Satoshi was anonymous for a very good reason. He is the gre…
Satoshi was anonymous for a very good reason. He is the greatest attack vector.
Let's say Craig is Satoshi (he may over state his role but whatever) why wouldn't he be compromised by now?
The man has a family. He would do what anyone does when men in black show up and tell him what's what.
Everything he does makes sense when you assume he has been compromised. He is tarnishing big block bitcoin with the absolute clown show in court. He is changing the narrative towards plumbing for CBDCs.
When was the last time Craig championed bitcoin as p2p electronic cash?
He's probably doing what he does to stay out of jail and keep his family safe.
Even if he's Satoshi, at this point he is definitely a threat to bitcoin.
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I agree that when threatened with his family being harmed he probably can be blackmailed.
Would be game theory in the end.
But every attacker should know, that at some point the other person can go full tilt.
Quote from "fight club": only he who has nothing to lose has the freedom to do whatever he wants. (Not sure if it is exactly the quote, but something similar).
The person threatend can also create something like a "dead mans switch".
In my opinion some sort of a compromise would make the most sense.
There are many possibilities for compromising someone.
But it is hard to deny that Craig's behavior makes no sense whatsoever, from false claims to destroy BTC, to the absolute clown show in court -- unless he is comprised. Then all of it suddenly makes percent sense.
Not taking the possibility into consideration is naive.
Yep, thats why I wrote: a compromise would make the most sense.
So Craig may have made a compromise.
I can absolutely make no sense of his actions.
You may be right with your theory posted somewhere else, that they have mapped "different faces" to each of the forks and ridicule those faces to ridicule the whole corresponding project.
I am also thinking about if the time for something like BSV is right.
A lot of people do not seem interested in truth, and without demand, the supply is kinda useless.