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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...

Lawyers representing SBF have agreed to a gag order preventing him from making comments that could sway his criminal trial but says it should apply to other witnesses too. Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has agreed to a “gag order” which will prevent him from making comments to third parties that may interfere with his trial — but argues it should apply to all potential witnesses as well, including current FTX CEO John Ray. The gag order against Sam Bankman-Fried was initially requested on July 20, when the U.S. government accused the FTX founder of attempting to interfere with a fair trial by publicly discrediting former business partner and witness Caroline Ellison in an interview with the  New York Times. In a July 22 letter to United States District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of New York, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers Cohen & Gresser LLP denied the accusations but agreed to accept a gag order as requested. A gag order is a legal order often issued by a court to restrict informa...