In a new chapter, Craig Wright accuses several organizations and web portals of violating his copyright and author rights by displaying the Bitcoin logo and whitepaper, and the community defends itself against the lawsuit.
The lawyers representing Craig Steven Wright They are accusing several organizations and web portals, such as Bitcoin.org y Bitcoincore.org, of committing an infringement by publishing the Bitcoin whitepaper without authorization from Wright, who is again pronouncing himself as the “true” Satoshi Nakamoto, Creator of Bitcoin, and therefore, who has the copyright on the whitepaper of the most famous cryptocurrency on the market.
Wright's accusations are directed at all the organizations that have published the original Bitcoin whitepaper, stating that they do not have his authorization to publish said document, and that they must therefore remove it from their portals immediately, if they do not want to face a lawsuit for violating their copyright. In fact, in the legal notice that the conflicted programmer sent to the organizations, he declares himself as the owner of the Bitcoin.org portal and the Bitcoin name and brand.
In response to these claims, the Bitcoin.org organization spoke out to dismiss Wright's claims to the crypto community, stating that his accusations have no valid basis. To date, Wright has not been able to prove with conclusive evidence that he is the true creator of Bitcoin, since in the past, several of the claims and supposed evidence presented by him, which demonstrated his true identity as Satoshi Nakamoto, were invalidated by the hundreds of real evidence presented by the crypto community itself, stating that Wright was a simple liar.
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“We refuse to do so” says Bitcoin.org
It appears that the Bitcoin Core platform, the most well-known and widely used Bitcoin client and implementation, has removed the whitepaper from its website, bowing to pressure from legal notices from Wright's lawyers and lending credibility to the developer's false claims.
Bitcoin.org, the largest organization hosting developers, companies and other contributors to the network, he pointed that it is not willing to give in to Wright's demands and claims, and that it is a regrettable fact that the Bitcoin Core developers are rushing, without consulting the organization, before removing the whitepaper from the portal bitcoincore.org.
“Unfortunately, without consulting us, the Bitcoin Core developers were quick to remove the Bitcoin whitepaper from bitcoincore.org in response to these copyright infringement allegations, lending credence to these false claims.”
The organization now accuses Bitcoin Core of “lending ammunition” to Bitcoin enemies, self-censoring and compromising its own integrity with its recent actions.
One lie after another
It should not be forgotten that Craig Steven Wright has made numerous failed attempts to try to convince the crypto community that he is the real Satoshi, the most recent attempt being presented during the Kleiman vs Craig Wright case, which was soon after exposed by a user on Reddit, who revealed the lie that Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto with real evidence.
During this case, Wright claimed to be the owner of a list of 145 Bitcoin addresses from the Satoshi era (between 2009 and 2010), which supposedly proved his claims. According to Wright, these addresses were his property, but he could not move them because the addresses were private keys of these addresses were encrypted and protected in a supposed fund called Tulip Trust, which he did not have access to and whose existence has not been proven. Wright stated this in court under oath, but a few days later the crypto community mobilized each of the 145 addresses that Wright had claimed as his own, publishing a message in which Wright is clearly accused of being “a liar and a fraud.”
For those who have been familiar with Bitcoin for some time, if Wright had been the real owner of the addresses included in the list, no one else in the world would have been able to sign a message with them. Therefore, this fact proved that Wright is not the one who owns the private keys that control those addresses and that he openly lied to the court.
Prove you are Satoshi
With so many issues in his many attempts to proclaim himself as Satoshi Nakamoto, Wright has earned the nickname “Fake Satoshi” from the crypto community, which no longer trusts any of his statements. Thus, Bitcoin.org refuses to remove the Bitcoin whitepaper, pointing out that there is no doubt about having the legal right to host the Bitcoin whitepaper without it entailing legal claims. Also, the organization reminded that this document was published under the MIT license by Satoshi Nakamoto himself.
Bitcoin.org noted that there is a known PGP public key that can cryptographically prove the identity of the real Satoshi, but since Wright has not been able to verify it, he cannot prove that he is who he claims to be, and therefore has no right to claim any copyright. In light of this, Bitcoin.org notes that it will continue to host the Bitcoin whitepaper on its site and urged other sites that are intimidated by Wright's lawsuit threats to resist these false accusations.
It is also worth remembering that Bitcoin is an open source project, so any user can copy its code to develop a new product, or even an identical one, without violating any rights.
Finally, although Wright calls himself Satoshi Nakamoto, and claims to own the copyright to the whitepaper and the name of Bitcoin, it is worth remembering that the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office approved a patent application on the original name and logo of Bitcoin to the citizen and lawyer Ignacio Rubio Menéndez, who is a partner and founder of the law firm Botas&Rubio Abogados, and who submitted the application under the name of Eduardo Pérez Montero, resident in the province of Asturias, Spain.
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