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Day 11 of the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) v. Craig Wright trial featured cross-examination of Wright’s witnesses. On Monday, Qudos Bank CIO David Bridges, Wright’s cousin Max Lyman, and nChain co-founder Stefan Matthews took the stand. Among several revelations, Lyman admitted that he could not recall if Wright showed him Bitcoin’s original whitepaper . For context, COPA is requesting that the UK High Court of Justice issue an injunction against Wright, a litigious supporter of Bitcoin SV (BSV), a hard fork of Bitcoin worth 99% less than BTC. COPA’s lawsuit centers on Wright’s claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin and author of its whitepaper. In this lawsuit, for the first time, a judge will determine whether Wright owns the copyright to Bitcoin’s whitepaper. As plaintiff, COPA wants a global ban on Wright asserting authorship or copyright over it. Monday was the beginning of the third week of proceedings — the most important of Wright’s career. Qudos B...

Legal teams for COPA called three expert witnesses to the stand.  The witnesses on Thursday are Craig Wright’s former coworkers. They testified via video from Australia. Eight days of testimony by Craig Wright in the UK High Court of Justice are complete. On Thursday, attention pivoted to cross-examination of expert witnesses.  Attorneys for the pro-Bitcoin plaintiff, the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), as well as the pro-BSV defendant, Craig Wright, began calling their opposition’s witnesses to the (virtual) stand. All witnesses from Thursday’s hearing testified via web conference from Australia. COPA members include Coinbase, Kraken, MicroStrategy, Block, and other well-capitalized crypto companies. They are suing Wright, who supports a forked version of BTC trading as BSV, and are hoping to gain an injunction that would prevent him from claiming he wrote or owns the copyright of Bitcoin’s whitepaper. On Thursday, COPA lawyers questioned bioinformatician Ignatius...