PHIL-PILLED
AKA SATOSHI NAKAMOTO
This article assumes a basic familiarity with Bitcoin’s history, the enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto, its pseudonymous inventor(s), Dr. Craig Wright’s claims, and related events. Wilson’s account of his involvement with the project is available here.
10 REASONS WHY PHIL WILSON IS SATOSHI NAKAMOTO
1. Phil Wilson’s description of events are far too detailed and his understanding of the tech far too strong to be dismissed as some crazy guy with delusions of grandeur.
2. His inclusion of Craig Wright as being central to the story makes no sense if Wilson is just a guy making up stories for personal acclaim. Naming someone else, especially someone running around submitting forged documents and unable to access Satoshi’s wallets or PGP keys seems like the last thing someone making false claims would decide to do.
(Part-Satoshi)
3. Craig Wright has never really explained how he arrived at all the breakthroughs Satoshi accomplished. He’s demonstrated an understanding of how the code addresses the issues, but not what made him think of those original solutions. Wilson does explain what made him think of each ‘Eureka!’ moment, very convincingly.
4. Wright has a very big reason to deny Phil’s story, called the ATO. The Australian tax authorities were reportedly right on his heels as he fled Down Under. Without claiming to be the man behind all the ideas, he wouldn’t have secured a $15 million payday from Ayre’s surrogates. Wright is in his mid 50s. Prison would be a death sentence.
5. The other person who denied Wilson’s account, and who Wilson fingered as someone who should remember a ‘Jamie’, was Martti Malmi and his rationale for denying Phil’s claims is less clear. But aside from the small possibility Martti Malmi actually forgot the name Jamie being tossed around in 2009-2011, it’s likely those in the circles he runs in (Bitcoin Foundation) would counsel him to throw Satoshi to the wolves for the "greater good" -- a Bitcoin not subject to the whims of one man. This is pure speculation.
6. His emails to Craig Wright in 2016 are far too familiar and insider-y to be the masterful gaslighting of a fraud. Wilson has done everything above board and has been clear he destroyed all the evidence (including a wallet with
7. His animation showing the Bitcoin logo's steps to recreate which he'd made instructions for during his time on the project are too complex to have been reverse engineered.
8. A Jamie Wilson, the name Phil used with Wright and Kleiman, gave a deposition in the trial Kleiman v Wright in Florida. Wilson says he was looking for a patent application expert and saw the name among a list of potential candidates and chose him partly so that if authorities cracked down on Bitcoin like they did Silk Road, they would assume this new Jamie Wilson is the guy. If Wilson's account is not true, it's quite an amazing coincidence.
9. Craig Wright told Dave Kleiman's father Louis in an email after Dave passed away that his son was part of a team of three, as Wilson recounts. He also said that to others including Gavin Andresen and a business associate with the last name of Paige. Wright has presented numerous different people over the years to be this number three, including a dead spy, all debunked by those who are alive and debunked by the evidence and families of those who are dead.
It claims three people were involved.
10. Phil Wilson is autistically brilliant, less so socially, a Rainman counting cards but humanly distant. He is humble and somewhat cynical. There is no pomp or self-importance. It is hard to conflate the narcissistic concept of someone who would make up such a detailed, voluminous undertaking with the resigned disposition of Mr. Wilson.
For all these reasons and more, I submit that Phil Wilson should be considered the primary candidate for the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.
It is exceedingly unnecessary and, frankly, cruel, that those who might otherwise give him a fair hearing, circle the wagons and reject him out of hand. That this is based on some idea that what he created is not his to claim is an obvious excuse for what is really fear and a lack of character. Fear that power will be lost in a political vacuum for those who hold it now, and a lack of character for placing self-interest over unfettered discovery of the truth.
Phil Wilson is Jamie, the third member of the team that developed Bitcoin. Along with Craig Wright and Dave Kleiman, those three gentlemen created Bitcoin in its original form. Wilson was the one who solved the necessary issues in a few months after Wright had hit a roadblock after five years of effort.
Phil Wilson wrote the white paper and the software. He registered Bitcoin.org and came up with Nakamoto. Craig Wright came up with Satoshi and had the drive to get the project to the finish line. Dave Kleiman was willing to do all things asked of him including the grunt work.
Anyone who is unbiased and willing to do the research (or simply follow mine) and who has reasonable powers of reasoning and deduction cannot, I believe, reach a different conclusion.
