Twitter user and steganography researcher Fauvel (@roman_de_fauvel) has just posted a compelling technical proof that Craig Stephen Wright was the author of the Bitcoin Whitepaper.
In his analysis of the white paper, he discovered that there were two signatures of Craig Stephen Wirght in the paper, one being CSW and the other being DRCSWRIGHT. He goes through series of logical steps that are listed as steganography clues.
In simple terms, imagine the person who wrote the Bitcoin paper left a secret puzzle inside it. To solve this puzzle, you look closely at small things like strange spaces between words, unusual punctuation, or certain words spelled slightly differently. To solve the puzzle, Fauvel did the following:
- Looked carefully at the paper for anything unusual or out of place.
- Found that certain letters and words stood out because they were formatted strangely or repeated oddly.
- Put together the letters from these odd-looking spots.
- After gathering all the strange clues, they found that these letters spelled out someone’s initials: “C.S.W.” and the name “WRIGHT.”
In essence, Fauvel is of the opinion that Satoshi left hidden hints in the paper on purpose, like leaving secret clues in a treasure hunt, and these clues point to the name “Dr. Craig S. Wright.”
The chief objection to the methodology used by Fauvel is that one could apply a number of processes for choosing individual letters that could lead to signatures of almost anyone. The reply to the objection is that steganography relies on following rules embedded in the text. That it doesn’t allow for the arbitrary use of any rules, but is constrained by the identification of rules embedded in the text.
It seems that the validity of Fauvel’s conclusion hinges upon whether these discovered “rules” really appear deliberate, consistent, and unique enough to rule out coincidence or random chance. The more carefully and logically structured the hidden rules, the stronger Fauvel’s claim becomes.
What takes this idea to a level of absolute brilliance, is that the rules discovered by Fauvel to find Craig Wirght’s signature is that the they have to run the rules of the bitcoin network over the steps to run the bitcoin network as per the instructions communicated stenographically within the paragraphs of the whitepaper.
Fauvel didn’t just randomly find hidden letters. Instead, he claims the hidden signature of Craig Wright emerges only when you apply the very rules of Bitcoin’s operation as described in the whitepaper itself to the text of the whitepaper. A self-referential puzzle.
This means that the supposed hidden signature isn’t arbitrary.; It is intricately tied to Bitcoin’s design itself. It is clear that the author signing their creation by cleverly hiding their name in a puzzle that can only be solved using Bitcoin’s own operational rules is something that could only have been implemented deliberately by Bitcoin’s original creator.
Technical decode of the Bitcoin whitepapers is available on GitHUB
OH WOW IF I REMOVE LETTERS UNTIL ONLY “CSW” REMAINS, I’M LEFT WITH THE LETTERS “CSW” QUICK SOMEONE, TELL CREG HE CAN COME OUT OF THE CLOSET IN THAILAND
Yes, but your simple algorithm doesn’t follow the rules of the bitcoin whitepaper, does it? The claim is that the hidden signature of Craig Wright emerges only when you apply the very rules of Bitcoin’s operation as described in the whitepaper itself to the text of the whitepaper. This is an elegant algorithm that can mean only one thing. It is genuine.