Now, given this blog post, what I'm wondering is: maybe Satoshi offered his private keys to this guy to avoid problems in the future, and so that they stop chasing him?
EDIT: s/sold/offered/ (because I believe Satoshi doesn't have the need to sell anything these days)
That's the best theory I've heard so far. That would explain why he chose a weak verification message (the Sartre quote, instead of a message that proves the signature to be recent). The real Satoshi would have chosen a different proof, but Wright doesn't know any better.
So far, he hasn't published the verification message in full, and no signature either. The ones in the blog are dummies.
How could you know what the real Satoshi would do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZNtbAFnr-0
If he is Satoshi, and what he's saying about being forced to reveal his identity now is true, it would make sense to provide the minimum that the threateners would accept, knowing that the community wouldn't buy it. That video is really odd. (FWIW I don't believe this claim is or isn't true, I'm waiting for more info.)
He was forced to. He doesn't want to be public, and he wishes he didn't have to be.
I'm very reluctant to believe Craig Wright is Satoshi, but didn't have firm evidence (because he hadn't released info). Now that it appears the "signature of message" is just a signature from something else, it looks like he's actively a fraud, but I haven't validated it myself.
(The back-dated PGP key and alternate subkey from earlier was super sketch, but could have been someone else.)
You're probably right.
Cryptographic proofs speak for themselves, just release them to the public instead of relying on a centralized authority (Anderson and Matonis) to verify them, which is ironic.
Gavin doesn't mention it on his Twitter account.
Does anyone have a primary source that corroborates this from Gavin?
> That signature was copied on to a clean usb stick I brought with me to London, and then validated on a brand-new laptop with a freshly downloaded copy of electrum.
> I was not allowed to keep the message or laptop (fear it would leak before Official Announcement).
> I don't have an explanation for the funky OpenSSL procedure in his blog post."
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4hfyyo/gavin_can_you_p...
I hope you are not but it sure looks like it
