The Bitcoin whitepaper was republished on the Bitcoinorg website after Craig Wright lost the lawsuit against COPA.
The publication of the Bitcoin whitepaper, the cryptocurrency's technical document that was presented by Satoshi Nakamoto on October 31, 2008, was confirmed by Bitcoinorg maintainer Hennadii Stepanov on his X (formerly Twitter) account.
Stepanov posted a message revealing that the Bitcoin white paper is back on the Bitcoinorg domain and is available for download. This, given the inability of Craig Wright, who called himself Satoshi Nakamoto, to prove his claims in the trial that began in February in the United Kingdom against the COPA alliance.
After several weeks of statements, interrogations and testimony, British judge James Mellor concluded that Craig Wright is a complete fraud.
Craig Wright is not the creator of Bitcoin nor the author of its whitepaper
Last week, Judge Mellor issued his written judgment in the case, noting that Wright, who had for years claimed to be the creator of Bitcoin, using this to intimidate and undermine the integrity of the cryptocurrency's developers, had falsified all the evidence presented to the courts, deliberately lying and creating a tangled web with which he has committed fraud on an industrial scale.
After pointing out the web of lies and falsifications fabricated by Wright, Judge Mellor concluded that the businessman He is not Satoshi Nakamoto and therefore he is not the creator of Bitcoin or the author of the Bitcoin whitepaper..
Thanks to this ruling, the Bitcoinorg website, which had removed the Bitcoin whitepaper from its domain after Wright sued anonymous developer Cøbra in 2022, can once again host the cryptocurrency's whitepaper.
Wright vs Cobra
Bitcoinorg was forced to remove the Bitcoin whitepaper from its website when Wright won a demand against anonymous developer Cøbra, who did not appear in a UK court to preserve his privacy and anonymity. Because of this, Wright won the lawsuit filed, simply because there was no other option available.
However, while the balance tipped in favour of the businessman at the time, Judge Mellor's current ruling invalidates Wright's claims of wanting to illegally appropriate Bitcoin's copyright and intellectual property.
In 2022, when Wright was threatening to sue those who published the Bitcoin whitepaper, it emerged that more than 100 websites of companies, organizations, and even governments hosted the whitepaper in response to the legal threats, starting a movement to fight against the businessman's bad intentions and defend the freedom and decentralization of Bitcoin.
