Bitcoin.org, a prominent website that supports the development of the leading cryptocurrency, will have to remove all references to the Bitcoin white paper in the U.K. following the court’s decision.
Cobra, a pseudonymous Bitcoin developer behind the project, chose not to reveal his identity to defend himself in front of the court. Hence, a default judgement was given to Wright.
Apart from taking down the flagship cryptocurrency’s founding document, Cobra will also have to pay £35,000 ($48,655) in legal fees.
In January, lawyers representing nChain’s chief scientist demanded that Bitcoin.org and Bitcoincore.org remove the white paper due to alleged copyright infringement.
Their letters sparked a major outcry within the cryptocurrency community, with companies and even governments moving to publish the copies of Bitcoin’s white paper on their websites in a rebuke to Wright.
As reported by U.Today, the self-proclaimed Satoshi got sued by the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA), an anti-patent trolling non-profit founded by Jack Dorsey’s Square, back in April. Because of the lawsuit, Wright will be forced to provide actual evidence of him being the Bitcoin creator.
Dan Burgin
Vladislav Sopov
U.Today Editorial Team