Oddbean

For context re: Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre and why there should be no mercy. My life changed completely on March 29th, 2019. Almost five years ago now. I had made several tweets, warning people about Craig Wright, and making my opinion about him clear. A matter of very public interest. I was sent a legal letter on twitter DM, where it was made clear that I either had to apologize and acknowledge Craig as Satoshi, or they would file a libel case against me in UK. When I didn't comply, Craig and Calvin put a public $5000 bounty on my identity and then firmly doxxed me after finding out who I was. They proceeded to put private intelligence surveillance on me, that have tried to gain access to my social circle, both online and physically. Presence in 100s of groups. Monitoring my house. Producing regular, detailed reports on all my activity. Travelled where I travelled and so on. And god knows what else. This is still going on today. I have been continuosly smeared and lied about on social media and in Coingeek, the publication owned by Calvin. Threatened directly/personally with bankruptcy and worse by Calvin and his followers on twitter, with my real name, on countless occasions. Anonymous phone calls with indirect threats. My dad was fighting against cancer when this all started. I was dealing with constant legal pressure and threats throughout his fight. When he finally died late 2020, the legal pressure was at a peak and my funding situation was uncertain. I've had to give up tons of private communication in discovery, to prove I had not been behind "an organized and vicious campaign against Craig." I've had to turn down professional opportunities, since a good percentage of my bandwidth has been continuously occupied with defending myself legally. The amount of legal letters, hearings, appeals, judgments etc are beyond belief. I've lived since 2019, with the constant knowledge that my house and belongings are on the line, and Craig's stated goal of bankrupting his enemies would be reality if I lost. All the while I've tried to, and largely managed, to shield my child and family as well as possible, but I know all of this has put stress on them as well. No mercy for these people. Only Welcome to Law.

Stress or regret. Life always presents us with this choice. You could have lied and been free of this burden 5 years ago, but you chose the stressful path. In the end… 5 years of stress will be worth it compared to a lifetime of regret. Even though the burden was heavy, you chose well brother.

You and peter are very strong. Respect 🙏 I don’t even think you can call them people. I hope you can focus on all the positive things again and enjoy life how it should be. 🧘‍♂️☀️💪🏞️💫

The UK is sadly infamous for "libel tourism" for exactly this reason, it is way too easy to use libel laws for fear and intimidation here and way too costly to defend yourself. You're effectively put in a situation where if you're sued for libel you must prove your innocence. The real kicker is this is after libel law was reformed in 2013 to try and stop this. Made fuck all difference as this story demonstrates.

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it seems to me like they have got ways to fingerprint you in such a way that every action you take that touches their systems has a nontrivial probability of matching to you they are gathering all the info, your ip addresses, your text, your habits of speech, your frequently used things, your interests, your social network it's fucking psycho how much they are stalking us all

it's almost impossible to avoid it now... i mean, you practically are gonna need to create identities that always parse your inputs through an AI that is specialised in avoiding correlation at this point what satoshi did in 2009 in extremely hard for anyone to do now, most of us have a very detailed online fingerprint that can be used to generate recognisers that catch even some of the most trivial things it's beyond human capability to really filter this stuff if you ask me, unless you are einstein level genius psychopath hacker (which doesn't exist i think because to be that clever you usually can't also be psycho, hacking is a very creative business)

I'm so sorry you are dealing with all these trauma for so long. And i am truly sorry you lost your dad. man my heart breaks for you. re CW and Calvin, I hope peter mccormack's win against CW might carry some influence as they have the prior case thingy. when this is over, and hopefully really soon in your favour, I am rooting for your recovery from all of this.

Man I feel real bad for ya and what you and family have been through in this and lost opportunities to boot. So glad you were able to muster the courage and stand strong. You deserve the greatest respect.

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I'm really starting to think Paul LaRoux is Satoshi, and that Craig has access to the keys but can't decrypt them. I think big blocks is ideal in many ways, but i think BSV is tainted in many ways. If average people came together and invested in the physical architecture necessary and created a new blockchain like BSV without the BS, that would probably be ideal. Maybe every town could do it.

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I’m so sorry what you and your fam have endured @hodlonaut No one should have their dignity integrity privacy security health and safety violated like that, esp for doing the right thing. I'll be sure to boycott anything these malicious vermin swindle in. You’re in my prayers fren, stay strong! 🫂

It's just sickening that that's allowed to happen Of course it's a difficult topic, but when it's so clear he's lying and just trying to (and unfortunately succeeded in some instances) suppress voices that expose him thanks to just having a lot of $$$$ at his disposal Now that he's been caught multiple times lying to a court and falsified documents he courts should just shut him down as fast as possible and make him pay increasingly higher fines and damages Like you see, no mercy, if he tries again he and his bakers should just get bankrupted and jailed

And after all you've been through you still do not value the only coin that has your privacy at heart? It's a horrible story. I am sorry yo hear all that, bro. But there's also plenty to learn from it. #Bitcoin #Monero