After Craig Wright’s unsuccessful court attempt to prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the Bitcoin white paper has been reuploaded to Bitcoin.org.
Following Craig Wright’s unsuccessful attempt in court to show that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous architect of the Bitcoin protocol, the white paper for Bitcoin has been reuploaded to the website for Bitcoin.org. The person who is responsible for maintaining the Bitcoin.org website, Hennadii Stepanov, made the announcement that the Bitcoin white paper will be returning by posting a link to the PDF version of the white paper on platform X.
Regulations forced Bitcoin.org to implement restrictions that prevented users in the United Kingdom from accessing the Bitcoin white paper. Instead, it displayed a profound quotation from Satoshi Nakamoto, which read as follows: “It takes advantage of the nature of information being extremely easy to spread but extremely difficult to stifle.
In 2021, Wright won his lawsuit against Cobra, the anonymous entity that operated the website, for copyright infringement. The lawsuit compelled the website to remove the white paper in PDF format. Wright won by default because the pseudonymous owner of the website, Cobra, chose not to mount a defense.
Because of this, Cobra had to pay Wright’s legal bills in the amount of £35,000 ($40,100). In 2019, Wright submitted an application for copyright registration in the United States for the Bitcoin white paper.
In 2023, Wright filed a lawsuit against thirteen Bitcoin Core developers as well as a number of organizations, including Blockstream, Coinbase, and Block, alleging that they had violated copyright laws concerning the Bitcoin white paper, its file format, and database rights to the Bitcoin blockchain.
In response, the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund brought attention to the growing pattern of abusive litigation filed against notable Bitcoin cryptocurrency donors. The defense fund believes that the time, stress, expenses, and legal dangers associated with this litigation discourage commercial development.
However, Wright’s copyright victory is no longer significant because his assertions that he is Satoshi Nakamoto and that he is the creator of the white paper have been conclusively disproved, which renders his copyright claim meaningless.
The Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a coalition of prominent corporations seeking to prevent Wright from asserting ownership over Bitcoin’s key intellectual property, made the decision in relation to a case against Wright. COPA accused Wright of engaging in a complex strategy of forgery and dishonesty to produce evidence that supported his claim that he was Nakamoto.
A court in the United Kingdom approved a scheme to prevent Craig Wright from escaping court expenses, leading to the freezing of his assets, valued at 6.7 million British pounds ($8.4 million).The Bitcoin white paper is currently subject to an open-source license through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which enables anybody to reuse and modify the code for any purpose.