Make no mistake - this was an evisceration. Wright's documentary evidence was as watertight as a chicken wire submarine, and his witnesses gambit failed utterly. He has literally no cards to play in the
@hodlonaut
UK case.
Fascinating.
To BSV losers, if you lost money, you can sue Craigie et al. and recover.
He made false claims. He said $1,200, he said enterprise adoption... this is fraudulent misrepresentation.
You lose a cent, he owes you.
That is the law when these scum befit through a deception
I'm sure this timing is totally coincidental, just like when Craig Wright decided to leave nChain the day after
@agerhanssen
outed his forgeries.
Just...one of those things.
Something to remember: Craig Wright petitioned for the passing off and copyright cases to be reliant upon the outcome of the identity trial he has just lost. He put all his eggs in one basket and then forcefully shat on them from a great height.
5D chess my arse.
Craig Wright tried to get evidence from the Kleiman case thrown out of COPA case. Judge today said the evidence is relevant to the "credibility of the defendant" and "to the question whether the defendant has a propensity to forge or tamper with documents".
It stays in.
Grammarly confirms that encoded timestamps don't present differently across the versions, meaning that Craig was talking out of his hat.
Another one bites the dust.
#grammarlygate
#copavswright
Remember "settlement offer"?
Remember "Meta leaving COPA sinking ship"
Remember "Craig will sign in court"?
Remember "stenographic watermark"?
Remember "Madden's evidence is destroyed"?
Welcome to law
#copavswright
Just had a very interesting conversation with a top IP lawyer who actually laughed out loud at Craig Wright's claim here. In short, CSW is completely wrong and
@mindspillage
is 100% right, so a competent IP judge will throw this argument out.
#craigwrong
Craig didn't lie or make misleading statements, apparently. His appeal will show that it was all just a massive misunderstanding. Note, no comment on the misleading documents or the Madden report. Also note, he respects the court process and does NOT think the judge was bought.
Side note,
@nchain
is also scrubbing
@agerhanssen
's name from press releases and making it look like Stefan Matthews was CEO the whole time.
Here's the PR from March () and rewritten over the weekend ()
What a professional company.
What's delicious about this latest development is that if Craig Wright bankrolls his own lawsuits in the UK then he's perjured himself in Florida where he's told the court he has no money.
If ever there was a time to call on those Tulip Trust trustees it's now, right?
CSW appeal update:
Hearing that the court wasn't too happy with Craig's 500+ page diatribe and he has been asked to cut it down considerably.
He has a week to comply, so new deadline is likely middle of next week.
Update in the W&K ownership case (look away, Craig Wright fans) 🫣
Last week, Lynn voluntarily dismissed the case, meaning that Craig Wright's story that she owned 1/3 of W&K is now deader than disco.
So to all of you screeching about who owns W&K...the answer is Ira Kleiman.
BSV £10 billion class action lawsuit update 📢
For those who don't know, an outfit called BSV Claims is suing Kraken, Binance, Bittylicious and Shapeshift for £10 billion on behalf of BSVers over the alleged coordinated delisting of BSV in 2019.
👇
Craig Wright's Form of Order hearing is confirmed for this Friday, June 7th. Will be an open court session and Dr Bitcoin will be there for a boots-on-the ground- report.
In this hearing we'll learn about the various punishments Wright is going to receive and more.
When you hear the BSV camp claiming that COPA targeted poor Craig Wright cos it's greedy and evil, remember:
1) Craig initiated it with his cease-and-desist letter to Square over the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2019
2) Calvin was delighted by it
I wonder how happy he is now.
To the BSVer who got my LinkedIn post with a snippet of the COPA vs. Craig Wright podcast banned as an attempt to "promote, sell or attempt to purchase illegal or dangerous goods or services," LinkedIn has agreed with my appeal and reinstated the post.
You absolute clown.
Just Calvin saying that he left the match-winning evidence in a drawer, but he'll wheel it out for the appeal where you're almost never allowed to enter new evidence.
I mean you would have thought...
After working my ass off to make up for some necessarily large outlays (and bad trades), I finally reached a goal and now have one whole bitcoin for the first time since May 2021.
Might not sound like much to whales, but with money as tight as it is I'm very pleased.
One of the COPA team just confirmed that a ruling from the bench in this manner is "exceptionally rare".
Which is also how I would describe Craig's chances of avoiding jail.
Justice Mellor openly laughing as he thanks Dr Pang for his testimony! That was about as bad for Craig as it could have been - Pang admitted to his recollections being hazy and all but admitted that Craig used his name to try and con the ATO our of five grand.
That time in 2019 when Craig Wright told a Financial Times event that in 2020 he was going to sell $8 billion worth of mined BTC and buy half a billion smartphones for children in South America "whether you like it or not".
Word is they're still waiting.
Craig Wright is casually undermining his entire bitcoin creation story in real time as, one by one, the people who helped him 'design' it all deny ever having met him.
Scenes.
C: Wrightson says he has no recollection of dealing with you.
W: My supervisor was contacted by your lawyers. His comment was I don't recall Craig at all. You just said "Craig". Either people like me, or they want to get me.
C: The paper you hyperlinked from your article wasn't
A nice line I caught today:
"Do you think Satoshi Nakamoto would be furiously putting in backslash or forward slash semicolons in whitepaper LaTeX files on the 17th or the 19th of November 2023?
I somewhat doubt it."
Bombshell Monday anyone? This is EXACTLY what we were promised in 2020, and nothing arrived. Wonder what they've been cooking up at nChain towers that will just happen to have been found at the bottom of a box...
This is bad, but for some context Calvin was part of a team that put $15 million into Craig in 2015. They wanted to be billionaires. In 8 years he's lost around $300m on Craig. If he had bought bitcoin with the $15m money he'd have been a billionaire in just over two years 🧠
BSV supporter
@369bsv
gets to court an hour early to find no one there, which Calvin takes as a sign that COPA is somehow intentionally keeping the trial under the radar!!
I just... I can't anymore.
Summary:
CSW: "Haha, all my assets are in someone else's name, can't touch me bro."
Judge: "How you gonna pay if you lose?"
CSW: "My company is worth $16.5 billion."
Judge: "They in the UK?"
CSW: "Yep."
Judge: "Says here you say they're in Seychelles."
CSW: 👀
Judge: "Pay up."
5/ Wright said that WII and he had sufficient assets. His only evidence was an unsubstantiated witness statement from his accountant Chesher asserting that WII has USD 16.5bn in assets (including 819,818 BTC, BCH and BSV). 🤷🏽♂️
To be hacked once may be regarded as a misfortune; to be hacked twice looks like carelessness; to be hacked at least 10 times says you don't know what the hell you're doing.
If you ever wanted an example of how Craig is rugging Calvin Ayre, consider this claim. CW used the 1feex wallet as collateral for a $15 million bailout from CA. The paper wallet is locked in a multi-key Singapore vault, but CW keeps backups of the keys on his home computer. 👇
Sadly it appears that Craig Wright's contempt of court hearing is not going to be viewable remotely, but I've emailed the court to double check. If it is I'll be doing my best to live tweet proceedings (although I am on holiday!)
BSVers act all high and mighty about price manipulation when they think the price is being depressed, but when BSV goes up suddenly all that is forgotten and it's all natural market dynamics for an undervalued project!
Priceless.
I've resisted blocking BSVers during the trial unless they were particularly aggressive, but after the ruling I'm going to start blocking anyone who says the ruling wasn't definitive, that the judge was bribed or any other such bullshit. That's pure delusion and I've seen enough.
@JasonADeane
And to think there were people keeping score throughout the trial and saying it was a close run thing, giving points to Wright based on his waffle!
A reminder that Craig Wright is forced to honour the father he hated rather than the mother he loved because Satoshi released the white paper on 31st October.
Says a lot about the man.
Some info from
@RobinhoodApp
on why it delisted BSV last month 🧵
tl;dr - BSV doesn't have support from third party miners or the developer community and its 51% attack highlighted the issues of listing minor forks. It's fundamentally insecure.
sauce:
So this is Craig's last chance to produce bombshell evidence, sign a block, or tell us where the watermark on the Bitcoin whitepaper is.
Guess which three things won't happen today?
I'm here with
@bitnorbert
and
@BitMEXResearch
to see what shakes down today. Hoping to produce something podcast worthy to cover the events of the day.
I've already been star struck: Alexander Gunning was standing behind me in the security queue and asked "are you Mark Hunter?"
@CryptoMichaelT
My son has autism too. That's why I'm in crypto. He's going to have a hard life, and I want to make it a bit easier for him. Every small step feels like a victory.
Craig Wright's pool of independent experts willing to back his cause was so shallow they had to resort to a lovelorn fan fiction-pedalling sycophant who publicly demonstrated his support even AFTER he was taken on as an independent expert.
The absolute state.
Remember when "leading digital currency exchange"
@CoinstoreExc
listed BSV in February? Apparently it was "another vital onramp for users" and reflected BSV's stampeding growth.
In September it ceased trading BSV without telling users, and has now delisted it!
CaRtEl!!
Yet again, no mainstream media at the court for the 'biggest financial trial in British history". Clearly COPA is still manipulating the media to stay away Shame on them!
What do you mean I'm an hour early?
Coming soon:
"Dr. Wright, does the Earth rotate around the sun?"
"I can't say for sure or not whether the Earth rotates around the sun. My lawyers may have written something that suggests the Earth rotates around the sun, but I never signed it off."
Here's a little bit about the
#copavswright
witnesses we can expect tomorrow. First, Ignatius Pang, who Wright claimed worked for his company, C01N, and whose employment he tried to use to claim $5,000 back from the ATO.
No invoice was ever found.
Wow, that was QUITE the list of people Wright says he sent the whitepaper to who never said they got it: 19 out of 21 never confirmed to have seen a copy.
Er, what exactly does Calvin Ayre think is happening in this trial? He's going to be somewhat surprised when the case ends and Craig has done no such thing. I assume suddenly then he will turn on the judge.
As Craig Wright's fate is decided in the courts today following his calamitous defeat to COPA, let's remind ourselves of his reaction to their formation back in September 2020 😬
Sitting in court close to a guy who has announced himself to a few of us here as being the real Satoshi Nakamoto. Not sure he's making the most of his time here though as he's been asleep for the last 20 minutes.
#sleepysatoshi
#copavswright
Afternoon thread for Wright vs McCormack starts here 👇
BTW, if you want to know why we're here in the first place check out my podcast with
@Arthur_van_Pelt
here:
Ok, so it seems that there is a GOLD MINE of Tulip Trading stuff that's been going on while we've been COPAing ourselves to death.
Bumper
@DrBitcoinPod
episode coming up at the end of the year.
So turns out that Sir Robert Buckland, former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain and
#Conservative
MP for South Swindon, has been in the pay of
@calvinayre
, one of ICE's ten most wanted people in 2013 and who was on the run from U.S. authorities for more than five years.
After a full night's sleep I still can't work out how being judged to have stolen $100 million of your dead best friend's assets means not only that you won the case, but also that you created the asset that you stole.
I just...I can't.