this is in fact the main thing that TeX does

lmao this was what @mjg59 was talking about, that is extremely good
https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/111974382004359776

how do you fuck up a scam this bad when you could simply not use overleaf and make a file with a fake mtime and say there was no metadata. i mean. if the original document was produced with LaTeX

i don't know the backstory but this person must have REALLY underestimated bitcoin guys addiction to format details and especially PDFs or whatever you call a "whitepaper" for some reason. they are GOING to find your LaTeX generator

you seriously have to appreciate how funny this is given how slow moving, conservative, and old fashioned the entire TeX universe is. a modern npm package with as wide usage as some CTAN packages will get like hundreds of commits a day and nightly releases. CTAN packages have like 5 versions ever and they were all in 2006

literally every useful feature in LaTeX and its derivatives was a battle against the history of the typesetting engine having been written by a single dude with an EXTREMELY specific idea about what was good for documents. i haven't read the history of this specific change, but the thing about \newgeometry not existing in 2009 is probably a HUGE DEAL because knuth almost certainly hated the idea of changing page layout mid-document and purposely sabotaged the ability to do that

obviously i am thrilled that there is a TeX-centric scam, this is like two things i love to hate colliding to produce the platonically good version of both

this is of course the MAIN QUESTION here, why would you do the hardest version of document reproduction that leaves the biggest electronic signature. the surface of changes available to you in a WYSIWYG editor is like a millionth that of asserting that a TeX file produces a PDF

it's like trying to get away with a bank robbery by killing someone and pretending to be them for a week before robbing the bank still looking like yourself. it makes no sense to do

screeching i tell you

cut to the wikipedia page remind us that THIS ISNT EVEN THE PROOF that would be MEANINGFUL TO CRYPTOCURRENCY PEOPLE. If you want to prove you invented bitcoin you should be able to fuckin sign for it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Steven_Wright#Bitcoin

time is a flat circle where boomers never stopped searching google in full sentences but now somehow that's the right thing to do again

ok who knows where i can find the adjoining documents here, i think i need to see this description in order to survive, it sounds too good to move on from

there is simply no way this guy is about to try and pass of a full drive image when he got literally everything wrong about forging a single document

"the entire technology that was used to identify this as a forgery didn't exist when the image was created"

the sheer hubris of telling the people who are using more energy than the sun to power like 90% of GPUs that exist on this planet that you have a file that would prove that you invented their religion but it's locked within an encrypted .zip file

truly going for the hall of fame of doing everything wrong when doing digital forgery: documents known to be forged by their fake inclusion in the forged disk image were forged to fake their timestamps with the wrong version of MS word.

"i know, to get away with this i'll make sure to leave as many fingerprints as possible, that way they'll have no idea which of the forgeries was the real forgery"

here we go i have been waiting for this moment

doing some mr bean shit in my forgery like no i mean the present, which was the past, then, i mean the future! which in the past, would have been...

THE OLYMPICS OF FUCKING UP A FORGERY HAS ENTERED THE ANALOG EVENTS

i am my own spirit looking over my body having recently become deceased

please i beg you