Craig Wright Grows Flustered During Cross-Examination In Satoshi Nakamoto Identity Trial

According to CryptoPotato, self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright became flustered during cross-examination on Wednesday as prosecutors presented evidence disputing his identity as Satoshi Nakamoto. Wright is accused of forging multiple documents to support his 'false narrative,' and expert witnesses, including his own, have agreed that the documents were likely tampered with. Wright began the day by criticizing the experts who found his prior evidence to be forgeries. He deemed Dr. Placks, a digital forensics expert with qualifications going back twenty years, unqualified due to his lack of a 'related' PhD or experience in a virtualized environment. Wright also dismissed another expert, Spencer Lynch, as unqualified, claiming that he doesn't meet the 'basic' level of the U.S. government's forensics framework. However, Wright's own current lawyer from Shoosmith contradicted his claim that one of his previous lawyers, Travis Smith, had hired Lynch, stating that they had introduced Lynch themselves. As the trial continued, prosecutors from the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) presented a series of Bitcoin-related documents supposedly produced by Wright before 2008, when the original Bitcoin whitepaper was published. They identified evidence of forgery for each document, ranging from altered metadata to the use of fonts that weren't available at the time they were purportedly written. In one case, COPA produced evidence that one of the notepads used to write a document was not available until 2012. Wright insisted that the witness from the notepad producer was wrong. Justice Edward James Mellor reportedly told Wright to 'calm down' during the proceedings.