“The Only Person on Earth Who’s Not Legally Satoshi Nakamoto” – Craig Wright Gets Brutally Trolled as His Bitcoin-Related Claims Stand Discredited
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The CIA, BlackRock, or a deceased person. These are the most likely identities of the notoriously reclusive creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, now that Craig Wright's long-standing claims have been utterly demolished in a UK court.
Craig Wright vs. COPA
As we noted in a post back in early February, Bitcoin's whitepaper was published anonymously back in 2009 by an individual - or a group of people - under the alias Satoshi Nakamoto, who currently owns between 750,000 BTC and 1.1 million BTC. Since 2011, all attempts to contact Nakamoto have remained in vain, leading to vicious bouts of speculation.
Related Story A UK Court Is Set To Decide Whether Craig Wright Is the Elusive Bitcoin Founder Satoshi Nakamoto
In 2016, Craig Wright, an Australian academic, started claiming that he was the founder of Bitcoin. In 2019, Wright was able to obtain a US copyright for Bitcoin's whitepaper. A subsequent clarification by the US Copyrights Office noted that it does not investigate legal ownership credentials and rather focuses on whether a particular work is eligible for a copyright, adding that all ensuing disputes are usually settled in courts. This then prompted the Crypto Open Patent Association (COPA) to sue Craig Wright in a UK court.
This brings us to the crux of the matter. While a final judgment in this high-profile case will likely take months to materialize, apparently the evidence against Craig Wright was so "overwhelming" that the judge made a series of declarations that utterly demolished Craig Wright's claims to the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto:
- Dr. Wright is not the author of the Bitcoin Whitepaper.
- Dr Wright is not the person who adopted or operated under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto from 2008 to 2011.
- Dr Wright is not the person who created the Bitcoin System.
- Craig Wright is not the author of the initial versions of
