Edward Snowden And Craig Wright Exchange Blows On Twitter
Snowden referred to the Australian computer scientist as a “miserable corncob” and also called him a fraud.
On Monday, when Craig Wright called Snowden a traitor and accused him of being a whistleblower, Edward Snowden, an ex-NSA contractor, fired back at Wright.
The intelligence exert said that Wright had defrauded people and was fabricating his claim to be the inventor of Bitcoin.
In remembrance of Bitcoin’s 14th birthday, Snowden posted a copy of the whitepaper on Twitter, sparking the dispute.
Snowden said that he thinks it “amazing” that its inventor is still unknown after all of this time.
Craig Wright responded to this comment minutes later, claiming that “he” was never anonymous, while calling Snowden “traitorous scum.”
A little over an hour later, Snowden responded pointing out to Wright’s court defeat against the well-known Bitcoiner “Hodlonaut.” The lawsuit, which was resolved earlier this month, established that Hodlonaut’s labelling of Wright as a “scammer” and “fraud,” which they had “sufficient factual reasons” to support, did not constitute defamation.
That's the point, brother.
Remember two weeks ago when the court affirmed that @hodlonaut calling you a “pathetic scammer,” “cringe,” “clearly mentally ill,” and (repeatedly) a “fraud” was A-OK? And ordered you to pay like $348,257?
After that, Snowden criticised Wright for his contradictory statement that he was “never anonymous.” Wright alleges in a previous message from the computer scientist that he spent years “in obscurity and hiding” as Satoshi. He exhibited the note.
“Dude can’t even commit fraud properly. Just shocking,” finished Snowden.
Snowden, who generally supports Bitcoin, said today that the cryptocurrency’s layer-2 lightning network has made transactions “basically instantaneous.” The base layer protocol, on the other hand, has drawn criticism from him for its lack of privacy.
