- British High Court Judge James Mellor finally puts an end to the delusions of Dr. Craig Wright.
- This came after the court found “overwhelming” evidence that the Australian computer scientist and businessman is neither Satoshi Nakamoto nor the author of the Bitcoin (BTC) Whitepaper.
COPA v. Craig Wright Ruling
According to the magistrate, he will pen a ruling favoring the arguments, testimonies, and documentary evidence presented by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) in its pursuit to have a “negative declaration” on the egregious posturing of Wright that he was the brain behind Bitcoin.
The verdict is expected to put a stop to Wright’s constant harassment of developers and community members within the BTC ecosystem. It should be recalled that he was responsible for suing several people as he vehemently claimed ownership over the intellectual rights of Bitcoin’s underlying technology.
The Inconsistencies of Craig Wright According to COPA
The COPA listed down the following factors which didn’t add up to Wright’s claim that he was Satoshi Nakamoto:
- Wright’s version of the Bitcoin Whitepaper was produced in LaTex, unlike its originally published version which came in OpenOffice format.
- The Australian claimed that Adam Back showed indifference to the concept of Bitcoin, but the emails Back had with Satoshi proved otherwise.
- The claimant stated that he was inspired by Wei Dai’s work when he read about it in the 1990s, but Back’s correspondence with Satoshi indicated that the latter didn’t know about Dai’s work until August 2008.
- The computer scientist exhibited a lack of expertise when discussing the intricacies of the technologies used in Bitcoin, its codes, its mining operations, and the site where the original Bitcoin Whitepaper was initially hosted.
- Wright failed to name a single person to whom Satoshi initially transferred Bitcoin and he couldn’t recall the key linked to the Genesis Block.
- The Satoshi poser mistakenly pointed to Martti Malmi as the author of a cryptocurrency post made in 2010 and he failed to recount how the Bitcoin system ended up on GitHub.
Final Thoughts
The conclusion of the COPA v. Craig Wright case is definitely a welcome development not only for the Bitcoin community but for the overall cryptocurrency industry. It also helps preserve the integrity and anonymity of the individual or group behind the “Satoshi Nakamoto” moniker who seemingly sacrificed all the promises of fame and fortune just to fully realize the decentralized vision of Bitcoin.