Self-proclaimed Bitcoin founder starts swearing during interview after being asked to show evidence
During a tense TV interview, host Hamish Macdonald of The Sunday Project cursed several times after questioning a computer scientist about his claims that he was the creator of Bitcoin (BTC).
When Macdonald pressed Dr. Craig Wright, a self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin, to present evidence, the interview, which will be shown on Sunday, August 7, broke down, according to a report from Daily mail on August 5.
In a terse reply, Dr. Wright advised Macdonald to “get a law book, and see what the evidence is, and take a course.”
He added:
“And when you come back, and you actually know what the hell you’re talking about, we can have a discussion. Otherwise, you’re just awful.”
The interview turns sour
The premise of the interview had been a debate about how the Internet would eventually replace Silicon Valley, but the heated argument quickly sidetracked the conversation and sent it off in a different direction.
A visibly distressed MacDonald responded to the first statements in the interview by asking:
“Why get upset and start cursing?” to which Dr Wright replied: “I’m Australian and if you’re going to be aw****r, I’ll call you aw****r.”
Dr. Wright is one of a number of people who have been suggested to be the mastermind behind Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym given to the person or persons believed to be behind Bitcoin’s invention.
However, the crypto community is skeptical of the Australian businessman’s claims that he is the only person behind the pseudonym and views his statements with a little caution.
In a blog post he published in 2016, he made the claim for the first time. He also provided evidence in the form of cryptographic keys linked to the identical blocks of Bitcoin that Nakamoto had delivered to a developer named Hal Finney in 2009 as part of the first transaction with the currency.
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Plagiarized doctoral thesis
Furthermore, Finbold reported that the self-proclaimed Satoshi has been accused of plagiarizing a significant portion of his 2017 PhD thesis from Charles Sturt University (CSU).
An anonymous blogger PaintedFrog posted an analysis of Wright’s doctoral dissertation entitled ‘The Quantification of Information System Risk: A Look at Quantitative Responses to Information Security Issues’where the blogger made side-by-side comparisons with the content Wright allegedly plagiarized.
PaintedFrog also added that in most cases Wright “didn’t even bother to change the sentence order.”
Other problems Wright faces
Notably, a London court is hearing a case in which Wright accused cryptocurrency podcaster and blogger Peter McCormack of libel for stating that Wright was not Satoshi and dismissed Wright’s initial testimony as “false in almost all material respects.”
In mid-March, Finbold reported that Wright was ordered to pay $43 million in restitution after being convicted by a federal court of illegally stealing intellectual property from a joint venture he co-founded.
In June 2021, Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum (ETH), accused Wright of impersonating the pseudonymous developer of the flagship cryptocurrency, compared him to the previous president of the United States, Donald Trump, and challenged Wright’s lawyers to sue him.
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