The Craig Wright Timeline

The BCH Boys Podcast

We examine the history of Bitcoin in chronological order. 1996: Craig Wright is on the cypherpunk mailing lists arguing in favor of capitalism http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1996/09/msg01513.html 1/21/2009: Dave Kleiman posts on the cypherpunk mailing list https://marc.info/?l=cryptography&r=1&w=2&b=200901 April 29 2013: Craig puts a video on Youtube memorializing his friend Dave Kleiman: https://web.archive.org/web/20130509011754/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGmZ7v3TB2Y February 11 2014: Craig allegedly emails Dave’s father telling him he was involved in the creation of Bitcoin February 12 2014: Dave’s father comments on a techcrunch article about Bitcoin https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/10/bitcoin-wins-best-technology-achievement-but-satoshi-doesnt-show/ February 18 2014: Craig meets with the ATO https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2644012-20140218-Transcript-Redacted.html June 13 2014: Interview is published with Bernard von Nothaus where he says a mutual friend tells him Satoshi Nakamoto was a fan: https://youtu.be/argq_cxalZ8?t=437 July 2014: Craig is interviewed by the Bitcoin Doco: https://youtu.be/4GuqlQvFYJo July 2014: Craig appears on a radio interview describing metanet 2014: Craig is on a panel arguing about “what is money” - echoing his sentiments in the February ATO interview: https://youtu.be/1PtAqNpEm7w?t=350 September 2014: The Satoshi Nakamoto email is allegedly hacked: https://www.deepdotweb.com/2014/09/09/satoshi-nakamotos-email-account-hacked/ October 29/30 2015: Craig is on panel talking about Turing Completeness of Bitcoin: https://youtu.be/LdvQTwjVmrE 12/8/2015: Wired publishes article claiming Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto. 12/9/2015: Ian Grigg https://twitter.com/iang_fc/status/674722847160422400 12/9/2015: Craig’s Australian Residence is raided by the ATO May 2 2016: Gavin Blog Post: http://gavinandresen.ninja/satoshi May 2 2016: Jon Matonis - How I met Satoshi https://medium.com/@jonmatonis/how-i-met-satoshi-96e85727dc5a May 2 2016: JVP says Craig Wright was who he met in 2005: https://twitter.com/haq4good/status/727846103522017280 https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4huf0i/jvp_just_confirmed_that_craigh_wright_is_the_man/d2si7ww/ May 2 2016: BBC video: https://youtu.be/5DCAC1j2HTY Him on the ATO: https://youtu.be/5DCAC1j2HTY?t=112 May 2 2016: Sartre piece: https://archive.is/sV9vv June 30 2016: Andrew O’Hagan piece The Satoshi Affair: http://www.ywesee.com/uploads/Ywesee/Andrew_O_Hagan_The_Satoshi_Affair_LRB_30_June_2016.pdf May 17 2017: ATO officials (including those overseeing the CSW investigation) are arrested for fraud: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-13/ato-deputy-commissioner-michael-cranston-resigns/8614572 Investigations began in June of 2016 June 2017: Jon Matonis gives speaking time to CSW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgqtcu0zo-k