[Recommend my two-volume book for more reading]: BIT & COIN: Merging Digitality and Physicality
Roger Ver, and subsequently, many others, argued that Dr. Craig S. Wright could not be Satoshi because he does not even know that a bitcoin address has a checksum.
A checksum in Bitcoin is a small data piece added to addresses to ensure they are correct. It helps detect typos by comparing a stored hash with a recalculated one, preventing accidental transactions to a wrong addresses. This is a standard and crucial feature for Bitcoin’s security.
The context of this had to do with a discussion of burn addresses of bitcoin. (By way of background, a burn address is a special address where coins are sent to be permanently removed from circulation. It typically has no corresponding private key, making the bitcoins irretrievable. This process, known as “burning,” is often used in Proof of Burn mechanisms for other blockchains or to reduce supply. It is less relevant to Bitcoin compared to cryptocurrencies like Ethereum.)
It was an old thread in 2018. Because the original posts have been deleted, the context is rather obscure.
But based on what I can see, this is what happened:
–Someone promoted an idea of “burn address” for bitcoin (the purported burn address ending with the string “UWLpVr”).
–CSW argued that it must be a scam, because if they wanted a real burn address, they could create an address that is verifiably invalid (he gave two examples, one ending with XXXXXX, the other ending with BurnoAddr), so why a particular one that cannot be verified (and therefore others have to trust that the promoter is telling the truth)?
Therefore, CSW asserted that the purported burn address is not a real burn address but was fraudulently presented as a burn address. (A real burn address would be verifiably permanently unredeemable. An address purported as a burn address but can be redeemed by the people behind it is, by definition, a fraud.)
Whether CSW’s accusation against the fraud was factually valid or not, his reasoning was impeccable.
If Roger Ver used that thread as “evidence” that CSW did not know that Bitcoin had a checksum, then I really agree with @EquityDiamonds’ conclusion that Roger is either a fraud or wasn’t knowledgeable.
By the way, @J_B_N_P’s reply to CSW’s post was very strange. It was literally saying that because CSW had given an example of what a real burn address could be, he (CSW) did not make sense. But that was the raison d’être for the very conversation itself!
It only proves that CSW knew what he was talking about, and others didn’t (or intentionally didn’t want to)!
Anyway, there are too many ridiculous examples of such accusations against CSW. It takes more than a team of psychologists, along with the help of historians, real bitcoin experts (and honest ones) to explain why and how this has happened, and continues to happen.
Yes, I do mean “psychologists,” not only because of the subconscious motivation behind the Cult of Satoshi, which has grown to such an idolatrous level that it preemptively and absolutely denies the real person behind Satoshi (or any real human being for being Satoshi for that matter), but also because the whole behavior pattern is deeply driven by greed, and masked by clever schemes.
[Recommend my two-volume book for more reading]: BIT & COIN: Merging Digitality and Physicality
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