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Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto. Confirmed by Mellor J just now in court. Judgment to follow in due course. "The evidence is overwhelming."
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The only watermarks today will be on the witness seat.
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Two best bits today from the CSW trial:
1. Patch Tuesday
CW has said a number of times previously that the reason for the gap between block 0 (the Genesis block) on 3 Jan 2009 and block 1 on 9 Jan 2009 was due to Microsoft 'Patch Tuesday'. This, however, occurred on Tuesday 13
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The decision has arrived. No, not that one. This is a decision from the EPO to revoke European patent EP3449450. This is a result of an opposition filed by
@Arthur_van_Pelt
in October 2022. This is the first nChain patent to be revoked.
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It's great seeing
@adam3us
schooling CSW's barrister on the difficulty adjustment. The white paper was a simplification, stating that difficulty was just about finding a hash with a leading number of zeros, while the actual code is more precise. CSW's barrister doesn't seem to
W: "This particular target hash is looking for a specified number of 0's in the target hash. In bitcoin the POW also looks for a number of leading 0's"
A: "In the bitcoin case the precision is much higher, to find a hash that is less than the target"
W: "I'm not quite sure"
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CSW appears to have confirmed what everyone has been suspecting for a long while, which is that for the 2016 signing sessions the Electrum source code was modified (which, as Shadders has shown, would be very simple to do) to provide a false verification output if the message
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What a great day that was. Watching Craig struggle under the relentless and masterful questioning from COPA, followed by drinks with some great fellow attendees and then a steak dinner (of course) with
@bitnorbert
and
@hodlonaut
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CW: My premise isn't that I want to prove I am Satoshi. I am Satoshi. I don't want my life's work misrepresented. I didn't ever want to be Satoshi, I want to be left alone to invent. This week I have written 3 pay-tents. I've done this the whole time. I'm doing many degrees. I'll
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A little reminder why nobody should have any sympathy whatsoever for Craig Wright. He fully deserves what is coming to him. He is, to put it very mildly, not a good person.
GM.
As we look forward to Day 2's cross-examination of
@Dr_CSWright
(which will, of course, be a car-crash), let's remind ourselves why we can be glad that he is, in NO way, the creator of
#Bitcoin
.
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Here I am, in case you want to say hello. Thank you to the nice Reuters lady for the picture.
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"In clear demonstration of the sincerity of my offer, I agree to waive my database rights and copyrights relating to BTC, BCH and ABC databases, and to offer an irrevocable licence in perpetuity to my opposing parties who collectively control, operate, and/or own those databases,
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This is an important point. It's similar to Roger Ver noticing that Craig didn't realise addresses had checksums. It seems that he also doesn't know early bitcoin addresses were public keys, not public key hashes. That alone definitively proves he cannot be Satoshi.
Lastly, regarding Wright's previous insistence that the Genesis block reward address doesn't have any public/private key, he says that it's hashed and only looks like a key but is actually keyless.
(The Genesis block reward is P2PK and not hashed.)
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I refer to
@bitnorbert
for detailed coverage, but the most interesting point in COPA's opening statement so far, which goes over lots of detailed analysis, seems to me a general point about the 71 out of 97 reliance documents from the BDO drive that have been shown to be
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Paragraph 2 says it all:
"Dr Wright presents himself as an extremely clever person. However, in my judgment, he is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is. In both his written evidence and in days of oral evidence under cross-examination, I am entirely satisfied that Dr Wright
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How many "patented inventions" does Craig Wright really have? We have heard various numbers over the past few weeks, typically in the range of a few thousand. CSW has himself stated that he has 4,000 and has an aim of getting 10,000. What is the reality though?
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As a patent attorney, I access files on a shared system all the time. It is important that documents originally submitted to the patent office remain unchanged to show any later amendments. It is utterly implausible that original documents would arbitrarily change over time.
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@AndrewOrlowski
"One of the book’s themes is women not receiving credit for their work or ideas." 😂
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Another killer one is from a supposed handwritten note on DeMorgan notepaper purported to pre-date the white paper (maybe claimed to be from 2002). It mentions EDDSA as a possible signature algorithm, along with ECDSA and RSA. EDDSA did not, however, exist until 2011.
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What we appear to know so far about Craig Wright's purported appeal against Mellor J's judgment finding him to be not Satoshi:
1. Wright says he filed an appeal on 5 August. This is, so far, not supported by any evidence.
2. His lawyers of record (Harcus Parker) in the COPA
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@bitnorbert
Here's a good killer argument. CSW's purported white paper from May 2008 cites Wei Dai. However, based on an email from the real Satoshi provided by Adam Back for this case, Satoshi was only aware of Wei Dai's work from August 2008. CSW's version cannot therefore be authentic.
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My view overall is that Back was a highly credible and reliable witness, responding accurately and truthfully on each point. Very good indeed.
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OMG, he doesn't know what an unsigned integer is. Even I know what an unsigned integer is. I am assuming this this is very very basic stuff.
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My interview with
@GavinMehl
(!), in which we discuss the Craig Wright Satoshi Trial, is coming up tomorrow, 18 Feb 2024. This was recorded on 14 February.
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An interesting thing I noticed yesterday: a highly reputable patent attorney firm that was representing nChain in multiple cases has recently withdrawn from representation for all of them. I wonder why?
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@lborouniversity
This is not a Zebra Crossing in accordance with Schedule 1, Part II of the Zebra, Pelican and Puffin Pedestrian Crossings Regulations and General Directions 1997. Pedestrians do not therefore have precedence.
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I am told that COPA is suing CSW for his "worthless patents". I checked the Particulars of Claim filed on 12 April 2021, which started the proceedings. It includes the word "patent" 3 times: twice when mentioning the full name of COPA, i.e. Crypto Open Patent Alliance, and once
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Day 3 just about to start. I'm sitting alongside
@bitnorbert
,
@hodlonaut
,
@RobinNakamoto
and
@imaginator
. Looking forward to some fireworks.
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Is this the kind of thing you have in mind,
@agerhanssen
? This is only a selection of letters to the European Patent Office I found from a few minutes of looking. All requests to add CSW as inventor (which are of course all on the public record) were accepted by the EPO.
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More capitulation from Craig Wright land today. He’s giving up this patent without a fight, it would appear.
Some good news arrived today. The new attorneys for nChain at Gill Jennings & Every appear to have noticed that the patent stands no chance of surviving, which of course we all know already. In a rather surprising move (I have never actually seen this happen before), they have
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I'm sure you've all be following Norbert's feed to keep up on today's action in court. I was there too but chose instead to take notes and avoid posting anything. Here are just some general thoughts from what I was observing.
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Some good news arrived today. The new attorneys for nChain at Gill Jennings & Every appear to have noticed that the patent stands no chance of surviving, which of course we all know already. In a rather surprising move (I have never actually seen this happen before), they have
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It took Hough 6.5 days to eviscerate Wright. Gunning has just done it in 20 minutes.
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In a line of questioning on Thursday morning, CW's work with Jamie Wilson came up. CW claimed this was early work related to Bitcoin. This is, of course, nonsense because CW only found out about Bitcoin in 2011 and didn't even know how to spell it properly.
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This looks to me like an offence under s2 of the Terrorism Act 2006. Is this something a BBC journalist should be doing?
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He's throwing so many different people under the bus today, including his own solicitors (e.g. they wouldn't let him see his own hard drive), I wonder who else he is going to bring up. Maybe even me or Arthur. He's getting quite close with all the accusations laid on Christen.
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I keep saying to anyone who will listen that Mellor J is extremely bright and very good at dealing with long and complicated cases. Take a look at this judgment from July last year as an example of what he has had to deal with. I guess the COPA v Wright judgment will be a similar
@xtraelv
@digitalnaut
Mellor is an IP specialist judge with an engineering degree from one of the highest ranked universities in the world, and is used to dealing with complex technical matters.
He's a sharp guy and absolutely isn't going to be bamboozled.
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I’m in court today keeping
@bitnorbert
company on his final day’s reporting. It’s pretty quiet here and I don’t expect we will see the main character. Three of his witnesses instead are on the stand.
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A date for your diaries: oral proceedings on the opposition against EP3449450B1 (Faketoshi01) are scheduled for 2 July 2024. The proceedings will be public and will be held by video conference.
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@agerhanssen
@opencryptoorg
@Dr_CSWright
I predict that COPA will win because Mellor J will find (among other things) that:
1. Craig Wright is an unreliable witness and therefore nothing he says in the trial can be taken seriously. Under cross-examination his numerous lies to date will quickly unravel as inconsistencies
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@SpeakServeGrow
I would go even further back than that. Why was it not a clear sign when Craig said he would provide proof by signing in 2016 and then failed to produce a valid signature?
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I'm just going to watch this an enjoy it. He's totally lost.
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I’m going to see Mr Justice Mellor tomorrow. Anything I should ask him?
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To get a reasonable number therefore, we can select those naming only CSW as inventor. This gives a total of 41 applications, 6 of which have been granted.
In answer to the original question therefore, we can say that CSW has only 6 patented inventions to his name.
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CSW was asked by COPA to provide a list of all those who received a pre-release copy of the white paper. Of the 21 people CSW listed, only 2 (Stefan Matthews and his uncle Don Lynam) have actually supported this claim, but their evidence is very shaky. The remain 19 have said
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@adam3us
Looks like it will be next week, probably 9 May, with parties seeing the draft this week. That’s what I hear anyway. He seems happy about it.
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I'm here for my 4th and final day attending the COPA v Wright trial in person. Craig has just turned up in yet another different suit. I'm still in the same one, but I do have a different shirt and tie on. We're ready to go in 10-15 minutes.
#faketoshitrial
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Is BItcoin a cryptocurrency? Craig says no but Satoshi said yes.
"There's only one Satoshi and it's me" says Craig.
Satoshi emails indicate the word cryptocurrency could be used to describe Bitcoin and would be a good shorthand description.
We continue a rather semantic
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It's quite a different experience watching on the live stream. You don't get sight of the documents they are referring to but you do get a clear view of the participants' expressions. I can see how this might make some viewers think that Craig is winning. He isn't, of course.
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Interesting comments by CSW about having 7 pay-tents on Bitcoin being Turing complete. I think I know which ones they are, and 3 of them have been opposed because they are invalid and will most likely be revoked in a few months.
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Now the purported Kleiman email, sent to Ira in 2014. Email was apparently sent from an information defense dot com address in 2008, but the domain was not created until Jan 2009. Timestamps were also inconsistent. CSW's excuse was a change of server, but this was debunked by
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This is now available to view, if you can bear it.
My interview with
@GavinMehl
(!), in which we discuss the Craig Wright Satoshi Trial, is coming up tomorrow, 18 Feb 2024. This was recorded on 14 February.
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“We are keen to ensure that the court is not misled”.
[1/2] Craig's own barrister presented this remarkable letter to the court as evidence. Craig’s former lawyers
@OntierLLP
stated that an email provided via Craig’s wife “is not genuine”
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Finally, some notable Craig quotes from today:
"I have 4,000 to 5,000 pay-tents filed" (so what; this has nothing to do with the allegations in question)
"Neither is an expert in the technology in question" (commenting on the joint report from the experts on both sides and
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Gunning has now caught CW out on the mention of checkblockheader in a Word document submitted as a reliance document by CW and claimed to be from 2008. The function was, however, not introduced until 2012 and by Pieter Wuile (who appears to be in court today). CW again stumped.
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The degree of willful misunderstanding here is off the scale. Literally incredible.
I do not wish to give others the impression that I am convinced that Judge Mellor declared in his oral statement at the closing that Dr. Wright is not Satoshi.
It is possible that he just announced the declaratory issues he was going to decide on in the written judgment.
Here
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Gunning is questioning CW about technical details of Bitcoin, including when the term 'UTXO' was first used (2012), which CW didn't know, and functions in the software. He describes the check transaction function and asks CW what it involves. CW then goes on to describe checking
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Here’s something I prepared earlier, noting CSW’s comments yesterday about using his pay-tents against Taproot.
🧵CSW is apparently claiming that the Taproot implementation of Bitcoin infringes an nChain patent, specifically EP3420669B1. He claims there are others. Here is a link to the patent:
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Now we're looking at another copy of a purported draft of the white paper, which is a reliance document. Now showing a tweet from Calvin Ayre mentioning a copy with rusty staples. CW argues that Calvin is not a supporter and is does not provide financial support (!!??).
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Interesting comment from Steve "Shadders" Coughlan, co-inventor with Craig on many nChain patent applications:
"most of his ideas don't actually solve problems I've had to deal with in real life, they only create dependencies on his patents"
This certainly fits what I have seen.
@zbingledack
@LolSoUnhinged
@Streaming_Sats
Earlier I probably did, but I had just returned to Bitcoin after a long absence and missed the blocksize wars. On reflection what he was saying about that was something any bigblocker like Mike Hearn could say.
On Selfish mining I found he was wrong, by actually running a real
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There was a lot of talk about BlackNet, which to be honest got a bit tedious. It was clear that CSW had copied sections of the real white paper, pasted them into documents that, in their original form, pre-dated the white paper, made some edits to change the wording a bit and
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And there it is. See you in Court 30 tomorrow. Rolls Building 4th floor. Overspill in Court 9 (presumably by video link) on the second floor.
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Great explanation here of why CSW’s story about anachronistic C++ libraries in his supposed early code is total fantasy.
@tuftythecat
@Pat_McCat
@freddienew
No, but he's basically saying that he's using a completely different library called Project Chrono, a physics simulation engine.
But he is obviously not familiar with C++ terminology, as he refers to it as a standard library on a specific platform, as if there are multiple
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Congratulations Peter. Just found it on the Supreme Court website here. Looks like they made the decision just before Christmas. I wonder why it took a month for you to find out?
My lawyers have just confirmed that Craig Wright has had his final appeal denied by the Supreme Court.
It is over, I won, welcome to law Motherfucker!
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CSW then went on to quite calmy deny all allegations of manipulation and forgery, coming up with increasingly implausible excuses but all with a tone that suggested it was all quite clear and COPA didn't know what they were talking about. No meltdowns and no "emotional
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How it was done, i.e. whether a faked Electrum website was engineered or modified software was otherwise loaded on the computer, is to some extent neither here nor there. It's clear that it was done, and that's also why the hard drive was apparently destroyed later.
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Now going through the failed signing sessions and follow-up. We know all this. In short, in 2016 CSW promised to sign, failed to deliver and then had a bit of a meltdown.
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Could someone with access to the transcript please count how many times Wright did this in the witness box.
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@agerhanssen
@CalvinAyre
Looks like the possibility of an appeal being filed just went down again.
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Just remembered another funny thing. The bitcoin devs managed to get into the password protected file on the BDO drive by cracking the password, which turned out to be “bitcoin11”. CSW’s barrister said that suggested they had nothing better to do and spent a lot of effort on it.
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The 'BlackNet' paper, claimed to be from 2001, had an abstract with wording from the 2009 version of the white paper, rather than the previous 2008 version. Lots of obvious manipulations and inconsistencies. Turns out BlackNet was just about digital security, nothing to do with
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@369bsv
Sorry to burst your bubble Scott but you’re dead wrong on this. The forged email was Craig’s not Ontier’s. Do you really think that a law firm would forge a document and lie to the court?
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Has Roger replaced Craig as the most hated man in Bitcoin, or is this just temporary until the COPA judgment comes out?
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@adam3us
Now Gunning is following up with the actual Bitcoin code main.cpp file from 10 Jan 2009, specifically the CheckBlock function, which does not deal with leading zeros but checks that the hash is less than a target. Confirms Back's interpretation.
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I'm way out of my depth on the descriptions of various bits of code in the Bitcoin software, but I can see that Gunning is showing quite clearly that CW hasn't the first clue. He doesn't even recognise a moved bit of code being marked green on GitHub. "I don't use GitHub" he
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CW: I don't have the originals. GMX was hacked, Vistomail was closed. Everything has been lost.
JH: You've never provided evidence in support of paying for the bitcoin domain name, nobody has kept a copy of an original paper, you have questioned the veracity of your own reliance
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This is exactly what is happening. He is most definitely not winning.
Somebody in r/BSV said they felt Craig was being given too much leeway to steer the cross examination and that
#BSV
fanbois were lapping it up as him 'winning'
I think this might help explain the process better:
In short, conman
@dr_cswright
is being dog-walked by
@opencryptoorg
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Are you being tracked by the Lightning Sharks? Bi-weekly updates and daily media reports have been provided to nChain for a number of social media accounts on Twitter, Reddit, Nostr and YouTube. I am on the list of tracked accounts, as evidenced here. Are you too?
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Back after a break. CW being accused of manipulation by setting the date of a document to be in the future, when he swore that he had not done any manipulation or forgery. CW disagrees, this is not manipulation but creation.
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The term UTXO was also not used until 2012, but CW has used the term in his reliance documents, together with reference to a UTXO pool, which also wasn't referred to by that name at the time.
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Back after lunch. Straight into the questions to CW about his LLM dissertation. A complicated story about what was included in the thesis provided by the University. Did it include the proposal?
Statement of truth from CW says it was not attached.
There appears to be an argument
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Just to be clear, I am not being "paid by career troll Arthur van Pelt to try to strike out as many of nChain’s patents as possible". This is a lie from fake CoinGeek reporter "Jordan Atkins". Arthur managed to scrape together the official fees for only 3 oppositions thanks to
@Arthur_van_Pelt
@agerhanssen
@CalvinAyre
@TurkeyChop
@Dr_CSWright
Here you go
@Arthur_van_Pelt
, the list of potentially defamatory articles about you on Coingeek:
How can this article not be defaming you?
Seems like a letter written from a UK lawyer could start the investigation from
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This is one of the witnesses on the stand tomorrow. Seems to be a long time fan of CSW.
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CW tries to explain himself by not having looked at the code since 2017. "Do I remember all the functions off by heart? No".
G: Satoshi would have remembered how that function worked.
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G: This is very compelling evidence that you incorporated elements that could not have possibly come from 2007-2008.
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Lord Grabiner KC starts today's proceedings with some statements about patents. This is something I know a bit about. His first point relates to CSW's alleged first pay-tent about Bitcoin. This was to do with work he did with Jamie Wilson in around 2011. This had nothing to do
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JH: You wanted to get to 100 witnesses to support your claim. You have only 2 who claim to have had the white paper before its release - Matthews and your uncle.
CW: Matthews never provided funding for me. Ignatious Pang was involved. Rob (MacGregor) was involved. Dave Bridges,
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Exactly. It was hard to spot any significant points of law being argued in the trial, so there will be little if any scope for appeal.
@AussieDaz81
Mellor J will refuse permission to appeal. Craig would have to apply to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal.
I believe he will fail because the trial was largely about factual issues, not law, and Mellor J's decision will have been based mainly on Craig's hopeless...
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It's about time I did another update on where nChain's patenting activities are, in case anyone is still interested. The current news is that they are still continuing to get new applications published and granted at the EPO. There is no sign that activity is slowing down in
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Taking pictures from within the court or the live stream is strictly forbidden and could constitute contempt of court. It has come to my attention that this was done yesterday. I expect Mr Justice Mellor will remind everyone at start of proceedings today. Don’t do it.
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@digitalnaut
He is deliberately misrepresenting the developers' argument, which is that they do not have a fiduciary duty at all. He is twisting it to be that the developers are in charge and are refusing the change the code, which is not correct. The developers can change the code, but so
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Someone please explain to me how getting a patent proprietor to revoke their own patent is somehow an attempt to “steal intellectual property”.
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In other news, I swam 15km this weekend. Time for bed.
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Wow. Craig has filed a patent application this week, the invention disclosure for which dates back to 2008. That is quite something.
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After a long wait, a response from
@nChainGlobal
's patent attorneys was filed yesterday on the first opposition filed by
@Arthur_van_Pelt
, which was against European patent EP3449450B1. For background, I recommend reading this post from last year:
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It's interesting that Grabiner KC is referring to Article 10 ECHR relating to freedom of expression. According to CSW, this does not apply to anyone saying unkind things about his pay-tents. I know this from experience.
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