Australian computer scientist Craig Wright has found himself on the losing end of a bitcoin-related copyright case. It has been decided by a U.K. judge that the file format of the bitcoin blockchain project can’t be protected by any form of copyright law.
Craig Wright Holds a Losing Torch
Wright has been at the center of controversy in the crypto space for several years. Not long ago, Wright made the claim that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of the world’s number one digital currency by market cap. He claims to have written the 2008 whitepaper that first introduced bitcoin to the world on Halloween of that year.
In a recent copyright case, Wright says that as the inventor of the asset, he should be allowed to block any operation of bitcoin and all systems that derived from it (i.e., bitcoin cash) as they breach the intellectual property…
