Follow up with QuotesDr. Craig Wright awarded USA
Copyright for
Bitcoin White PaperThe USA Copyright office has awarded Dr. Craig Steven Wright the copyright for the original Bitcoin whitepaper, which Dr. Wright originally published online in 2008 under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
The copyright was awarded after the Copyright office was presented with the concrete proof that Dr. Wright was indeed the author of the seminal paper which started the Bitcoin revolution.
In addition to the original Bitcoin whitepaper, the USA Copyright office awarded Dr. Wright the copyright for most of the original Bitcoin code (version 0.1).
The copyrights can be found here.
U.S. copyright registration no. TXu 2-136-996, effective date
April 11, 2019, for the paper entitled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, with year of completion 2008. The registration recognizes the author as Craig Steven Wright, using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
U.S. copyright registration no. TX-8-708-058, effective date April 13, 2019, for computer program entitled Bitcoin, with year of completion 2009 and date of first publication January 3, 2009. The registration recognizes the author as Craig Steven Wright, using the pseudonym
Satoshi Nakamoto. Wright wrote most of version 0.1 of the Bitcoin client
software, and the registration covers the portions he authored.
Wright originally come out as the creator of Bitcoin in 2016, and provided proof to several people, including
Gavin Anderson former lead developer of the Bitcoin project. However, the Bitcoin Core (BTC) group, who had commandeered the Bitcoin project, led a successful smear campaign against Dr. Wright.
The group had twisted the original vision of Bitcoin by stifling scaling attempts and creating secondary settlement networks, like the
Lighting Network, which take
transactions off chain and away from what Bitcoin was meant to be.
It was this
bastardization, twisting and crippling of Bitcoin that turned it into what BTC is today. This pushed Wright to lift the Satoshi Nakamoto veil for good.
Dr. Wright explains, “When I wrote the bitcoin Whitepaper, I uploaded it on the
bitcoin.org domain so that people would start understanding bitcoin. I've come to understand that few people if any of taken the time to understand what is written in this paper so I have formally published it and registered it with the
copyright registry so that I can start teaching people the true meaning of what bitcoin is about and stop people
twisting the narrative.”
That twisted narrative lead to criminals, like drug dealers and money launders, to become the face of Bitcoin. The
accountability and
traceability that the Bitcoin
blockchain provides was left on the back burner, and it was marketed to the
worst elements of society. Wright could not stand for that.
“The last thing that I said to Gavin Anderson in 2011 when I handed him the control of the code was that
"I wish you wouldn't keep talking about me as a mysterious shadowy figure, the press just turns that into a pirate currency angle,” Dr. Wright recalls. “Maybe instead make it about the
open source project and give more credit to your dev contributors; it helps motivate them.”
Now that Wright has reclaimed
ownership of the Bitcoin
whitepaper, he’s hoping his creation can regain the original mission it was meant to have. “Bitcoin was designed to be
honest and not another criminal coin,” he said. “It's time for people to learn that and see that I'm (as Satoshi) not just some shady figure because I didn't want publicity”
Dr. Wright will be attending the upcoming CoinGeek Toronto scaling conference, and will feature prominently in a Fireside chat with Bitcoin Association Founding President Jimmy Nguyen. The conversation is bound to have plenty of revelations about the early history of Bitcoin, so it will be well worth attending.
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