For what it's worth I haven't ruled out, for myself, the possibility that Craig Wright was close to the Satoshi collaboration. I can't explain why he wouldn't just do the simple thing and prove it, nor can I explain why all the doctored evidence is floating around.
Despite these gross inconsistencies, as I do more and more reading on the topic, I still think there's a possibility he was involved in some way at some point in time. HOWEVER....
What's very clear to me it's that the flesh and blood 2019 Craig Wright is not the same in contour or temperament as the Satoshi that is preserved in writing.
Interestingly, from my frame of reference, both men might be fictive creations of the internet for all I know. Just because Craig exists in my contemporary timeline, does not make him any more "real" to me than Satoshi.
I have only ever interacted with both as mediated sprites, as information streams in analogue wave patterns of pixels on a screen. I can no more reach out and touch Craig as I can Satoshi.
So in this sense I feel like I am fully qualified to compare the subjective experience of both men as creations. And as such they are not the same. And they continue to get more and more different with time.
The #CraigWrightIsAFraud campaign is a much about our right, as Bitcoiners, to stake out a decision of the Satoshi we want, and for that person to be completely distinct from the Satoshi that might actually have been.
When we use avatars online, we free ourselves from any definition tied to our Earthly, corporeal, messy and indigent selves. This is an act of control and emancipation. But in return, we lose claim to the persona that we create in the process.
Our avatars, Satoshi's included, become communal property the longer they are maintained. They take up residence as purely imaginary creatures. That is the trade that we make. We become better selves, unencumbered.
But in the process we relinquish any rights and privileges that accrue to the avatars, or any claim on the good deeds we have done in their name.
I can foresee a universe in which Craig finally produces proof that he was involved in the creation of Bitcoin or even that he has access to Satoshi's coins.
I can just as easily forsee a universe in which he utilizes threats, extortion, and litigation as his is only means to promulgate the fantasy that he somehow has an exclusive claim on Satoshi's vision.
In either case it is both vital and also inevitable that he will lose. I've experienced quite enough of Craig to say with certainty that he is not Satoshi. And I have as much right to make this claim as he does.
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