The Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) vs Craig Wright trial is drawing to a close and British judge James Mellor, who is handling the case, has concluded that Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto and therefore not the creator of Bitcoin.
This week, the final arguments were presented in the COPA vs Wright trial, which aims to demonstrate that businessman Craig Wright, who proclaimed himself Satoshi Nakamoto in 2016, has committed industrial scale fraud, in attempting to claim intellectual property and copyright over Bitcoin, falsifying a large stack of documents to support their claims.
After a month of the trial in the United Kingdom, and after all the evidence presented by COPA and the witnesses in the case, about Wright's fraud and forgeries, Judge James Mellor ruled on March 14 that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, is not the author of the Bitcoin whitepaper, He is not the creator of Bitcoin y Nor is he the creator of the technology that powers cryptocurrency.
The ruling by Judge Mellor, who will submit a written conclusion on the case, comes after Wright imposed several lawsuits and legally intimidated several Bitcoin developers, who have been contributing to the development and maintenance of this technological innovation.
We are all Satoshi, except Craig Wright
The recent court ruling against Wright has significant implications for the crypto community and will put an end to all the legal disputes that the businessman started against Bitcoiners and cryptocurrency developers. Because of this, on X (formerly Twitter), several developers and contributors to the Bitcoin protocol have begun to celebrate Judge Mellor's ruling.
Cobra, the pseudonymous operator of the Bitcoin.org website, was sued by Wright in the UK in 2021 for hosting the Bitcoin whitepaper on the website without his permission. At the time, Wright won the suit against the operator, as Cobra refused to appear at the trial to protect his privacy and anonymity. However, now that the UK court has declared that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, Cobra said on his account that “this means that “we are all Satoshi except Craig Wright” is legally correct.”
On the other hand, Magnus Granath, known as “Hodlonaut”, stated that the COPA vs Wright trial automatically puts an end to the two ongoing cases that are against him, when he was sued by Wright, 5 years ago. “It automatically marks the beginning of the official reality of what Craig is and is not,” emphasized Granath.
Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter and CEO of Block, the company focused on Bitcoin development that was also hit with a lawsuit by Wright, took to X to highlight Judge Mellor’s recent statements. Dorsey wrote:
“I will make certain statements that I am convinced are useful and necessary to do justice between the parties. First, that Dr. Wright is not the author of the Bitcoin whitepaper. Second, that Dr. Wright is not the person who adopted or operated under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto in the period 2008-2011. Third, that Dr. Wright is not the person who created the Bitcoin system. And, fourth, that he is not the author of the initial versions of the Bitcoin software.”
Wright has until 21 days after the written sentence to appeal the court ruling. However, Judge Mellor noted that The evidence presented against the self-proclaimed businessman Satoshi was overwhelming.
12 Reasons Why Wright Is Not Satoshi
In a publication In a blog post on March 13, COPA presented the 12 reasons why it believes Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto. The alliance, which includes MicroStrategy and other companies and projects in the crypto world, said that:
- El Bitcoin whitepaper was produced in OpenOffice, and not in LaTeX as Wright has often claimed. “The real Satoshi would know this,” the alliance stressed.
- Adam Back did not disparage the concept of Bitcoin, as Wright claimed. In late February, Back presented a series of unpublished emails shared between him and the real Satoshi Nakamoto that prove all this.
- Wei Dai had no influence on the creation of Bitcoin, as Satoshi did not learn about his work until 2008, when Back mentioned it in one of his emails and when the Bitcoin whitepaper had already been written. On the contrary, Wright claimed that he had been captivated and influenced by the cryptographer's work in creating the cryptocurrency.
- The real Satoshi Nakamoto would know that the PGP key had been created, published and used before 2011.
- About the Bitcoin code, if Wright had written it, then would know the basics about it. During the trial, the businessman demonstrated that he had no knowledge of the CheckBlock function or what an unsigned integer is.
- The Bitcoin whitepaper was made available in a free file hosting service owned and operated from Dubai.
- Inconsistencies in Wright's stories about the Patch Tuesday January 2009.
- Wright demonstrated Lack of knowledge about initial mining requirements of the Bitcoin network.
- The real Satoshi Nakamoto did not send Bitcoin to Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn.
- Wright stated that there is no public key associated with the coinbase transaction from the Genesis Block, which is completely false and again, the real Satoshi would know this.
- Satoshi Nakamoto wrote the cryptocurrency post in July 2010, and not Martti Malmi, as Wright said.
- The real Satoshi did not object to Gavin Andresen using GitHub, rather than SourceForge, to host the Bitcoin protocol.
All of this evidence was shared by COPA and the case's witnesses at the trial held in the United Kingdom. COPA seeks to put an end to Wright's unsupported claims and prevent the entrepreneur from taking further legal action against cryptocurrency contributors. The alliance also seeks to have the court consider criminal charges against Wright.
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