Craig Wright trial reveals never-before-seen emails from Satoshi Nakamoto
The second week of the Crypto Open Patent Alliance ( COPA ) v. Craig Wright trial continued on Thursday and saw witnesses Mike Hearn, Howard Hinnant, and Zooko Wilcox take the stand to answer cross-examination questions. This UK High Court of Justice lawsuit will resolve the question of whether Craig Wright owns the copyright to Bitcoin’s whitepaper. COPA is suing Wright seeking a court-ordered injunction preventing Wright from asserting authorship claims. On this particular day of this high-stakes trial, the most important event happened outside the courtroom. As newly-introduced evidence, Blockstream CEO Adam Back, and early Bitcoin developer Martti Malmi published some of their never-before-seen emails with Satoshi Nakamoto on public servers. As the world reads through over 260 of these newly published emails, enjoy this example excerpt in the verbatim words of Satoshi: Historically, people have taken up scarce commodities as money, if necessary taking up whatever is at...