[jdoliner]

The galaxy brain take is that Craig Wright actually is Satoshi Nakamoto and his inept attempts to prove his identity is merely another layer of op-sec. After this ruling anyone who even attempts to reveal his true identity will be dismissed and ridiculed.

[seanhunter]

Yeah the "galaxy brain" move is tell everyone you're Satoshi, take out a bunch of lawsuits in the US to try to enforce copyright of the name, lose them, sue people in the UK who say you aren't Satoshi, lose a few of those lawsuits (and drop the rest), lose $100m in damages in the US to the estate of some other dude, lose this copa lawsuit as well. Along the way every judge says stuff about how you aren't at all credible[1]. Now noone will suspect you're the real Satoshi.

Much better than say just keeping quiet. It's like how stealth jets make a bunch of noise so noone will suspect they want to stay hidden.

[1] Read this - to someone who had no interest in this before it's hillarious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Steven_Wright#Legal_issu...

[kstrauser]

I’m blissfully ignorant of most of this debacle, but wouldn’t it be easy for the real Satoshi to prove his(?) identity, say with crypto keys only they would have?

[prawn]

It's unlikely that they would want to out themselves and put a massive target on their back.

[ur-whale]

> It's unlikely that they would want to out themselves

He would not need to out himself.

A simple "Satoshi Nakamoto is not Craig Wright", signed with the private key of the coinbase of block zero or one would be plenty of evidence against Wright without ever revealing who produced the message.

But then, why would Satoshi, assuming he's still alive, ever lower himself to even get involved in this particular quagmire?

[defrost]

There's a reasonable possiblity that Satoshi Nakamoto is a Nicolas Bourbaki, aka a small collective of shared creators that also have a shared key - meaning that all, or a majority, if still alive to form a quorum, would have to agree to release early coins, sign messages, etc.

There's a reasonable chance this was a case of "try this idea and see how it works out" that only grew because of early "hoarding" which was a deliberate strategy at the time and there is no current consensus on releasing any more infomation or coins.

[ianburrell]

Satoshi would be billionaire. Billionaires can hire tons of security to protect them. They can also pay for vaults to keep their Bitcoin keys. They can setup funds to manage their investments including Bitcoins.

[prawn]

Obviously. And you'd need to secure family and friends as well, otherwise at this scale, they would be targeted, including by entire nations. But if you have that wealth and can stay an unknown, it's going to be even more secure.

[Natfan]

Interesting that you used he/him initially (with a question mark), then switch to they/them in the next clause.

[kstrauser]

Well, we just don’t know, do we?