The lawsuit follows previous court losses where Wright was unable to cryptographically prove he holds the private keys associated with Bitcoin’s genesis block, a critical element in verifying Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity.
Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Craig Wright has launched a lawsuit against Bitcoin Core developers, accusing them of altering the cryptocurrency’s protocol and causing financial harm. Wright is seeking over $1 billion in damages, claiming that recent upgrades to Bitcoin’s protocol have deviated from its original design and misled the public.
The case centers on protocol modifications introduced through Taproot and Segregated Witness (SegWit), which Wright claims have compromised the vision of the original Bitcoin protocol.
