oh boy if there's one thing you can do with LaTeX/CTAN it is produce bitwise identical PDFs if you want to
https://www.opencrypto.org/2024-01-23_Schedule_of_Dr_Wrights_Further_Forgeries-COPAvWright.pdf
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
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
@jonny (Not that he was really any more successful at that, of course)