The Bitcoin white paper has been reuploaded to the Bitcoin.org website after Craig Wright’s unsuccessful court attempt to prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the protocol’s pseudonymous creator.Due to legal constraints, Bitcoin.org was forced to restrict access to the Bitcoin white paper for UK-based users. Instead, it displayed a poignant quote from Satoshi Nakamoto: ‘It takes advantage of the nature of information being easy to spread but hard to stifle”.
Wright won by default after the website’s pseudonymous owner, Cobra, chose not to mount a defense. This resulted in Cobra paying £35,000 of Wright’s legal fees. Wrightand a group of companies, including Blockstream, Coinbase and Block, for copyright violations relating to the Bitcoin white paper, its file format and database rights to the Bitcoin blockchain., highlighting the trend of abusive lawsuits against prominent Bitcoin contributors.
The detailed ruling came in relation to a case brought against Wright by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance , a coalition of prominent companies seeking to prevent Wright from asserting ownership over Bitcoin’s core intellectual property.The Bitcoin white paper is now subject to an MIT open-source license, allowing anyone to reuse and modify the code for any purpose.
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