Scientist Who Says He Created Bitcoin Can Sue Mystery Website

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  1. themickey

    themickey

    Scientist Who Says He Created Bitcoin Can Sue Mystery Website
    Aoife White, Bloomberg News https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/scientist-who-says-he-created-bitcoin-can-sue-mystery-website-1.1594386
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    Craig Wright, self declared inventor of Bitcoin, arrives at federal court in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., on Friday, June 28, 2019. Wright must reveal how much of the digital currency he owns in a suit accusing him of swindling a collaborator out of more than $5 billion, half of the alleged stash. , Bloomberg

    (Bloomberg) -- An Australian scientist who says he created Bitcoin won the backing of a London court to pursue the mystery owners of the bitcoin.org website for allegedly infringing his copyright over the world’s largest cryptocurrency.

    Craig Wright can serve a lawsuit on Cobra, the operator and owner of bitcoin.org, outside of the U.K. that would require the site to remove the seminal 2008 white paper that sparked the currency, Wright’s lawyers said in a statement citing an April 21 ruling from London’s High Court. Wright doesn’t know the identity or identities of Cobra, according to his legal claim.

    Multiple people have claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym for the person or people who worked on the software for the peer-to-peer currency. Bitcoin’s back story adds to a rollercoaster ride that saw it rocket to new record highs this year as big financial players introduced funds that made it easier for investors to add crypto to portfolios.

    Wright is involved in several court cases that could help prove or disprove his claim to be Satoshi. He registered in 2019 for U.S. copyright for the white paper and early computer code underlying Bitcoin.

    Bitcoin.org’s Cobra has refused to recognize Wright as Satoshi, saying he hasn’t provided a known PGP public key which would make it “cryptographically possible for someone to verify themselves to be Satoshi Nakamoto,” according to a January blog post. Wright’s claims “are without merit,” Cobra said.

    Wright’s legal claim quotes an expletive-laden Twitter direct message from Cobra saying Bitcoin.org isn’t based in the U.K. “and Craig’s copyright claims over the whitepaper can be easily verified to be false.”

    Wright is seeking a declaration that he owns the copyright to the Bitcoin white paper, according to the statement. He does not want to restrict access to the white paper which he has posted on his blog, it said.

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  2. danielc1

    danielc1

    Why does everyone thinks it is a man that invented the bitcion?
     
  3. ZBZB

    ZBZB

    he says he invented it.
     
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  4. Daal

    Daal

    Never forget: the day Craight Wright had a Freudian slip about "his" white paper

     
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  5. Pekelo

    Pekelo

    He is a lot of things but not a scientist.
     
  6. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak {and/or post} and to remove all doubt"

    Craig Steven Wright (born October 1970) is an Australian computer scientist and businessman. He has publicly claimed to be the main part of the team that created bitcoin, and the identity behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. These claims are regarded as false by much of the media and the cryptocurrency community.
     
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  7. terr

    terr

    He can easily prove he is Satoshi, if he is. There is a huge wallet that belongs to Satoshi that has not been touched forever. All he has to do is pre-announce that he will transfer 1BTC out of it on a certain date, then do it.
     
  8. then why he doesn't move just a satoshi from the address of Satoshi Nakamoto with the 1 million bitcoins? he forgot the pass?:fistbump: