Responding to a CFTC request for comments, Dr. Craig S. Wright has reasserted his claim that he is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto – and he’s willing to testify under oath to prove it.

In December of 2018, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) posted a request for input (RFI) on Crypto-Asset Mechanics and Markets. Among those responding to the request were representatives from Coinbase, Perkins Coie, ErisX, ConsenSys, and many others.

On Friday, controversial crypto personality and Bitcoin SV proponent Dr. Craig S. Wright (does anybody other than me ever hear that in the same voice as ‘Bill S. Preston, Esq.‘?) offered his comments as well, doubling down on his claim of being the real Satoshi Nakamoto in the process:

My name is Dr. Craig Wright and under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto I completed a project I started in 1997 that was filed with the Australian government in part under an AusIndustry project registered with the Dept. of Innovation as BlackNet.

Wright’s latest claim comes just days after crypto news publication CryptoPotato lambasted him for releasing plagiarized fake ‘evidence’ to prove his identity as Bitcoin’s enigmatic creator.

The Bernie Madoff of #Bitcoin, Craig S. Wright, who keeps forging documents to make it seem that he is Bitcoin's pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, caught again, this time forging a "2001" antecedent to Nakamoto's first Bitcoin paper. https://t.co/Xqmok0p0U4 pic.twitter.com/HssXgTuQ7l — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 13, 2019

Wright’s Long History of Claiming to be Satoshi

For years, Craig Wright has been claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto. In December 2015, both Wired and Gizmodo published separate investigative reports alleging that Wright could, indeed, be the elusive Nakamoto. However, inconsistencies with Wright’s claims suggested the probability of an “elaborate, long-planned hoax”.

In the days and months following the articles, Wright all but disappeared until May 2016, when he publicly announced that he was Satoshi Nakamoto. The ‘proof’ he has presented over the years has largely been debunked, but he continues to persist in his claim to the Nakamoto moniker regardless.

But back to his claim to the CFTC. Wright has graciously offered to make himself available for further questioning by the agency:

I plan to make myself available for questioning from the CFTC outside of the scope of this response. I note in particular that when I talk of bitcoin and other systems, I reference that which was defined in the original white paper and code release.

He concludes his response with:

I am willing to testify under oath.

Well thank goodness for that! The matter is settled and we can all go home because nobody in the history of the world has ever lied under oath. 🙄 🤣

What do you think of Wright’s latest claim? Will the CFTC actually believe him and take him up on his offer? Let us know in the comments below.

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