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Judge ‘still investigating’ potentially forged emails in Craig Wright trial

A journalist contacted a court clerk about documents introduced this week. Judge Mellor decided to reserve judgment about disclosing and/or allowing those documents as public evidence until the trial’s final verdict. The co-author of a joint statement on the software program used to create the original Bitcoin whitepaper, Arthur Rosendahl, took the stand as a witness. Wright’s legal team accepted certain conclusions regarding the Madden Report. The Coinbase, Kraken, Block, and MicroStrategy-backed Crypto Open Patent Alliance ( COPA ) is suing Craig Wright in the highest court in London. By the end of the trial , the High Court of Justice will determine whether Wright may assert authorship and copyright ownership over Bitcoin ’s whitepaper. Wright believes he is Satoshi Nakamoto and wrote the paper himself. COPA argues he’s ‘faketoshi.’ Central to COPA’s argument is an alleged forgery created using LaTeX, an advanced document editor based on a 1978 typesetting...

UK Law Commission report challenges Craig Wright's suit against Bitcoin developers

A report published by the UK Law Commission bolsters Bitcoin core developers' defense that they are not liable for 111,000 BTC taken by hackers. A recent report released by the United Kingdom Law Commission could weaken a central argument brought by Craig Wright in his controversial lawsuit against 12 Bitcoin core developers , argues the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund (BLDF). In a 300-page report on digital assets published in late June, the UK Law Commission — an independent body that reviews and recommends reforms to UK and Whales' laws — cited a classification of fiduciary duty that bolsters the developers' defense that they are not directly responsible for 111,000 Bitcoin (BTC) lost to hackers. Wright, owner of Tulip Trading, claimed in a 2021 lawsuit that developers involved in the open-source development of Bitcoin Core owed him a fiduciary duty in connection with his loss. In order to recover the allegedly stolen funds, Wright is seeking a backdoor into the Bitcoin Co...