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Craig Wright acknowledged revising the Bitcoin whitepaper documents submitted in the legal proceedings against COPA.
Alexander Gunning, representing Bitcoin developers, pointed out modifications Wright had made to his documents, specifically within “LaTeX files,” which Wright admitted. Wright explained that these adjustments were made for demonstration purposes for his legal team at Shoosmiths.
This latest development comes as the trial, which seeks to determine if Wright is indeed Satoshi Nakamoto, moved into its third week.
In Novemeber 2023, Craig Wright tried to make a version of the Bitcoin whitepaper in Latex. The below animation shows Craig graudually editing the file, to try to make the formatting match that of the real Bitcoin whitepaper, which was made with Open Office pic.twitter.com/804qzXfSAj
— BitMEX Research (@BitMEXResearch) February 23, 2024Gunning challenged Wright, suggesting that the modifications were self-serving rather than for any demonstration, emphasizing these were attempts to align the documents with the original layout of the Bitcoin whitepaper. According to Gunning, this file had been modified as recently as November 2023.
The cross-examination ended with Gunning directly questioning the legitimacy of Wright’s claim to being Satoshi Nakamoto, a claim Wright rebuffed under further examination.
Judge: Before the break, let me make one thing clear. You say all those changes were done for demonstration processes. However, what you disclosed was the end product? Why did you not disclose the starting point as the genuine whitepaper? Why did you not mention not to look at…
— BitMEX Research (@BitMEXResearch) February 23, 2024The session concluded the third week of hearings, highlighted by testimonies from both sides. Computer scientist Marti Malmi testified, contesting Wright’s timeline of their interactions with Nakamoto. Malmi clarified that contrary to Wright’s assertion of a February 2009 approach, their actual communication occurred on May 1, 2009, a discrepancy later supported by emails released on X.
