- 145 Tulip Trust addresses cryptographically signed by the true owner
- Calvin Ayre blames disgruntled former nChain employee
- Revelation leaves Wright in serious legal trouble
Craig Wright’s claim to be Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto looked shakier than ever yesterday following the signing of 145 Bitcoin addresses Wright claimed to belong to his Tulip Trust, and therefore wallets that no one else should be able to control. The revelation comes just days after Bitcoin associated with another Tulip Trust wallet was moved without Wright’s knowledge or influence, despite the wallet belonging to him.
Someone just signed a message calling Craig a fraud from 145 addresses Craig claimed were his in the Tulip Trust.
I verified the first few addresses on the list, and their signatures and presence on Craig’s list checks out.https://t.co/gwTy8GcmiF pic.twitter.com/4hHCKr8NCA
— Zectro (@Zectro1) May 25, 2020
“Craig Steven Wright Is a Liar and a Fraud”
Wright included the 145 Bitcoin addresses in his list of thousands of addresses he claimed belonged to himself and his former partner Dave Kleiman, e.g. Satoshi Nakamoto, to which they mined ₿1.1 million in Bitcoin’s formative years. However, the true owner of 145 of those addresses has just steamrollered over Wright’s claims by doing what Wright has singularly failed to do and cryptographically signed the addresses with the corresponding private key, adding an explanatory note in the process:
Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. He doesn’t have the keys used to sign this message. The Lightning Network is a significant achievement. However, we need to continue work on improving on-chain capacity. Unfortunately, the solution is not to just change a constant in the code or to allow powerful participants to force out others.
Wright’s mouthpiece Calvin Ayre, who seems to be nothing more than the lightning rod for Wright’s comedy of errors these days, was quickly on the scene putting out fires, cutting short his waterboarding exploits and telling as many people as he could that this was nothing to do with Wright:
I talked to craig and this scammer who was fired from nChain is suspected to be involved in this:https://t.co/aLg3lBSwpQ
— Calvin Ayre (@CalvinAyre) May 25, 2020
Ah yes, the famous ‘disgruntled former employee’. Ayre’s incredible accusation has no basis whatsoever in established facts, and is simply an attempt to shift the focus away from Wright, which was quickly picked up by others:
— Martin (@ctblizzard) May 25, 2020
Wright in Legal Peril
The facts of the matter are that Wright is now in serious legal peril. It was bad enough with just one address on the list being accessed, but it was just possible to put this single event down to a hack or something of that nature (including a disgruntled ex-employee).
However, with another 145 addresses now added to the list, serious questions have to be asked of how many Tulip Trust addresses Wright supplied to the court are in fact his. The events of the past week have even caused some staunch supporters to question their faith in Wright and his house built on lies, as if the evidence of the past four years isn’t enough.
