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Cathal Morrow's avatar

Lovely newsletter this week. What a story!

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David G.W. Birch's avatar

So fun to read this and remember my bit part in this story, because Rory called me (at 4am, he didn’t know I was in New York) to ask for my opinion on the story. I told him I’d read up and get back to him. I set about googling and trying to understand what exactly had or had not been demonstrated in Rory’s presence.

Now, the reason I was in New York was that I was atteninding Consensus 2016, a major cryptocurrency conference that is now primarily remembered for my public disclosure of my privates (sic) key management strategy. Anyway, I showered and dressed and ambled down to the Green Room to get ready for my session. As I went I was greeted with a cheerful “Hello Dave” from Vitalik Buterin, a very nice guy but also a genius who had actually invented a cryptocurrency. So I asked him what he thought about Craig’s Crypto Claim and he told me that it was (I paraphrase) bollocks. I dutifully reported his opinion back to Rory in London and went off to my session.

The general consensus at Consensus was that the journalists had been tricked. Indeed, as Rory writes, within hours of Craig Wright publishing details of his evidence, the “proof” was being torn apart at a New York crypto conference.

Happy days.

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