Everywhere on the internet, you would think you could read the white paper of Bitcoin on the Bitcoin.org website. For the English this was not possible for much longer.
Craig Wright, who claims to be the creator of Bitcoin, won a high court case this Monday (28) for forcing Bitcoin’s education website to remove the currency white paper from its website. This is the first success in its series of attempts to control who displays the founding document of the protocol.
At the televised hearing, a judge said that Zebra, the alternative operator of Bitcoin.org, should show a notice of judgment on its website, pay a minimum of 35,000 000 in court fees and remove the white paper. Zebra lost the case due to the default sentence; He did nothing to protect his name.
Wright claims that Bitcoin.org violated his copyright in the white paper, which he wrote under the pseudonym “Satoshi Nakamoto”. Wright’s vast battle to prove he was the creator of Bitcoin is still going on through the courts, but has often been rejected by society.
The order has not yet been delivered, Cobra told Decrypt. “If you continue to do that after that, you are breaking the law,” he said. A spokesman for ONTER LLP, a law firm that advised Wright about the case, said he did not know when the order would be issued.
ONTER LLP’s lawyer Simon Cohen said in a statement: “Dr. Wright does not want to be controlled. [sic] Access to your white paper. However, he does not agree that it should be used by supporters and developers of alternative assets such as Bitcoin Core, ”he said.
Translated and edited with the permission of * Decrypt.co
