It’s time to end Satoshi Ben’s campaign of harassment against Bitcoin developers

Text: Paul Grewal, chief legal officer of coinbase
Original title: Time to End Craig Wright's Harassment Campaign Against Bitcoin Devs. 2024.2.1

Translator's Note:In the self-proclaimed "Australian Satoshi" Craig Wright After Ben Satoshi and successively used legal actions and other means to threaten Bitcoin core developers to force them to leave Bitcoin's technical maintenance work for many years, the industry finally couldn't bear it and decided to fight back. Then the COPA Alliance (Crypto Open Patent Alliance, Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance) was formed, and went to court with Satoshi Aoben on February 5, 2024.

The following is the litigation schedule:

At the beginning of the month, one of the COPA alliance members’ coinbase transaction Paul Grewal, the chief legal officer of the firm, published this promotional article on coindesk, which is intended to briefly explain to the public why it is necessary to fight against Satoshi Aoban to the end.

Note: Oben Satoshi was assigned to Craig Wright by the Chinese community The nickname is Satoshi Nakamoto because he is from Australia and calls himself Satoshi Nakamoto, so he is named Satoshi Satoshi Nakamoto. In 2018, Satoshi Ao hard forked BCH, the hard fork of BTC, and named it BSV. Under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, he attracted countless people to join BSV and made a lot of money.

Subtitle:Craig Wright has repeatedly told people who doubted that he is Satoshi Nakamoto lawsuits, hurting countless cryptocurrency practitioners in the process. On February 5, the Crypto Open Patent Alliance will file a lawsuit in court aimed at stopping this behavior.

The following text:

Oben Satoshi claims to be a mysterious person Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. He is not.

However, Satoshi Oben was not intimidated by this basic fact. He used his strong financial support to base his accusations on cryptocurrency based on this lie. Developers filed endless baseless lawsuits, many of which were unable to afford even the most basic defense. This is completely opposite to the vision of Satoshi Nakamoto’s 2008 white paper. This is a drain on the talent and spirit of the entire crypto economy and must stop immediately.

Three years ago, members of the cryptocurrency industry came together to form the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a A tool for sharing cryptocurrency innovations publicly is also a tool for protecting each other from false intellectual property infringement claims that plague much of the tech industry. COPA quickly realized that Satoshi's litigation activities were a tax on the development of cryptocurrency, and that the actors he targeted simply could not fight back on their own. Therefore, on April 9, 2021, COPA filed its own lawsuit, asking the court to declare once and for all that Satoshi Obito is not Satoshi Nakamoto.

Next week, starting on February 5, the case will finally go to trial. But the trial is about much more than exposing Satoshi Oban’s delusions. COPA is dedicated to fighting bullies like Satoshi Oban, whose intent is to “personally hunt down every developer until they are broke, impoverished, and alone.” It’s time to end his campaign that cuts to the heart of our industry and clarify that Satoshi Obito is not Satoshi Nakamoto and therefore cannot use false intellectual property claims to thwart progress.

It’s long past time for the Bitcoin white paper and the true spirit of open source to prevail.

O Ben Satoshi’s retaliatory activities caused personnel losses

Over the years, Satoshi Omoto has used litigation as a weapon against anyone who questions his Satoshi Nakamoto claims. Through numerous lawsuits and frantic litigation tactics, he sought to financially drain as well as mentally torture his opponents. This includes the entire community of Bitcoin developers, many of whom have contributed to the growth of the Bitcoin ecosystem without ever expecting any financial reward.

Oben Satoshi's harassment is not limited to court cases. He also sent a sinister message to developers, threatening to use the legal system to destroy their lives and their families' safety and livelihoods. Hard-working individuals have also been forced to abandon important Bitcoin development work because they had reason to fear lawsuits they could not fight, or that they and their loved ones were deeply harmed by Satoshi's coercion.

Trial: Lack of evidence, forged documents and fraud against Satoshi Oban

Although Satoshi Obeng vigorously promotes his claims, even when questioned in lawsuits, he has repeatedly been unable to produce any real documents to support his claims. He repeatedly provided forged documents to the court. He failed to fulfill his promises, such as signing transactions with Satoshi's key. He has promised in other cases that he would "call 90 or 100 people" to prove his case, but failed to provide a single disinterested person.

"Satoshi Omoto claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, which poses a potential threat to the existence of Bitcoin"

Satoshi's library of fake documents is at the center of COPA proceedings starting next week. In fact, two experts hired by Satoshi himself have admitted that many of Satoshi's documents were forged.

Next week in court, COPA will begin charging Satoshi with tampering, including:

1. Word documents with wrong dates: Multiple Word documents provided by Satoshi Auban as evidence were tampered with and looked like they existed before the Bitcoin white paper was published.

2. False handwritten documents: Many of the handwritten documents used as evidence by Satoshi Ao Ben were written on pre-printed notepads , and these notepads did not appear until 2008, many years after the real Satoshi Nakamoto shared the white paper.

3. Fraudulently modified PDF version of the white paper: Multiple PDF versions of bits provided by Satoshi Ao for this lawsuit The coin white paper was deliberately modified to look like an early draft. But the metadata and fonts included didn’t appear until 2017.

4. Forged email evidence: A large number of emails provided by Satoshi Aoben forged dates and tampered with the sender and Recipient Information. Furthermore, the domain names used in these emails were not registered by Satoshi until many years after the date shown in the emails.

5. Forged Hard Drive: In October last year, when the evidence in the COPA case began to pile up against his false accusations, Satoshi Oban said he had just "discovered" a hard drive from 2007 that contained evidence that he began preparations for the white paper 15 years after it was published. Last week, Satoshi's own experts announced that the drive was fake and that some of its contents appeared to have been generated using ChatGPT.

Oben Satoshi claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, which poses a potential threat to the existence of Bitcoin. If Satoshi's claims prevail, fundamental parts of the Bitcoin community will grind to a halt. Those of us who care about the future of cryptocurrencies and the urgency of updating the global financial system cannot tolerate this. Satoshi Ben must be permanently prevented from making such claims, threatening developers and companies with fraudulent intellectual property lawsuits, and draining valuable time and resources that should be used to build innovative products needed for the modern financial system.

COPA is committed to pursuing this litigation to the end. COPA members, including Coinbase, understand that those of us with the resources must not hesitate to pursue these fundamental fights. In the final days before trial, we are extremely grateful for the court’s careful attention to our case and its careful review of the evidence (or “testimony” in Satoshi’s case) presented by both parties.

We are proud to lead the charge today and tomorrow on behalf of developers and every participant in the crypto-economy. We won’t stop until developers are freed from the threats, expense, and fear that fraudsters like Satoshi O’Hara have endless funds to do to them and the entire cryptocurrency industry.