The man who claims he’s Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto had an appeal upheld in a UK court and is now able to contend in further legal action that the Bitcoin file format is sufficiently well defined for copyright protection.<\/p>\n
Australian Craig Wright, who has claimed since at least 2016 that he created Bitcoin (BTC)<\/a>, had lost a February lawsuit he brought against 13 Bitcoin Core developers and businesses including Blockstream, Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), and Block. He claimed then that the defendants had violated his copyright to the so-called Bitcoin white paper, its file format, and his database rights to the Bitcoin blockchain.<\/p>\n The latest ruling enables Wright to argue for copyright protection for the Bitcoin file format under UK law. But his claim that he is Nakamoto and that he developed the 2008 Bitcoin white paper, written under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, is controversial. The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund (BLDF), set up by former Twitter chief Jack Dorsey and that is aiding defendants in Wright’s case, denounced the UK court ruling.<\/p>\n “Today’s appellate ruling says nothing on the subject of whether the defendants in the lawsuit violated Dr Wright’s copyright or database rights,” it said in a statement. “These issues will be decided at a full trial, but only if Dr Wright first demonstrates that he is Satoshi Nakamoto in a trial of only that issue in early 2024.”<\/p>\n It added that it was extremely confident that Wright would fail to prove that he is Nakamoto, ”just as he has failed to produce any evidence to back up his claim for the last seven years.” In such case, it said, his copyright and database rights will not be tried in court and yesterday’s decision will have had no effect.<\/p>\n But BLDF added the the fact the UK courts allowed his arguments to be heard is extremely dangerous for the crypto community and the entire world because it ”sets a dangerous precedent where developers can be sued for violating the file format of open source software that someone else claims to have created.“<\/p>\n Not should receive. <\/p>\n Has. Always had. <\/p>\n And, this only became an issue when Core stole it. Set in Stone, the wishes of the creator matter.<\/p>\n Get it right. https:\/\/t.co\/0YhYQe1s8F<\/a><\/p>\n — Dr Craig S Wright (@Dr_CSWright) July 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nNo Evidence Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto<\/h3>\n
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