By : Craig Wright has filed copyright registrations for the and the early code with the US Copyright Office. It’s the latest step in Craig Wright’s battle to prove he is ’s creator and the man behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
bitcoin’s mysterious creator finally revealed?
Since 2015, Craig Wright, chief scientist of nChain and proponent of SV, has repeatedly claimed he is the creator of the world’s largest but has been unable to provide hard evidence.
Craig Wright filed a copyright registration for the whitepaper
— Neeraj K. Agrawal (@NeerajKA)
He was recently asked to by a US court to back up his claims. A request he complied with, but the addresses were redacted on public release.
Copyright registration for bitcoin whitepaper and code
Wright has filed copyright registrations for the white paper and most of the 0.1 version of ’s early software. Below are the two registrations in full:
U.S. copyright registration no. TXu 2-136-996, effective date April 11, 2019, for the paper entitled : A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, with year of completion 2008. The registration recognizes the author as Craig Steven Wright, using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
U.S. copyright registration no. TX-8-708-058, effective date April 13, 2019, for computer program entitled , with year of completion 2009 and date of first publication January 3, 2009. The registration recognizes the author as Craig Steven Wright, using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Wright wrote most of version 0.1 of the client software, and the registration covers the portions he authored.
However, as the executive director of CoinCenter, Jerry Brito, points out, anyone can register a copyright claim. It’s not necessarily proof of ownership or recognition by the US Copyright Office itself.
Registering a copyright is just filing a form. The Copyright Office does not investigate the validity of the claim; they just register it. Unfortunately there is no official way to challenge a registration. If there are competing claims, the Office will just register all of them.
— Jerry Brito (@jerrybrito)
A controversial move?
Despite the registration filing, many in the community will still have their doubts about the validity.
Numerous industry giants have slammed Wright as a “fraud” and labeled him “Faketoshi.” Wright has recently against his detractors and doubled down on his claims.
Master piece! You have my full support, Peter.
To be clear, I don’t choose sides on technology. We let market do that. I am against fraud, such as lying to be someone. As such, it is my strong opinion that:
Craig Wright is fraud.
— CZ (@cz_binance)
Wright filed a libel lawsuit against podcaster Peter McCormack, seeking damages of $130,000. He also took aim at founder Vitalik Buterin and threatened to reveal the identity of crypto influencer Hodlonaut.
The community kicked back, with CEO Changpeng Zhao delisting Wright’s SV from the exchange platform.
Craig Wright: I am Satoshi
The copyright registration will act as new ammo for Wright to support his claim to the Satoshi name. He maintains that he wanted to create an honest system of cash and that SV is the true vision.
“In order to clear up some areas around my history as the creator of for people, I need to point out a few fallacies. Firstly, there is the fallacy that Satoshi acted in a particular way. The reality is that as Satoshi, I interacted with people who held views that differed from mine. In creating , I sought to create an honest and legally enforceable cash system. To be cash, that is to be money, needs to be neutral. It is not a system that is friendly to but a system that is friendly to most people. Such are people who act across the law in a variety of ways.”
Published at Tue, 21 May 2019 13:24:32 +0000
