Craig Wright, an Australian man who claims to have created Bitcoin, Satoshi Nagamoto, won an appeals motion in February 2023. This allowed his firm Tulip Trading Limited (TTL) to bring 16 open-source cryptocurrency developers before a jury.
A March 2022 dismissal was overturned by three judges. TTL seeks approximately $3 billion in stolen digital assets. TTL asserts that open-source blockchain developers must encode a digital asset retrieval tool. Bitcoinsv ( BSV) is a fork of Bitcoin Cash ( CH). It has already implemented a tool to recover digital assets.
After winning the appeal, Wright stated that TTL was granted permission to pursue its claim for breaching fiduciary duties and/or duty-of-care against developers of blockchain-linked digital assets, including bitcoin.
Gavin Andresen , a former Bitcoin core developer, revised a blog article he had written in May 2016. Andresen had previously written a blog post about his meeting with Craig Wright in which he stated that he believed Craig Steven Wright was the one who invented Bitcoin.
Andresen has updated the post to say that Wright was wrong to trust. Andresen wrote, “Feb 2023”: He doesn’t believe history can be rewritten, so I’m going leave this post up. “But, in the seven years that I wrote it, a lot of things have happened and I now realize it was a mistake not to trust Craig Wright as much I did.”
The former Bitcoin core developer also added:
I regret being sucked into the “who is (or not) Satoshi” game and refuse to play it anymore.
When it was first published online in 2016, Andresen’s post from 2016 received a lot of criticism. After publishing the post six years ago, Andresen also spoke with Reddit members about the situation.
“Craig signed a message which I chose (“Gavin’s favorite numerology is 11”) CSW’, if I remember correctly), using the private key of block number 1.’ Andresen stated at that time.
‘I took that signature with me to London on a USB stick and had it validated on a brand new laptop running Electrum. The message and laptop were not allowed to be kept ([for] fear that it might leak before the Official Announcement). His blog post doesn’t contain an explanation of the OpenSSL process.
Andresen later told the court during a Kleiman deposition on June 2020 that he could have been tricked during the 2016 signing process. There were places in the private proof session where I could have been deceive
. Someone could have changed the software being used, or perhaps the laptop that was delivered wasn’t brand new and had been altered in some way.
Andresen also noted that I was jet-lagged in his deposition. “My doubts arise because of the difference between the proof presented to me and the pseudo-proof later presented to the rest of the world.”
It is not clear why Andresen revised the post after Wright won an appeal and was granted the right to bring the developers to trial. Andresen’s change did not stop some BSV supporters from believing Wright is the creator Bitcoin. However, other BSV advocates have asked Wright to ‘demonstrate block signing’ in the same way he does privately.