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Re:Craig Wright ordered to hand over half of his alleged Bit... by sp332 on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @05:20AM (#20818136)
Well, he has been claiming to own them. So the court ordered him to hand over half. I guess he could now try to convince the court that he doesn't own them.
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Re:Craig Wright ordered to hand over half of his alleged Bit... by steve_taylor on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @05:35AM (#20818185)
He failed to prove that he’s the inventor of Bitcoin. That doesn’t prove that he isn’t.
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Re:Craig Wright ordered to hand over half of his alleged Bit... by letstrynvm on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @07:27AM (#20818690)
If he was though, it'd have various implications such as it not being difficult to prove he had access to his own private keys.

I can imagine you might be the guy and not want to prove it, or it to be known. But actively claiming to be the guy and not proving it indisputibly when you could... what'd be the point?

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Re:Craig Wright ordered to hand over half of his alleged Bit... by andirk on Thursday August 29, 2019 @03:29PM (#20832785)
Besides having private keys to early wallets, my #1 reason to not believe him is his arrogance and loving attention. The Nakamoto(s) that wrote the white paper and spoke on forums about it was/were very anonymous and privacy-obsessed.
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