Cobra, the pseudonym used by the operator of Bitcoin.org, decided not to appear before a United Kingdom court, which in the absence of the operator decided to rule in favor of Craig Wright in his lawsuit over the intellectual property of the Bitcoin whitepaper.
Judge David Hodge QC of the United Kingdom ruled in favor of Craig Wright in his lawsuit against Cobra, and the website Bitcoin.org, for the intellectual property of the whitepaper de Bitcoin. The absence of the website operator led the court to side with Wright, because there was no other option available.
According to the ruling, Bitcoin.org must remove the Bitcoin whitepaper from its web portal and post a copy of the judge's order for at least 6 months. The UK court has also ordered an investigation into the “damages” that Cobra may have caused Wright while hosting the Bitcoin whitepaper and, in addition, pay a fine for legal fees to the Australian.
Cobra, the anonymous operator of the Bitcoin.org web portal, received a notice from Craig Wright at the beginning of the year, demanding to remove the Bitcoin whitepaper from the Bitcoin.org portal, pointing out that the operator was violating “his” copyright. by hosting the document without your authorization. At that time, Cobra, which is the pseudonym used by the website operator, published that he would not be intimidated by the threat, since Wright has never been able to prove that he is Satoshi Nakamoto and, therefore, does not have copyright on the whitepaper. of Bitcoin.
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Craig Wright, Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin
Controversial Australian businessman Craig Wright has long boasted of being the person behind the pseudonym “Satoshi Nakamoto”, and credits himself with the creation of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency most important in the industry. However, despite his many claims, Wright has never been able to prove with real evidence that he is the real Satoshi, so his statements lack meaning and logic, and have led a large part of the cryptocurrency community, and even the media, to consider him as the “Fake Satoshi”, the “Falso Satoshi” in Spanish.
His baseless proclamation has cost Wright the respect of much of the crypto community, although this has not stopped him in his various attempts to call himself “the real” Satoshi Nakamoto and, with it, claim the copyright of a technology. which from the beginning was created to be free, decentralized and completely autonomous.
Do not forget that Bitcoin was designed as a decentralized financial system, capable of functioning far from the claims and interests of a few.. Thus, if Wright really was the “real” Satoshi and had created Bitcoin, it seems that in a very few years he completely forgot the basic principles that gave life to this cryptocurrency, and that have made it what it is today for today.
Bitcoin whitepaper published under MIT license
Bitcoin whitepaper published under an MIT open source software license, so in reality the Bitcoin document and software can be used freely by all developers who want it.
La MIT license open source starts with “permission is granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files, to use the Software without restriction, including, without limitation, the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense and/or sell copies of the Software, and allow persons to whom the Software is provided to do the same.”.
As the MIT license indicates, Any developer or person can freely use the software and documents associated with Bitcoin, without violating intellectual property. In this way, Wright's current attempts to claim copyright on Bitcoin are completely misplaced. The cryptocurrency has been operating autonomously for more than 12 years and the Australian's claims threaten the spirit of freedom and decentralization of the cryptocurrency.
In fact, today, thanks to the fact that the whitepaper was released under the MIT license, it is possible to find copies of it (in English and other languages) relicensed in even more free licenses such as Creative Commons, which makes it clear that the whitepaper is not actually It belongs to no one in particular and, at the same time, it belongs to all of us.
Decentralization versus a manipulable system
When the balance tips towards one of the largest portfolios in the world, cases like Wright vs. Cobra occur.
The Bitcoin.org operator said that “It sucks when you have billionaires determined to bury you in frivolous and endless litigation.”. Cobra decided to protect his anonymity and not present a legal defense against Wright's baseless accusations; Furthermore, he criticized the system for allowing itself to be manipulated by the billionaire businessman's claims, even though he has not been able to prove that he is the author of the Bitcoin whitepaper.
“All of your fiat-based assets are ultimately secured by the same legal system that today made it illegal for me to publish the Bitcoin whitepaper, because a proven liar swore before a judge that he is Satoshi. “A system where ‘justice’ depends on who has the biggest wallet.”
Likewise, the fact that a court will take action and agree to file a lawsuit against a person under anonymity, without knowing if they were really under its jurisdiction, shows which side the balance is on.
One lie after another
The crypto community itself has made Wright look ridiculous several times, publicly unmasking many of his lies about being Satoshi. The last of these was in Kleiman vs. Wright case, when the businessman declared under oath to the state that 145 Bitcoin addresses from the Satoshi era (between 2009 and 2010) were his property, but that he did not have access to them because the private keys of those addresses were encrypted by the supposed Tulip Trust fund, which no longer exists today.
According to Wright, these addresses proved that he was Satoshi, but a few days later, each of the 145 Bitcoin addresses were mobilized by their true owners, once again revealing the businessman's lies. One of the owners of the addresses even signed a message saying that it was not Wright and that the businessman was just “a liar and a fraud.”
For those who know how Bitcoin works, only those who know and possess the private keys to an address can control it, so Wright blatantly lied to the court by swearing that those addresses were “his property.”
Wright has also been accused of presenting falsified documents and giving false testimony in court.
The crypto community defends the principle of Bitcoin
Despite the judge's ruling, which is valid in the United Kingdom, a large part of the crypto community has expressed its full support for Cobra and the Bitcoin.org web portal. On the other hand, there are those who make a called to the alliance COPA, Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance, to act against this attack on the decentralization and freedom of Bitcoin and its millions of users.
COPA, made up of large companies in the crypto industry such as Ark Invest, BlockStream, Coinbase, Bitpay, and many others, filed a lawsuit against Wright in April of this year, to refute the Australian's attempts to appropriate the copyright of the Bitcoin whitepaper and to guarantee free use of the cryptocurrency.
There are also those who they affirm that Wright will fall under his own weight before justice, when the size of “His falsifications and lies in court become too big to remain under the radar”.
Regarding the fine that must be paid to the Australian, Cobra indicated that it could send the payment to the Bitcoin address associated with block 9 of the network, an address that only the real Satoshi could access.
Cobra received donations of more than 12 BTC from the crypto community during the development of the case. Since Wright filed the lawsuit against Cobra and the Bitcoin.org website, hundreds of websites, companies and even governments and political representatives have housed the Bitcoin whitepaper on its portals, to defend its freedom and decentralization.
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