fraud, most (all?) of which has been proved to be forgeries created after Dave's death. As far as anyone can tell Dave had no particular programming expertise-- he was more of a PC tech and windows IT security guy--, the only software he appears to have created was a simple visual basic windows registry checking tool. Of course, it's not impossible that just about anyone created Bitcoin, but I would expect that more than 3/4 of the participants in any random thread on HN would be a better candidate than Dave. |