Gavin Andresen held Satoshi's alert key and vouched for Craig Wright on May 2, 2016.
The public "Sartre" proof was junk and collapsed in hours.
The part that drives me nuts about this whole story is that there's SO MUCH circumstantial evidence.
People like Ian Grigg, Phil Wilson, Uyen Nguyen, Joseph Vaughn-Perling, Jon Matonis, Stefan Matthews and others will tell a story from their perspective about what went into bitcoin.
I've also had personal, private conversations with another half-dozen people who were witnesses to pre-release bitcoin. This includes witnesses in the trials, colleagues at Craig's companies who refused to testify for their own safety, and other people who have revealed things that I still am unwilling to share.
But then the actual "proofs" that should be there always come up so bunk.
There's waaaaaay too much smoke for there to be no fire, but we still can't find where the fire is.
The other smoking gun: why did Blockstream's CTO have the demolition ready within hours, twice? This looks like too much work to be ready as a debunk so quickly, which means either that he had a heads up both times or that he was hyper-motivated to make sure the world believes Craig is unreliable.
I've always ignored easily-debunked scammers.
Heck, I have 3 people in my DMs today telling me that they are Satoshi...
But when it's Craig, there's a chorus of experts who show up to wax on in great detail about all the reasons it can't be him and why we should read the Bitcoin Standard or invest in Strategy shares.