Craig Wright ruled out as Satoshi Nakamoto by judge, reports say

According to a ruling by Judge James Mellor in the United Kingdom on March 14, Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, as reported by BitMEX Research. The lawsuit brought by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) against Wright began closing arguments in London on March 12. Wright, an Australian computer scientist, has claimed to be Nakamoto since 2016. COPA sought injunctive relief to stop Wright from continuing to claim to be Nakamoto, as he has been accused of document forgery to support his claim. The trial started on Feb. 5, and while Wright offered to settle out of court on Jan. 24, COPA declined. COPA, founded in 2020, aims to promote the adoption and advancement of cryptocurrency technologies by removing patents as a barrier to growth and innovation. Its members include Coinbase, Block, Meta, MicroStrategy, Kraken, Paradigm, Uniswap, and Worldcoin. In 2023, Wright sued 13 Bitcoin Core developers and several companies, including Blockstream, Coinbase, and Block, for copyright violations related to the Bitcoin white paper, its file format, and database rights to the Bitcoin blockchain. In response, the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund stated that Wright filed a US copyright registration for the Bitcoin white paper and its code in 2019. The white paper is now subject to an MIT open-source license, allowing anyone to reuse and modify the code. A court injunction would prevent Wright from making further copyright claims on it.