Dr. Craig Wright squared off in court against the Crypto Open Patent Alliance in September over a number of applications made by both sides, ending with a ruling which saw the court slap down COPA’s most significant requests.
A court orders Dr. Craig Wright to pay the full legal costs of Peter McCormack and has requested the former to attend court over a possible breach of an embargo on the trial judgment.
Of course, the price matters to most regardless of whatever coping narratives one likes to construct, whether “only transaction volume matters” or “only use matters” or “only the court cases matter.”
Peter McCormack dropped his defense and his backers stopped funding him, and he lost on all 15 counts.
Nearly £10 billion class action lawsuit was filed this week in the United Kingdom against Binance, Kraken, Bittylicious, and Shapeshift over collectively delisting the BSV in 2019.
Dr. Craig Wright sued in libel over 14 tweets published by Peter McCormack and words spoken by him in a YouTube video between March and October 2019.
Judge Chamberlain will now decide whether to accept Dr. Craig Wright’s claim that his reputation was or was likely to be seriously harmed by blogger Peter McCormack’s tweets.
The analytics are crucial to the case because all that Dr. Craig Wright needs to succeed in his case against McCormack is to show that the tweets caused serious harm to his reputation in the United Kingdom.
The £90,000 relates to a series of filings by McCormack in 2021 in which he attempted to revive his abandoned legal defense at the eleventh hour.
As he made his Twitter exit, McCormack copped to being “a hypocrite” in his criticisms of the platform, noting that he was quite capable of “being a prick myself” in his interactions with other Twitter members.
Peter McCormack will now have to face Dr. Wright’s defamation claim at trial in May on the limited basis that though his attacks on Wright were untrue, they nonetheless still failed to cause him serious harm.
