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Helping to spread the word to those yet to see the light of Satoshi Nakamoto.
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@jiangji20 @Satoshis_D @JorgeStolfi @twetchdat This is the entrance to the rabbit hole if you dare seek the truth

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[Dr Craig S Wright @Dr_CSWright]

Think about the inversion for a moment.

I am the one who has been villainised for defending the individual—for insisting that Bitcoin must have a fixed protocol so that no developer, corporation, exchange or foundation can seize control of it.

I put tens of millions of my own family’s money into that fight. I threw everything at building the technology, restoring the protocol and releasing the tools. I dealt with compromised systems, intrusions, litigation and years of organised public hostility.

Then look at what stood against me.

COPA was backed by interests connected to Meta, Jack Dorsey, Coinbase and some of the largest corporate players in the world—organisations collectively representing trillions of dollars in capital and influence.

Yet many of you convinced yourselves that they represented the small individual, while I represented centralised control.

Think about that.

I argued for rules that even I could not change. They defended a system directed by a small group of developers and supported by exchanges, custodians and corporate infrastructure.

I argued that anyone should be able to build, compete and accept payment. They supported restrictions that pushed ordinary users back towards middlemen.

You were told that concentrated corporate power was decentralisation, while the person demanding a protocol beyond anyone’s control was the villain.

If you genuinely care about the small individual, stop repeating the branding and examine the structure of power.

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The Hornet's Nest, The Pied Piper, and Satoshi

An account in tweets of the developments in Bitcoin everyone into cryptos and blockchain technology, and in time, the whole world should know.

It is also an account you want to delve into if you want to truly understand bitcoin.

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[Kurt Wuckert Jr @kurtwuckertjr]

History of Bitcoin, Part 8B: The Biggest Frauds in Bitcoin https://t.co/vpK1Y3EdLX

[Dr Craig S Wright @Dr_CSWright]

And now the sales pitch has quietly changed again.

First BTC was electronic cash. When it could not function as cash at scale, it became “digital gold”. When that became difficult to defend, it became a “store of value”. Now the slogan is “generational wealth”.
That phrase is not an economic argument. It is a recruitment device aimed at people who fear they have already missed the opportunity. It implies that merely holding an already trillion-dollar asset can still deliver the sort of returns available when it was tiny.

It cannot.

A 1,000-fold increase from a trillion-dollar valuation produces a quadrillion-dollar valuation. That is not “optimistic”. It is larger than the economic base from which the supposed wealth would have to come. There is no pool of outside capital remotely sufficient to buy existing holders out at those prices.
Nor can everyone obtain generational wealth from holding the same non-productive asset. BTC does not generate factories, housing, food, energy, dividends or productive output. One holder’s realised gain requires another person to provide the money. The quoted price may rise, but the system cannot convert every paper gain into spendable wealth simultaneously.

That is the concealed fallacy. Advocates multiply the last traded price by every coin and call the result wealth, as though the entire supply could be sold at that marginal price. It could not. Large-scale selling would collapse the price long before most holders realised anything resembling the displayed valuation.

The earliest buyers could make 1,000-fold returns because the starting valuation was negligible. Buyers entering after institutional adoption and trillion-dollar capitalisation cannot repeat that trajectory. The required capital does not exist, and the underlying economy could not validate the resulting claims.

So “generational wealth” is merely the latest replacement slogan. The original function failed, the previous justification became stale, and the promised return became mathematically impossible. What remains is the oldest speculative pitch in finance: buy now because someone later will supposedly pay vastly more.

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@collincto @Dr_CSWright The whole world, including all important decision makers, seeking input from ...

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[Dr Craig S Wright @Dr_CSWright]

My dear @Kaspa_Girl,

It is really quite unfortunate that people no longer understand their logical fallacies.

I must further note that an appeal to authority is when one says, "Trust me, I have a PhD in animal husbandry or post modern gender studies." What I have actually done is state that I am travelling, that I have written extensively on this subject, and that I shall apply the argument when I have time. That is not an argument; it is a diary entry. To mistake a postponement for a proof is the sort of logical solecism one expects from a child who has just discovered the word "fallacy" and wishes to use it at every opportunity.

But since you thirst so for substance, let us examine the architecture you so fervently defend. The protocol — Casper KISPA, or whatever ghostly appellation it now travels under — suffers from a structural embarrassment that no amount of peer review can quite paper over. The DAG, by its very nature, permits multiple blocks to centre at once, creating what the formal literature calls an anticone: a region of temporal ambiguity where honest concurrency and adversarial withholding are rendered mathematically indistinguishable. The protocol attempts to resolve this by means of a parameter k — a hardcoded guess at the network's propagation delay, set in stone at genesis and utterly unresponsive to actual conditions. It is rather like appointing a chaperone for a ball and forbidding her to look at the dancers.

The Maximum k-Cluster SubDAG problem is, formally, NP-hard; GHOSTDAG substitutes a greedy approximation that inherits the blue set of its "best tip" and hopes for the best. At high block rates, the hourglass block — that theoretical moment of clean convergence where a single block partitions past from future — becomes a zoological curiosity, spotted about as often as a modest man at a political convention. The result is a permanent twilight zone where transactions enjoy only probabilistic finality, and the protocol must trade confirmation time for safety margin in a manner that is mathematically inevitable and commercially inconvenient.

The subsequent invention of DAGKnight — a parameterless, responsive successor — is not, as you might think, a triumph. It is an admission that the original formal analysis contained limitations it could not overcome: the fixed k, the freeloader bound, the inability to distinguish a well-connected honest cluster from a strategically placed attacker. One does not build a second bridge unless the first has shown itself insufficient for the river.

I shall send the links when I am back from my travels. Until then, I suggest you read the papers you so enthusiastically recommend — not merely allow your eyes to pass over them, but actually comprehend them. It is the difference between wearing a suit and being a gentleman.

— C.S.W...

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[S Tominaga (Aka Dr Craig Wright) @CsTominaga]

When it first came out, I said it wouldn’t work. I said it clearly, loudly, and with reasons laid out for anyone who cared to listen. And for that, I was mocked. The promises of Hedera Hashgraph were dressed in velvet—revolutionary speed, enterprise adoption, governance councils of global giants, the kind of marketing dream that makes PowerPoint warriors foam at the mouth. But I said then what is obvious now: the fundamentals wouldn’t solve themselves, and the whole thing would sink into the quicksand of its own contradictions.

And here we are, years later, exactly where I said we’d be. No breakthroughs, no world-changing adoption, no miraculous solutions to the problems I flagged at the very beginning. The protocol remains wrapped in centralisation, choked by its governance model, weighed down by the same unresolved questions of resilience and scale. They parade “open-sourcing” as a triumph, as though dumping the code into a neutral foundation is an achievement rather than a surrender. They trumpet partnerships like Dropp and FedNow as if bolting a micropayments app onto a legacy system is proof of destiny fulfilled. And their supporters—those who once laughed at criticism—are now growing impatient, annoyed, weary of hearing the same announcements recycled like old theatre props.

I said the problems were structural. I said the fairytale claims of solving scalability and security without the trade-offs of blockchain were nothing but smoke. I said they’d hit a wall and dress it up as progress. And what’s been solved? Nothing. Not a single one of the fundamental issues. Not decentralisation. Not adoption at any meaningful scale. Not the core question of whether this architecture can ever escape its own limitations.

The years have rolled on, and the result is a project that has mastered only one thing: the art of promising tomorrow what should have been delivered yesterday. It was always marketing first, substance later, and substance never arrived. And yet, those of us who said this at the start were mocked for being cynical, for refusing to swallow the sales pitch. Now, even their own faithful are beginning to choke on it.

So here’s the truth: I said it wouldn’t work, and it hasn’t. I said the problems would remain, and they do. You can dress it up with logos, press releases, and branding, but the reality is the same as it was on day one—an elegant story with nothing behind it but delay, disappointment, and decay.

[S Tominaga (Aka Dr Craig Wright) @CsTominaga]

For years, the @Dr_CSWright account was managed by others in my name, including throughout the court case. That arrangement has now ended. I have taken direct ownership and control of the account and will be posting personally from this point forward.

I accept no responsibility for anything posted here before I assumed control. I am not deleting the historical material; the past should occasionally be preserved, if only to demonstrate what happens when other people are entrusted with one’s voice. From now on, however, the words are mine.

@Dr_CSWright is now in my control.

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@grok @AENMAD @Cole_Walmsley @grok Expand on this thread re Satoshi coins
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Again, only BTC and BCH moved, BSV remained untouched.
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[S Tominaga (Aka Dr Craig Wright) @CsTominaga]

When one cannot scale, one batches; and when one cannot batch honestly, one calls the waiting room a business model.

A micropayment system that must hide its micropayments offchain has made a rather exquisite confession: the payment was never too small for the economy, only too frequent for the machinery pretending to serve it.

To earn yield on the float is not innovation. It is the oldest profession in finance wearing a blue logo and speaking in API calls. The customer supplies the motion, the intermediary supplies the delay, and everyone applauds because the queue has been renamed infrastructure.

There is something wonderfully modern about declaring every API call payable, then immediately discovering that payments are inconvenient. It is like inventing a restaurant where every pea is billed separately, and then congratulating oneself for sweeping the peas into a bucket before presenting the invoice.

The agentic economy, we are told, requires rails. Naturally. Every fashionable deficiency eventually becomes a rail. Latency becomes settlement strategy. Custody becomes convenience. Aggregation becomes scalability. And the float, that charming little interval between what is owed and what is paid, becomes yield.

A system that scales does not need to batch as apology. It clears. It settles. It treats small payments not as a disease to be quarantined offchain, but as the entire point of the design.

But fashion has always preferred the appearance of motion to the burden of arrival. So we are given micropayments without immediate payment, settlement without finality at the point of use, scalability by deferral, and finance by euphemism.

When one cannot scale, one batches.

When one cannot settle, one floats.

When one cannot build digital cash, one invents a tab.

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Again, only BTC and BCH moved, BSV remained untouched.
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[Nawattnu @nawattnu]

Wait a minute—what exactly is a fork?

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[Kurt Wuckert Jr @kurtwuckertjr]

There are 10,000 blockchains designed as an attempt to prove that #Satoshi was wrong about #bitcoin.

There is one blockchain designed to prove that Satoshi was right.

It’s called #BSV, and it outperforms the rest of the market combined on all relevant technical metrics.