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At the time of writing, we are about halfway through the COPA v Wright trial, and a few things have stood out to me. Solicitor Hough can’t seem to get past the fact that there could be people interested in Bitcoin as a system or a technology while not being greedily obsessed with the value of Bitcoin as an asset. He tears his glasses off in disbelief every time it comes up and blinks confusedly at Judge Mellor, looking for validation that no person could lack the greed that Hough would expect any person to have in such a situation. He keeps asking things like, “You wouldn’t have seen the price and thought to ask if your contributions were worth a lot of money” or “You expect us to believe you didn’t know the price was going up in 2014?” And the fact is that the witnesses he has been asking have been almost unanimously Australians who really seem like genuine people who worked with Dr. Wright and wanted to see his ideas work because they cared about watering trees that might grow fruit that they themselves would never harvest. COPA is trying to prove that Dr. Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, and they are doing it by trying to show that his life’s work and documents are all fantasies or forgeries and that if he was Satoshi, he would have the same eccentricities and values as a modern BTC developer. But this is a red herring. In reality, Dr. Wright’s papers, his known work, his alleged work, and the testimonies of multiple family members, business partners (current and former), work colleagues, and clients of Wright have all said the same thing: “he cared so deeply about our security, immutable logs, honest record keeping, and revolutionizing payments.” And they all talk about his…

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Filed under: News - @ February 20, 2024 3:22 pm