The legal battle over the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin rights has taken a new turn in recent days, with a British judge rescheduling the trial between Craig Wright and Bitcoin Core developers for February 5 and also approving Bitcoin Core The developer's second application for security ordered Wright to pay an additional £800,000 (approximately $1 million) by January 5 to cover the developer's legal costs if he loses the case. Wright has deposited £100,000 ($127,000) as security deposit.
In 2016, Wright sued 13 Bitcoin Core developers and several companies, including Blockstream, Coinbase, and Block, accusing them of infringing upon his copyrights in the Bitcoin white paper, the Bitcoin file format, and the Bitcoin blockchain database. .
On December 15, during pretrial review, Judge Edward James Mellor allowed Wright to submit an additional 97 documents to support his claims. The documents, which were allegedly found on two USB drives in a drawer at his home in September, included files from LaTex - the open-source document preparation system used to draft the Bitcoin white paper.
Bitcoin developers accused Wright of fabricating evidence, forging and manipulating metadata, and deliberately prolonging the proceedings. According to them, the new documents came to light after they submitted 50 pieces of evidence to prove that Wright's previous submissions were forged. (Cointelegraph)