Key Points
This week, some of those early collaboratorsnow crypto-celebrities in their own righttook to the witness box of a London courtroom..
Back created a precursor technology called Hashcash (although Wright disputes its relevance) and corresponded with Satoshi as the Bitcoin creator drafted the white paper..
Malmi contested Wrights timeline of the correspondence between him and Satoshi and Wrights description of technical arrangements relating to the Bitcoin.org forum..
Orr cast the work of Blockstream, which develops services atop Bitcoin technology, as fundamentally misaligned with the future for Bitcoin envisioned by Satoshi, giving Back a vested interest in Wright being defeated..
Wright is among those that found it difficult, he suggested, to accept they couldnt change the rules.. To rebut the email Back had provided to the court, in which Satoshi appeared to be unfamiliar with a proposal that Wright had said was as a primary influence, Orr focused on ambiguities in the language..
