I always wonder about people like Wright... how does such a brain work? Why would one invest so much of his life and reputation on brazen lies and forgeries? He's been caught so many times, surely nobody can take him seriously anymore, it's over, time to move on - but here he is, forging emails and logs, digging deeper and deeper, turning his life more and more into a farce. Why?
There's pretty broad consensus that Craig Wright is a pathological liar. And I'm not using that as an idiom for "dishonest person", I mean it in the psychiatric term of art sense [0]: he probably has an actual compulsion to lie stemming from some kind of psychological damage, which doesn't stop even when he's caught red-handed (he just invents new even more outrageous lies, even when that's nakedly against his own self-interest). This is confirmed not just by all his behavior re: Bitcoin, but his own mother said at one point he has been like this his whole life. It's. In earlier days of Bitcoin it was causing actual problems, but these days everyone treats him as a carnival amusement and nothing more.
A bunch of bitcoin developers are still facing lawsuits from him, and it still requires a ton of attention from them and is causing them anguish. He may not keep launching lawsuits against random community members, but one of them still has one appeal case and one separate lawsuit against him, for having been mean to him on Twitter.
It's true that most people consider Wright a silly clown these days, but the chilling effect against Bitcoin development is hard to quantify and, I think, wholly real. This is why his latest loss makes today a good day.
I've known a pathological liar. The thing is because people tend to default to trusting, especially because pathological liars will lie about things most reasonable people would not expect anyone to lie about, they will get away with it for a good amount of time (varying by how good they are at it). But their credibility in a given group quickly crumbles once one or two lies are exposed. Often they will then move on somewhere else where they repeat the progress.
From watching the trial, it does seem to be an innate behavior for him, effortlessly spinning "plausible" stories to account for everything he's challenged on, that would sound convincing to somebody without the technical knowledge to understand what he's talking about.
I haven't watched it but surely, hopefully pathological lying in court can get someone in real trouble regarding perjury instead of just the case being lost
I am continually amazed when I see some large scam unravel and lo and behold the perpetrators were the same people from a previous scam of recent memory. They do it over and over because for a time it works. My current favorite and possibly all time best is the guys behind tether. Every single one of them with a dubious past linked to scams.
"He's been caught so many times, surely nobody can take him seriously anymore, it's over, time to move on..."
Ha, wouldn't it be funny if Wright actually had the last laugh and that his claim that he's Satoshi Nakamoto was meant to have holes so that he would be discredited.
The whole saga of Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin is so odd and unbelievable and fraught with so many open-ended questions one has to wonder what's true and what's not. The only thing for certain is that Bitcoin is real and that someone actually invented it.
Why would Satoshi Nakamoto bother obfuscate facts and hide himself, what would be his motive and what would he achieve by so acting? Even if unlikely it's completely plausible that Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto and that his seemingly shoddy claims about being him is actually part two of some strange hoax that he's cooked up.
Unlikely for sure, but if he is Satoshi Nakamoto then his place in history will be assured for certain, he'll be remembered for a double whammy that'll never be forgotten: the genius of Bitcoin and block chain cryptocurrency, and the biggest king-sized hoax/con job of all time.
Clearly Wright is smart but he could be smarter than we give him credit for. Wright's ego may be such that he wants an assured high place in history, if so then what better way to achieve that than to act as he has done?
Eventually the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto will be revealed and someone will have that last laugh.
The active steps to disguise the truth are hard to understand. Maybe some sort of brain damage? Or maybe a pathological disorder that I don't understand.
However, if I try to assume a good intent, here's what I come up with:
CW knows he is not Satoshi and his case is laughable. However, by chance he happens to be in a unique position (relative to everyone else) where as long as he pushes his case, he keeps attention on the mystery of Satoshi . Maybe that is his goal all along, and his calculations show that he increases the odds of the true creator being revealed by pushing his false claims.
I mean, the anonymity of Satoshi is puzzling. BitCoin is the only major modern invention with an anonymous creator, AFAIK. I guess the most bothering aspect of the whole thing is not that I don't know who Satoshi is, it's that I know there are people out there who do know (maybe in the dozens, hundreds, or low thousands). It's annoying that there are state secrets like that. So if that is CW's intent behind all his puzzling immature actions, then there's an interesting argument to consider that his actions might have a positive ends.
