Craig Wright Admits to Editing Bitcoin Whitepaper in Crypto Open Patent Alliance Trial

According to CoinDesk, Craig Wright, who claims to be the founder of bitcoin, admitted to making changes to the version of the bitcoin whitepaper he presented in the Crypto Open Patent Alliance's (COPA) trial. The trial, which completed its third week, aims to prove whether or not Wright is the anonymous creator of the bitcoin white paper. COPA wants to prove that Wright's claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto is a lie backed by "industrial style forgeries," and the bitcoin developers' lawyer Alexander Gunning is helping them. On Friday, Gunning demonstrated that Wright made edits to the bitcoin whitepaper in his "LaTeX files," which Wright agreed were accurate. Wright said the edits were simply a demonstration for his representatives at Shoosmiths, his law firm. Gunning accused Wright of tweaking parameters to fit the layout of the bitcoin whitepaper and uploading the file as recently as November 2023. The trial also saw witnesses such as Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn, Marti Malmi, and Adam Back testify about their interactions with Nakamoto. Wilcox-O'Hearn, a computer scientist and the founder of Zcash, said he wouldn't call himself "pals" with the pseudonymous Bitcoin creator. Malmi disputed the dates that Wright put forward about his interaction with Nakamoto, while Back, the CEO of bitcoin technology company Blockstream, showed an email he received from Nakamoto on Aug. 20, 2008. Next week, expert witnesses will be questioned in the ongoing trial.