The Bitcoin white paper has been uploaded back to Bitcoin.org restores white paper after Craig Wright’s failed attempt to establish his identity as Satoshi Nakamoto, the protocol’s pseudonymous developer. By posting a link to the PDF on platform X, Bitcoin.org’s maintainer Hennadii Stepanov declared that the white paper is back.
In the past, Bitcoin.org restores white paper had to restrict access to the white paper for people in the UK due to legal restrictions. Information is easy to transmit but hard to censor, as Satoshi Nakamoto so eloquently put it in a quotation that emblazoned the site instead.
Wright Won Copyright Infringement Case Against Cobra
The anonymous group running the website, Cobra, was sued for copyright infringement in 2021 by Craig Wright, who ultimately prevailed. Because of this, Bitcoin.org had to take down the PDF of the white paper, and Cobra had to pay £35,000 ($40,000) in legal fees as they decided not to defend themselves. In 2019, Wright had already registered the Bitcoin white paper for copyright in the US.
In 2023, Wright took his legal proceedings a notch higher by suing 13 Bitcoin Core developers and many corporations, such as Blockstream, Coinbase, and Block, for alleged copyright infringement over the white paper’s file format, database rights to the Bitcoin blockchain, and associated matters. As a countermeasure, the Bitcoin Legal Defence Fund highlighted the trend of hostile litigation levelled against prominent Bitcoin advocates.
These cases inhibit open development because they add stress, price, and time to the process, and they pose legal concerns. But now that his claims of being Satoshi Nakamoto and the author of the white paper have been completely debunked. Wright’s copyright triumph doesn’t mean much anymore.
An all-encompassing ruling was issued after the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) sued Wright. An alliance of notable businesses that sought to stop Wright from claiming ownership of the fundamental intellectual property of Bitcoin. According to COPA, Wright concocted a complex web of lies and forgeries to bolster his case as Nakamoto.
In addition, to prevent Craig Wright from avoiding paying court expenses, a court in the United Kingdom frozen his assets. Which were worth £6.7 million ($8.4 million). The Bitcoin white paper is now open source and licensed under. The MIT license, meaning anyone can use it or make changes to it.
Nakamoto may be a Collective Entity
At the same time, new evidence suggests that Nakamoto might be a group. There is some evidence that suggests a team could be working under a single pseudonym. As the Bitcoin white paper uses both “we” and “I” to describe the group. Linguistic examination of Nakamoto’s works provides additional proof.
Perfect grammar, spelling, and utilization of technical words are on display in this white paper. The fact that Nakamoto’s writing style varies throughout forums and email correspondences suggests that many people were active.
