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Re:Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto by gherkin0 on Monday May 02, 2016 @12:13PM (#11612689)
Didn't Satoshi also sign his earliest messages with a PGP key? If this guy's really Satoshi, couldn't he just sign a new message stating so with that same private key?
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Re:Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto by aab0 on Monday May 02, 2016 @01:39PM (#11613617)
No. Satoshi signed nothing with that PGP key that we know. Its purpose seems to have been for other people emailing him.
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Re:Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto by jessaustin on Monday May 02, 2016 @01:53PM (#11613754)
Even so, one who actually possessed that private key could sign a new message with it, and we could use the public key we know to verify that signature.
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