A judge has ruled definitively that Craig Wright is not the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, dealing a blow to his claims of ownership over the currency’s intellectual property.
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Craig Wright is one of the most notorious figures in the cryptocurrency industry, as he claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin (BTC). His claim to Satoshi’s identity quickly spurred an intense reaction throughout the Bitcoin community, with many calling him out as a fraud.
A self-described polymath, Wright claims to have built the Bitcoin protocol with Dave Kleiman, who, being deceased, is unavailable to attest to this claim.
Wright has been embroiled in legal battles on two fronts: defamation lawsuits against industry peers who have publicly called him a fraud and an ongoing legal case against the Kleiman estate, which has at stake a crypto fortune worth billions of dollars — with Wright’s claim of being Satoshi right in the center of the case.
While the Wright v. Kleiman case is still ongoing, with Wright having provided false documentation and evidence throughout the proceedings, he has been heavily involved in the development of Bitcoin SV, a fork of a fork of the Bitcoin network.
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Wright is not the pseudonymous founder of the Bitcoin network, a judge ruled on March 14.
9971The Crypto Open Patent Alliance has attempted to show that Wright cannot be Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto and make him stop claiming to be.
4270The trial between Craig Wright and Bitcoin Core developers was rescheduled for February following the discovery of new evidence.
40449The decision reverses a prior ruling, allowing Craig Wright to appeal a lawsuit claiming copyright to the Bitcoin white paper and database.
6838A report published by the U.K. Law Commission bolsters Bitcoin core developers’ defense that they are not liable for 111,000 BTC taken by hackers.
3304The Bitcoin Defense Legal Fund’s chief legal officer spoke out against an “extraordinarily dangerous” lawsuit initiated by Craig Wright, a person who claims to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
6241To this day, the exact identity of Satoshi Nakamoto remains a mystery. The chances that the real creator is described below are small.
32344The court battle over 1.1 million BTC is at a standstill, as the jury in the case has been deadlocked for days.
15611Gerald Votta from Quantum Economics has a theory on the true identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto: the author of the first reply to the white paper itself.
19068Apart from removing the white paper, Cøbra has removed access to Bitcoin software for site visitors from the United Kingdom.
11117Bitcoin.org must now remove the Bitcoin white paper, host a notice referring to the court’s judgment, and pay $48,600 to cover Wright’s legal costs.
16977Nassim Taleb and Nouriel Roubini criticized tokens in general during a BSV conference panel.
6998The dispute over the legal ownership of the Bitcoin whitepaper could make it all the way to the courts as one website owner refuses to back down from Craig Wright's legal threats.
8987Legal threats by self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Wright, have caused one site to remove what he claims is “his” Bitcoin whitepaper. But others are refusing to give up so easily.
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