Thread by @kurtwuckertjr

Granath VS Wright Day 2 Master Thread.

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Starting promptly at 9AM. We don't seem to have audio translator just yet. So, missing the opening of opening remarks from Craig's team.

Fixed it.

Halvor Mansaus, notably without a notebook and speaking from openly, advocating for free speech and its power and importance in the general interest.

Mansaus is Wright's lead attorney. Today will be Wright's Defense: Opening Statements.

Mansaus explaining the role of the press, public watch dogs, bloggers and privilege of the press but also obligations in Norway and World Court about balanced presentation of the facts.

"This person is anonymous, so it is difficult to hold him accountable. A person is held to their reputation with what they say, but an anon is not. There was no direct contact between Wright and Granath. This was out of the blue and a targeted attack - encouraging others..."

"This encourages rabid and increasingly toxic attacks becoming acceptable in the culture."

"Wright has been attacked so harshly from so many angles that he has no choice but to retaliate in some way."

"The plaintiff has made considerable changes of his claim very recently. He wants to be acquitted because Craig isn't Satoshi, but that wouldn't change legality."

SIDE NOTE: Manshaus is a fast and passionate speaker. But also jovial. He speaks with a smile.

"Legally speaking, it is an error to say that these tweets are not defamatory. It wouldn't matter if he's Satoshi or not. To say that he's fraudulently 'tried to prove it' is legally problematic..."

"We aren't to determine whether Craig is a fraud. WE ARE HERE TO SEE IF GRANATH HAS DEFAMED WRIGHT."

"There are 3700 pages of evidence submitted by Granath after the deadlines were set. Almost 11,000 pages in total for the whole case - largely blog posts and tweets, as well as stuff from the Kleiman case which has been commented upon by people on social media with opinions."

"We must uphold a standard of truth in assessment of the facts and of the law. Whether Wright is Satoshi or not requires a preponderance of the whole body of evidence. Granath says he outed himself in 2015 is false. The evidence shows Wright tried very hard to stay private."

"Also, moving around company IP was something to be done privately among companies in good faith, and Wright was given no opportunity to see what was written bit WIRED and Giz before it was published."

"Granath said there's no evidence of Wright being Satoshi, but there is! A great many people have participated with Wright during the era when bitcoin was created."

SIDE NOTE: Granath visibly uncomfortable. Rolling his eyes and lightly shaking his head about Craig's claims.

"Most people don't keep their private keys. Most people keep their coins on exchanges and simply use passwords. This is a fact"

Note: Small blockers quietly raging. I can feel it.

Wright has taken the difficult and more ceremonious path. We are given 3 paths of proof to believe.

Matonis and Andresen is instructive.

1: Technical (cryptographic)
2: Social (private knowledge)
3: Steadfastness (they STILL stand by Craig amid all of the negativity)

"It isn't fraud not to document that he was Satoshi. He was trying to be a private character. Wright had proven to people who he wanted to prove to which is his right."

"Per Kleiman case, American discovery is massive. 1.9 MILLION pages of evidence."

"Internet parties did poor research using this public material out of context, but Granath's team seems to have based their case upon this low quality research thus far. Including Gizmodo documents that were stolen/hacked years ago."

"I have explained why these statements are defamatory, but also, they are factually a violation of privacy. Form, context and motivation need to be assessed."

He's going into quotes now.

"Granath is a provocateur. Notably, he calls CoinGeek nearly always a "scam site" for example."

"He gets attention for his harsh words in general. This is the nature of his account even outside of criticisms of Wright."

Granath nodding as Halvor says "Granath has called him a pathetic scammer, mentally ill and a fraud aiming for profit."

SIDE NOTE: Big smile and nodding from Granath. He seems to be signaling a lack of remorse on those points, imo.

Tweets that say "Feel free to join the celebration that Craig Wright is a fraud."

"He's clearly trying to gain clout by attacking Wright."

Side Note: I wonder if Granath knows he's nodding and smiling while hearing his allegedly defamatory tweets being read.

Curiously, Granath was completely stone faced for the whole of yesterday. Cold and calm. This subject matter clearly excites him. Fascinating psychology here.

"We must assume that Hodlonaut was enjoying the rallying of troops that was happening on twitter."

More tweets: "Happy Craig Wright is a Fraud week! Where did Craig Wright go?"

NOTE: Fascinating how much pride there is in toxicity here.

Glad I'm known for "be good to each other..."

Manshaus how explaining the definition of HODL and collectivist strategies to make value go up.

Explaining how BTC people encourage each other to be "rabid, toxic and collectivist toward their goals of price appreciation."

Quote from @hlopez_ asking why toxicity is a good thing among small blockers read in court.

"The goal on twitter is to get messages trending in order to rally messages into the trend by using hashtags, etc... What is the goal here? Craig is committed to BSV, the original implementation of bitcoin - pure and in line with the white paper."

>Granath visibly laughing<

"There's also the Lightning Torch in that era. Jack Dorsey himself, CEO of Twitter, became a follower of Hodlonaut in this era. Dorsey is a big BTC and LN fan as well. He has 5-6 million followers, and the culture was pushing BSV down and pumping BTC/LN up."

SIDE NOTE: Both sides see themselves as David and the other side as Goliath in this case.

It's fascinating how destructive social media has been to the culture, tbh.

"We see Hodlonaut laughing at criticisms across twitter and speaking about Wright buying old bitcoin addresses. Meanwhile, large influencer accounts like Whale Panda and others are piling on to the millions of users of twitter in order to cause harm to Wright."

"From Telegram, March 15-16, "Bitcoin Plebs" Group 404 members. User EndTheFed: "who is in for some toxicity to attack the shitcoin scammers?"

"Plebs see themselves as an army against BSV and other things they see as shitcoins."

"Scrolling down 'let's attack the leaders of scam coins' and 'the thing you bash most' with a picture of BSV."

"More scrolling: 'the best way to extinguish these clowns is to hit exchanges. Delist because no liquidity and they die.'"

"So they're colluding to delist BSV."

Still on TG: "If Binance delists, it's dead. BSV extinction event."

Halvor: "And they laugh!"

Judge asking: BTC people don't want BSV as a competitor?

Halvor: Yes, essentially. There is a commercial motive behind these statements.

"End The Fed explained a long list of tactics and training for how to implement targeted attacks against Faketoshi and staying focused and effective."

Granath attorney objects asking if this is relevant. The Judge said "Yes" And Halvor continues.

"This is a direct consequence of Hodlonaut's campaign. This group was create to make plans for Craig is a Fraud Week, which Hodlonaut created."

Judge: Yes continue.

"Twitter doesn't catch compound words like SCAMTARD, so they're being taught to say things like this in TG."

"Also using a number in the middle of the word to circumvent twitter bullying rules, etc..."

NOTE: Halvor doing a great job explaining the organized culture of bullying from among small blockers toward everyone else.

Quoting from TG: "We must trash BSV at every turn."

He has a picture of Hodlonaut and starting #WeAreAllHodlonaut and starting the CSW Fraud Week.

Halvor: "there is a clear connection between this back room and the coordinated attacks against CSW."

"Notably, Hodlonaut and CSW hadn't ever met at this point. And how can someone like CSW respond to coordinated and high volume hate speech such as this? It's overwhelming and conducted by anonymous people."

BREAK TIME

Back!

Halvor: "Lightning Torch: explaining that it's an L2 that has been lukewarm, but Hodlonaut spread spread awareness and got people like Dorsey, Adam Back and Reed Hoffman interested publicly and participating."

"Andreas Antonopoulos got the LN Torch. You remember, he was Kleiman's bitcoin expert. He participated as well. Hodlonaut is a Tom cat with a light grin (explaining the profile pic.)

SIDE NOTE: Funny, Granath actually looks like the cat. Does anyone know the history of the cat profile pic?

Halvor: "Let's look at his interest in BSV."

Paraphrased from Tweets: "BSV never had a purpose. Never will."

He says "BSV Retards and calls them mentally ill."

@_Kevin_Pham mentioned with a link to video about toxicity (might be MY video from back in the day)

"People climbing on the BSV clown car can't claim ignorance. Those who have BSV in their names should be blocked to construct an echo-chamber."

Responding to @bitcoinkaiser tweets quoted. Too fast to type it all.

More Tweets: "BSV makes you either ignorant or malicious."

"Daily reminder not to engage with Faketoshi or BSV shills."

"It takes a lot for me to block people, but BSV in your handle is too much."

Halvor explaining the boiler room nature of things like "another day, another hodl" and the extreme encouragement for people to hodl no matter what.

He's explaining commercial nature of attacks against BSV.

Halvor: "Granath has a financial motive. That's ok, but we must note it."

The thing that matters is behavior and the nature of the evidence.

Switching to discussing the story of Craig.

Australian, interest in computers, crypto, Japanese culture, etc... He likes school, research, degrees...

We need to ask where Craig would be if he wasn't outed and harassed by people. He would be writing and working on projects.

"It's difficult to hold anons accountable, but they are NOT less accountable just because it's difficult."

"There was a proposal for amicable settlement."

"the bitcoin protocol was launched January 2009."

Explaining mining to the judge.

"Genesis is the first block. The anchor. All txs after that. A digital transaction system. Public ledger, but private users who can transact without intermediary..."

Discussing the nature of forks, etc...

"BSV is an attempt to restore the bitcoin protocol."

"Court should know Satoshi left admin rights to Andresen who became lead dev and know bitcoin the best outside of Satoshi."

"Wright learned to code at a young age..."

O'Hagan quote: "2 great influences: Ron Lynam the spy because of his computers and such..."

Halvor: "Craig learned to hack and build firewalls and other security systems that got him into digital forensics."

Quoting about Craig's interest in Japan and such...

Tips appreciated handcash.me/kurt

"Talking about how bitcoin is the phoenix that rises" and tells the Ash Ketchum story. "Ash" in Japanese is "Satoshi."

Explaining Craig's IT and CyberSec career in Australia.

Talking about Craig working for the Aussie stock exchange and creating DeMorgan and built an ISP...

Then his work in casinos, BDO, building multiple businesses and then launching the genesis block.

Going over Craig's management of software dev teams, etc... Lots of accolades.

SIDE NOTE: Halvor is very, very good. Consistently strong story-telling, personality and organization of notes, etc...

Frankly, it's the highest level exposition I've seen in trial for Craig. I think this is very effective opening statements.

Granath looking nervous/irritable

Halvor continuing to explain the Lynams (Craig's Uncle and Grandfather) and their work on cryptography in Japan during WW2 and the secret spy sort of work. It's relevant because of Craig's interest in cryptography as a major influence, etc...

Explaining Craig teaching police and military about security and such. Talking about Centrabet, Lassetter's casino, etc...

EASTER EGG FROM KURT: The poker software in bitcoin looks like poker software from where? Hmmmm

Quoting from interview with Don Lynam in regards to the bitcoin white paper. I believe this is from the Kleiman deposition.

Explaining how Don Lynam's computer got taken over to mine bitcoin early (maybe first?) and it was beating up his "pretty hot" computer.

Bringing up Max Lynam (Don's son) who I believe may be a potential witness later in the week.

Side Note: I wonder if the small blockers have ever heard this story. Not noting any body language from their reporters, but Granath and attorneys whispering amid story of when it was all launched and a very detailed story about the launch of bitcoin, generally.

Halvor explaining how Craig works, writes papers and solves computer science problems, as well as the kind of work that went into bitcoin.

"Dave Kleiman was often his editor..."

Genesis block reference to the Times:

"Timestamping to show no premine."

"Granath mentioned pricing between BTC/BSV as a relevant metric, but wasn't bitcoin valuable even before it had a price? Originalists believed it had value as a tool."

"Gavin Andresen noted that the private conversations with Craig from the Satoshi era were important to him. They had an intimate work relationship that Craig was happy to recall. Andresen also submitted these emails to the court under subpoena for Kleiman case."

"Andresen had a very strong IT and software background... Created the bitcoin faucet... Funded it for $50 in exchange for thousands of bitcoins... Ultimately, Satoshi gave the keys to Andresen when he disappeared."

Lunch time. Back soon.

And we're back! Talking about the deposition of Gavin Andresen.

Halvor: "Andresen's testimony and experiences are EXTREMELY important."

"Andresen was extremely skeptical to begin with, but in sharing code and sharing discussion of the code, he came to understand and trust Satoshi."

Halvor explaining to the judge that Satoshi's email exchanges with Andresen were vast, and that Andresen was convinced of Craig on those grounds as an aside to the cryptographic proof that he was shown.

Halvor explaining RPC to the Judge now.

"The point is that Satoshi didn't understand RPC deeply, but Andresen did, and they conferred over its implementation in bitcoin."

Explaining patches to the software and more messages between Gavin and Satoshi.

Andresen data dump. Great stuff, but way too much to type.

Andresen on Satoshi: "Brilliant and talented, but a sloppy coder."

Discussing Dorian Nakamoto, and how he is not Satoshi.

Discussing how the code is clearly written by two different people.

Andresen saying they use different syntax and notation methods in an article from 2014.

Moving to 2015. Discussion of emails between Wright and Ayre for bitcoin IP for use in casinos and such as well as research and market analysis.

Halvor: "There's nothing here talking about announcing Craig as Satoshi. Rather, it's a discussion on how to write the life story - even considering hiring O'Hagen - but the doxing happened amid discussions for a much more elaborate roll-out of the life story."

Halvor saying "nobody wanted a self-dox as Granath stated. they wanted this to be something much, much bigger."

Doing the timeline around the doxing and Craig's move to London. Emphatically: "Wright was not ready to be outed AT ALL!"

Early journalists who saw the story: "They were speculating that they believed Ira was the leaker and that insiders from Craig's companies were turned to informants."

This has been many people's take on it when they see the evidence.

"Craig had seemingly lost control of his own company(ies)."

Judge surprised and confirming WIRED & Gizmodo published the same day. Makes a visible surprised face like she realized there's something uniquely bizarre about the coordinated doxing on that fact.

Fascinating!

Judge clearly more and more interested in Craig's story as it's being told here - asking questions about very curious details.

Halvor continues: "After some back and forth, Craig proceeded to prove himself to John Matonis."

Explaining the nature of Bitcoin Foundation.

Discussing how Matonis "just met Satoshi" quote was fascinated.

Explaining the key used was block 1 and 9.

Matonis also impressed with Wright's vast knowledge of cryptography and the systems surrounding bitcoin, etc...

Pivot to O'Hagen reading: "He was mildly resented having to prove anything..."

Craig typed: "Here I am, Andrew"

And said "Here's the bit I hoped to bury."

Before proceeding to show the digital signature.

O'Hagen: "He was annoyed and saying his enemies will say he killed Satoshi."

Craig: "I've seen Reddit. Those people won't be satisfied."

Reading Matonis email to Andresen about the invite to the proof sessions.

He says "Wright is the real deal"
Gavin was a skeptic: "I'm not flying all the way to London for 1 piece of evidence."

Halvor: This implies the signature is NOT proof of identity. Gavin wanted multiple proofs.

"Interesting to note Gavin not trusting crypto"

Now going into great detail about the Andresen story.

Gavin let Wright use his own laptop, but did the due diligence of getting a new laptop and doing it again. And then Craig pacing around the room fighting with himself about giving Gavin the keys to dissect forensically.

He had demonstrated he was Satoshi, but Matthews and McGregor didn't like that it couldn't be 100% without handing over the whole keys to the kingdom. Too much risk.

Tension was unbelievable in the room.

Fresh computer straight out of the box.

Craig was emotional because he didn't like losing his privacy.

McGregor convinced Craig "Gavin is dedicated to your invention; the brother your need right now. Nobody else can be this for you."

Long moments of silence.

Craig asked to see Ramona (his wife.)

She told him two words: "Do it"

The signature failed! They forgot he put "CSW" at the end, and that made it work. Craig burst into tears and they shook hands at the revelation, and they went out for fish and chips.

Gavin's response immediately after. Halvor quoting from this video and explaining that it wasn't just the cryptography that proves it for him. He didn't trust the crypto as much as he trusted his personal tests of specific knowledge:

Moving on to the BBC signing after a break.

Sartre'ing up again... Lol.

Sorry. Long day...

Jean Paul Sartre: Signing and significance. Discussing identity and philosophy.

Explaining the nature of the Andresen and Matonis sessions, and their significance in light of a few things.

Really good stuff from Halvor.

Explaining Electrum was used on Windows 7 and 10 for the different signings in the first session. "Yesterday, we saw Electrum say nobody downloaded the file (to debunk Craig)... But we will come back to that."

"Same day as the Sartre blog post, Gavin said 'I was NOT hacked.'"

But Bitcoin Core treated it as if he had been hacked, and so Gavin's keys were revoked, and he was removed from his position as Bitcoin Lead Developer because of proximity and refusal to renege on Craig Wright

Halvor continuing to deeply explain the details around Andresen, Matonis and BBC circumstances.

SIDE NOTE: Very refreshing to hear the story told in one setting and with clarity.

Reminder to subscribe and hit the alert bell for my stream this evening:

Halvor:the criticisms that came were based on Wright not being *their* Satoshi. He didn't look how they wanted him to look and believe how they wanted him to believe.

Wired and Gizmodo added addenda explaining Craig's claims are baseless, etc... The culture flipped very quickly.

Gavin: "Sitting here, it's more likely than not that Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto."

Back to Electrum saying they didn't see a download to a UK IP address on the day of the Andresen signing.

They're assuming he would have downloaded source and signatures and compiled after verifying signatures (like a cypherpunk would).

Buuut... this makes some assumptions.

Curiously, Electrum felt the need to comment on something that didn't involve them just like so many journalists that tell a snippet of the story without the complete context

It is entirely possible to download executable files from electrum.org, and they ignore this.

SIDE NOTE: Magnus has changed from stone cold and sitting forward to sitting back and touching his face and hair a lot and sighing big breaths. He is currently rubbing his cheeks hard with both hands like massaging his jaw.

Strikes me as anxious.

Halvor explaining extensively why Electrum cannot be sure if a download occurred or not.

Remember, in law, you have to prove 100% or else presumption of innocence goes to the defendant - which is Craig.

I'm also surprised more people don't realize Granath sued CSW.

Now Judge is confused about the specifics of the Electrum download situation.

She doesn't understand why the Electrum developers are communicating over DM through Reddit so proactively against Wright.

Judge: "Why are they so afraid this has been compromised?"

He goes on to explain cypherpunk culture briefly but clearly, but goes on to point to Granath and explain how this is an example of how "it's never enough for these people." No matter what Wright does, there's an edge case about how it was done that negates it all for them.

"We need to TRULY take control of the fact that we don't know where *most* of this evidence originated or how it leaked, how he was doxed or who is attacking him or why no proof is good enough. Why is the internet SO HELPFUL to Craig's enemies and critics at all levels?"

"What gets lost is that almost no piece of evidence against him was collected formally, but the evidence created by the internet are treated as facts."

He's now showing ATO docs from Gizmodo (but I can't see them) and questioning their authenticity.

Halvor: Explaining now how the evidence from Kleiman showed the incredible breadth of evidence from family, friends, colleagues, etc...

It isn't one thing that points it out. It's many, many things, and we strongly disagree with the plaintiff that the documents are manipulated.

Why? KPMG ignores how evidence was purposely hidden during the era before he was doxed. Craig was attempting to hide out of discomfort with risk of being Satoshi.

This is why there are so many formats and such an incredible volume of files of evidence.

"Many files were clearly scanned, which makes their metadata irrelevant, for example, but KPMG makes no mention of this as a note. This strikes me as very funny while they claim that documents are clearly fraudulent. Of course, the dates don't work. They're scans."

"Look at this one. This is typed on typewriter! Did KPMG note that this must have been typed then scanned? No."

"It's potentially the same scanner, but this isn't noted. Was it scanned by the same law office for this case or a previous case? We don't know."

"Also, they don't define what they mean anywhere in their report by 'manipulated' nor do they say who could have done the manipulating - leaving out any expert interpretation of the implications."

"what is metadata? It is lower level data that tells details about the nature of a file like what software created and when changes have been made."

If you open a document in Word, the metadata is tainted.

Continuing to explain other aspects of digital forensics at a pretty high level. Halvor is very sharp!

No pivoting to expert witnesses.

BDO witness to debunk KPMG. Ami Klin to explain Craig's autism, Lynam on Craigs uncommon work ethic and Satoshi evidence...

Explaining "Wright has an uncommon way of communicating which can potentially be problematic without understanding the way he hears, processes and responds to communication in general."

"We are almost finished."

"The core of our case is about severe accusations about criminal actions by anons and the use of anon to encourage others to celebrate coordinated bullying."

"Toxicity and being rabid is the cornerstone of the culture he wants to usher in. This is unlawful!"

"Nobody should go out, as Magnus has done, with the goal of calling any man 'pathetic.' Not as hodlonaut, not as himself..."

"Wright offered settlement. Granath said no, and made no counter. That makes me wonder, 'why are we even here today?'"

"But he has put himself in a very weak position to recover costs. We didn't want for that to happen. We tried to end this, but the extent of the case is curious, and we will address that curiosity in our closing remarks at the end of the trial."

"and it is 4PM in some seconds, and I pride myself on finishing exactly on time. That's all."

Side Note: LMAO right when the clock ticks 4.

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