Craig’s cross examination is officially over and he got absolutely toasted every day this week. I don’t think any of his lies are getting past the experts or Mellor because they’re so easy to prove as lies. For those not on Twitter, people and coders (specifically shadders) are disproving his claims in real time as he makes them. Mellor even hopped in a few times this week to ask questions in a stern tone.

My favorite parts:

Craig refers to Satoshi as “he” before stopping mid sentence to correct himself to say “I”.

Craig admitted to some reliance documents being forgeries, yet said the forging was done by employees and people who hate him. When asked why he didn’t say they were forged when he turned them over, he said he didn’t think he had to. He continued, throughout the week, saying any documents that were false “came from staff laptops”.

Craig admits to lying in other trials, specifically Kleiman, saying he did so because he wanted to be nice and give Dave some credit for his work.

Craig claims he doesn’t write on his own blog, it some guy named David but he can’t remember his last name. He also claims that nchain runs his Twitter account and he has never seen Calvin’s tweets.

Craig claims that he, as Satoshi, sent Bitcoin to hundreds of people (a lie). When asked if he can name any of the hundreds, he says no. Judge says “not even one?” Craig says “no”. (Does Hal Finney ring a bell Craig?)

Craig claimed satoshis PGP key put on bitcoin.org was actually put there in 2011. When shown the key was from 2008, Craig claimed that the key was backdated to 2008. When the judge asked who backdated it Craig said “I did”.