A calm and balanced question to Craig Wright, whether or not he has access to Satoshi Nakamoto’s $ 9 billion Bitcoin wallet, met with a bizarre answer: “It’s none of your business.”
In an interview with BlockTV, the Bitcoin SV founder showed his heated, “censorship-resistant” mood as he asked direct questions about his litigation with the Kleiman estate, Tulip Trust, and Bitcoin’s recent price hike, SV’s native capital, BSV .
What Mr. Wright could have used as a platform for clarification became a missed opportunity. He made uncomfortable remarks about his otherwise quiet host – Asher Westropp-Evans – and refused to explain the same basics that helped BSV pump 350 percent.
On Tulip Trust
Traders who believed that Mr. Wright owned 1.1 million bitcoin mined in the cryptocurrency’s early years showed interest in buying BSV. One reason for this was Mr. Wright’s threat that he would dump the entire Bitcoin supply for BSV.
This, along with his Bitcoin whitepaper copyright filings with U.S. Patent Agencies, helped drive the price of BSV from $ 38 in December 2018 to $ 255 in June 2019.
Even so, Mr. Wright could never prove that he actually had 1.1 million bitcoin to offload. The community asked him to pull this bitcoin out of Satoshi Nakamoto’s wallet to prove that he was the pseudonymous bitcoin creator. Mr. Wright claimed that his Bitcoin was locked in a so-called Tulip Trust.
He later added that he would receive the private keys for his 1.1 million unit Bitcoin wallet on January 1st via a bonded courier.
On January 28th he was still without a key, which prompted Mr. Westropp-Evans to ask a simple question.
Mr. Wright refused to share details, stating that it was his personal matter.
Bring away:: The fact that Mr Wright was unable to prove his 1.1 million BTC possession and his refusal to address press inquiries could set off a loud alarm for long-term BSV investors.
Bitcoin SV price manipulation
As NewsBTC reported earlier, Mr. Wright admitted that he knew exactly who pumped BSV price up to 350 percent in January. He refused to name the entities and did not want to explain the consequences of the price jump.
Bitcoin SV rose nearly 292 percent in January Source: TradingView.com, BitFinex
Takeaway: The statement alone justified the fact that only a few whales were involved in BSV. This was another warning of how the cryptocurrency could be massively corrected in the upcoming sessions.
In addition, Mr. Wright made conflicting statements about the fact that he and Dave were not partners. In one of his earlier statements, Mr. Wright had approved a partnership. Excerpts:
“When Dave Kleiman died, the partnership was transferred to Ira.”
Another one:
“Do you think I’ll complain because I can only keep $ 6 billion and am the only surviving member of Satoshi?”
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