Craig Wright Claims He’s Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto. Can He Prove It in Court?

The case is being brought by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a nonprofit consortium of crypto and tech firms, in response to a slew of lawsuits filed by Wright against Bitcoin developers and other parties, in which he is trying to assert intellectual property rights over Bitcoin as its ostensible creator...

The verdict will have direct implications for a tangle of interlocking cases, which will determine whether Wright can prevent developers from working on Bitcoin without his permission and dictate the terms under which the Bitcoin system can be used...

In the most high-profile of those cases, known informally as the Database Rights Case, Wright accuses Bitcoin developers of breaching his IP rights by making fundamental changes to the Bitcoin system without applying for a license or authorization..

If he wins, though, Wright could make it harder for developers to collaborate freely on the Bitcoin codebaseto spoil the unspoiled anarchyby wielding the affirmation of his IP rights to file lawsuits against those that do not seek a license..

Appearing relaxed in the courtroom, his calm demeanor belied both the stakes of the trial, which has major ramifications for the future of Bitcoin and the forceful rhetoric of the plaintiffs lawyer Jonathan Hough, who called Wright's claim to Satoshi-hood a brazen lie..

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