Dr. Craig Wright won against Peter McCormack at a trial for defamation back in 2022 over a series of publications the blogger had made on social media calling Dr. Wright a fraud.
As a result, Dr. Craig Wright’s copyright and database rights case against the BTC partnership—which includes Core developers and entities within the ecosystem such as Coinbase—will proceed on all fronts.
It is a cruel irony that Ethereum and other blockchains had come to rely on large cloud computing firms like AWS when the original Bitcoin was designed to challenge them.
Dr. Craig Wright originally brought claims against the BTC partnership, including its developers and major industry players on three grounds: infringement of Dr. Wright’s database rights over the Bitcoin database, copyright infringement of the Bitcoin white paper and copyright infringement of the Bitcoin file format.
In this article, Jerry Chan explains why having a stable Bitcoin protocol also has some legal considerations that may become important as time goes on.
The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is on a PR blitz with its chief legal officer, Jessica Jonas, giving a slate of interviews in which she calls Dr. Craig Wright a ‘frivolous’ litigant who is intent on destroying open-source software.
The National Bureau of Economic Research released a working paper on U.S. households' attitudes toward digital assets, which sought to understand cryptocurrency investment decisions and motives.
In his recent TED talk, Ian Bremmer describes a world that is not multipolar in the geopolitical sense, but features combined efforts of tech companies as one of its major players.
The English Court of Appeal heard argument Thursday that the trial judge in Dr. Craig Wright’s successful libel action against Peter McCormack was not legally entitled to reduce the damages awarded in the case.
Satoshi Nakamoto's concept of anonymity is based on openness, as with the blockchain and its system of traceability, but it is also proposed for normative systems.
In this episode of the Wall Street Technologist podcast, Jerry Chan hosts Kurt Wuckert Jr. as they discuss the ins and outs of Bitcoin and how Dr. Wright came to light as the inventor of the system.
The U.S. Secret Service and the Bay Area Regional Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT) held a Reddit Ask Me Anything session yesterday, answering questions about the blockchain space.
