British judge James Mellor ruled yesterday (14) that Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who has long claimed to be the anonymous creator of Bitcoin known as Satoshi Nakamoto and is jokingly referred to as “Faketoshi” by the community, is not the real Satoshi Nakamoto and is not the author of the Bitcoin whitepaper.
(Background: Craig Wright is “looked down upon” by the judge! Must pay 400,000 pounds before appealing the Bitcoin lawsuit)
The Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA) filed a lawsuit against Craig Wright last month, seeking to prevent him from taking legal action against developers and members of the cryptocurrency community, or obtaining intellectual property rights over Bitcoin’s open-source technology.
British Judge: Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto
Just yesterday (14), British judge James Mellor ruled in the closing arguments of the COPA v. Craig Wright case that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto and is not the author of the Bitcoin whitepaper. Key evidence was provided in court by Bitcoin pioneer Adam Back and early Bitcoin contributor Martti Malmi, both of whom objected to Craig Wright’s testimony and stated that he is not Satoshi Nakamoto.
Regarding this victory, COPA stated:
“At the same time, Twitter (now X) founder Jack Dorsey also retweeted the judge’s closing arguments, expressing support for the ruling.”
Faketoshi’s repeated defeats
In reality, Craig Wright has faced frequent defeats in recent years, as he has been unable to provide the private keys as evidence and has been caught making false statements. He even expressed his exhaustion in December 2022, stating on Twitter that he has given up trying to convince others that he is the “creator of Bitcoin.”
For example, in February of last year, Craig Wright lost in the UK High Court. According to the court’s judgment, the judge ruled that the file format of Bitcoin (including the header sequence of meta-data and the list of transactions) “cannot be considered a literary work” because Wright failed to demonstrate how the file format of Bitcoin was first recorded in writing or in any other form. This is known as the “fixation” test under copyright law in Europe and the US.
At that time, Craig Wright argued that he wrote the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008 under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto and he should have the right to prevent the operation of blockchains that were forked from the original Bitcoin, including the BTC and BCH (Bitcoin Cash) blockchains, as these Bitcoin forks infringed his intellectual property rights. He also filed claims against many defendants related to Bitcoin, including the Coinbase exchange and 26 other entities.
Further reading:
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