Monday 26 February 2018

Craig S Wright's email to Dave Kleiman is provably false


In the infamous "leak" published by gizmodo and supposedly outing Craig Wright as Satoshi, there is an email that - if true - would be a real bomb.it is dated march 12th 2008 and it reads:I need your help editing a paper I am going to release later this year. I have been working on a new form of electronic money. Bit cash, Bitcoin...You are always there for me Dave. I want you to be part of it all.I cannot release it as me. GMX, Vistomail and Tor. I need your help and I need a version of me to make this work that is better than me.Craig( http://bit.ly/2ow2idl )This mail wants to show that the early idea of bitcoin came from Wright to Kleiman, and not the other way around.Needless to say, it is extremely suspect.One thing I have found is that not only it is suspect, but it is provably false.The domain information-defense.com from which this email supposedly originates (the sender is craig.wright@information-defense.com ) was only registered by Wright on jan 23rd 2009, when he registered the Australian company "Information Defense PTY".BTW, this was just a couple weeks after the blockchain started, and this company is somehow the predecessor of the similarly named American company "W & K Info Defence Ltd" controlled by Kleiman and later passed back to Wright.The fact is, I believe "Information Defense PTY" is indeed related to bitcoin mining, but I think it's pretty likely that Wright forged that email in order to establish a priority over Kleiman.That domain wasn't his in march 2008.Gizmodo explains the problem saying:pointing to the likelihood that its registration lapsed and was later renewed, which would explain the discrepancy( http://bit.ly/2BVTG78 )but this just does not hold, in light of an historical whois searchOn Aug 25, 2007 the registrant was a "John W#####ck, 26 New Lane S####n, NY 11784-3304 US" and expiry date was 15-Mar-2008. (edited to protect privacy of previous owner)On may 27th, 2008 the domain was listed in a list of domains in pending-delete state: http://bit.ly/2ESNxvw domain probably expired, and on Jun 1, 2008 the domain owner was "eNom, Inc. on behalf of eNom, Inc. Customer TBD eNom Customer TBD eNom Customer (legal@enom.com)"Enom is a registrar, who had a "back-ordering" service for expired domains" this appears to be an ownership used by Enom for "domain tasting" ( http://bit.ly/2BVTGUG )Only on jan 23rd 2009 the domain was bought by Wright (presumably he got it from eNom) and shortly later archive.org shows a site for the first time: http://bit.ly/2ESNyQ6, I think that email is a provable forgery.For the skepticals: the historical whois of the domain can be ordered for $49 from domaintools.com . I am not going to publish the report's PDF because its copyright status is unclear. via /r/Bitcoin http://bit.ly/2BVTHrI

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