“An Australian computer scientist who claimed he invented bitcoin faces a criminal investigation in Britain for alleged perjury after he was found to have repeatedly lied and forged documents to support his false claim. Judge James Mellor ruled in March that the evidence Wright was not Satoshi was “overwhelming”, saying in a written judgment ...

“Craig Wright, who claimed to be Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, was referred to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to be considered for perjury charges for evidence he presented in a case brought by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance. COPA, a non-profit organization representing bitcoin developers, filed suit against Wright ...

“An Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to have invented Bitcoin has been referred to UK prosecutors for alleged perjury. A judge at London’s High Court found Dr Craig Wright lied “extensively and repeatedly” to support his claim that he was “Satoshi Nakamoto”, the pseudonym attributed to the person widely ...

“An Australian computer scientist who was found by a High Court judge in London to have falsely claimed to have invented bitcoin could face a criminal investigation for alleged perjury. Craig Wright, 53, had publicly claimed to be the true figure behind Satoshi Nakamoto, the author of the 2008 academic ...

“The case of Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to be the creator of bitcoin, has been referred to the Crown Prosecution Service over a potential prosecution for perjury and forgery. In March, Wright lost a legal battle with a coalition of cryptocurrency businesses who had pre-emptively ...

“Craig Wright, an Australian man who claimed to be the inventor of bitcoin, was on Tuesday referred to British prosecutors for committing alleged perjury. On Tuesday, British High Court Judge James Mellor decided to refer a case against Wright’s claim to be the inventor of bitcoin to the Crown Prosecution ...

“A” judge in the UK High Court has directed prosecutors to consider bringing criminal charges against computer scientist Craig Wright, after ruling that he lied “extensively and repeatedly” and committed forgery “on a grand scale” in service of his quest to prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of bitcoin. In ...

“The cryptocurrency entrepreneur whose false claim to be bitcoin inventor ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ has filled more than 80 days of court hearings should be prosecuted for perjury, the High Court heard yesterday. Dr Craig Wright had mounted a five-year campaign of ‘litigation terrorism’, Jonathan Hough KC told a one-day hearing following ...

“The Crypto Open Patent Alliance’s (COPA) legal representatives on Friday asked Judge James Mellor to grant that Craig Wright pay 85% of the costs the group incurred in the legal proceedings. Jonathan Hough, one of COPA’s legal representatives, asked that Wright be given a civil restraint order to stop him ...

“The High Court has ruled that a computer scientist lied ‘extensively and repeatedly’ in a failed bid to claim he was Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym attributed to the person credited with creating Bitcoin.  Dr Craig Wright lost a legal battle with the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (Copa), a non-profit group including cryptocurrency ...

“Dr. Wright had a financial interest in squelching their work: He and a gambling tycoon had joined forces to promote an alternative digital currency, Bitcoin Satoshi Vision, that they claimed was a pure, uncorrupted version of Bitcoin, with better practical applications. This year, Bitcoin’s price surged to an all-time high, ...

On Monday, Mr. Justice Mellor handed down his written judgment on the COPA lawsuit brought against Craig Wright on the grounds that his claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto were fraudulent. The judgment follows on the heels of Mr. Justice Mellor’s March 18 oral declaration that Wright was not Satoshi Nakamoto, ...

“An Australian computer scientist who claimed he invented bitcoin lied “extensively and repeatedly” and forged documents “on a grand scale” to support his false claim, a judge at London’s High Court ruled on Monday. Craig Wright had long claimed to have been the author of a 2008 white paper, the ...

“A UK judge has ruled that Craig Wright, who claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, lied extensively and forged documents during a high-profile trial. In a scathing 231-page judgment, Justice James Mellor stated that Wright “lied to the court repeatedly” and committed forgery “on a grand scale” in ...

“FT Alphaville was in at the start of the performance art project known as Craig Wright. We’re obliged therefore to mark the end of what should (but probably won’t be) his last act. A UK court ruled in March, after a month-long trial, that Wright was not Satoshi Nakamoto, the ...

“A judge in the UK High Court has ruled that computer scientist Craig Wright lied “extensively and repeatedly,” and committed forgery “on a grand scale” in aid of a years-long quest to prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. In a written judgment published on May 20, Justice James Mellor ruled that ...

“Craig Wright lied “extensively and repeatedly” in both his written and oral evidence in the Crypto Open Patent Alliance case regarding his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, Judge James Mellor said in his written judgement on Monday. Mellor also concluded that the issue of injunctive relief – a legal remedy ...

“In what may be the end of a decade-long odyssey, self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin, Dr. Craig Wright, has dropped his lawsuit against 12 Bitcoin developers in the Tulip Trading Limited v. Bitcoin Association for BSV & Others case, the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund said on Wednesday. “Thanks to the generous ...

On Monday, Dr. Craig S. Wright discontinued a lawsuit his holding company, Tulip Trading, brought against 12 Bitcoin developers and others in the UK High Court.  Wright’s discontinuance brings an end to a nearly decade-long campaign of harassment and intimidation and marks a major win for the Bitcoin developers and ...

“A computer scientist who lost a High Court battle over whether he was the creator of Bitcoin has had his finances frozen for a second time as he waits to find out how much he will have to pay in legal fees. Dr Craig Wright was sued by the Crypto ...

A U.K. judge imposed a worldwide freezing order on 6 million British pounds ($7.6 million) of Craig Wright’s assets to prevent him moving them offshore and evading costs arising from a court case that found he was not, as he’d claimed, Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto.In a March 14 decision, ...

“A U.K. judge ordered to freeze $7.6 million (£6 million ) worth of Craig Wright’s assets worldwide after finding that he falsely claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin. The order comes after Wright’s decisive loss in a landmark lawsuit against the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA). ...

“Eight years ago, controversial Australian businessman Craig Steven Wright publicly claimed to be the brains behind bitcoin. “I was the main part of it [and] other people helped me,” he told the BBC in 2016.”Some people will believe, some people won’t, and to tell you the truth, I don’t really ...

“ Britain’s high court ruled Thursday that an Australian computer scientist is not, as he claimed, the mysterious creator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency. Craig Wright has for eight years claimed that he was the man behind “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the pseudonym that masked the identity of the creator of bitcoin. His ...

“Despite his claims to the contrary, Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is not the mysterious Bitcoin creator who goes by the name Satoshi Nakamoto, a London judge ruled Thursday. The presiding judge, James Mellor, announced his four-part opinion shortly after the case wrapped. “First,” he said, “Dr. Wright is not ...

“ Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? A ruling from Britain’s high court Thursday has at least narrowed down who Satoshi is not. For eight years, Australian computer scientist Craig Wright has claimed that he was the man behind “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the pseudonym that masked the identity of the creator of bitcoin. ...

“After a lengthy legal dispute, London’s High Court of Justice has formally determined that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. A particularly noteworthy tactic used by Wright’s team “repeatedly” was that, if Wright was not truly Satoshi Nakamoto, then the real Satoshi ...

“The longest-running mystery in crypto is who is Satoshi Nakamoto, the author of the 2008 white paper that laid the foundations of bitcoin. For years Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, has claimed he is bitcoin’s creator. In London the Crypto Open Patent Alliance, a group that is backed by ...

“A London judge ruled Thursday that Australiancomputer scientist Craig Wright is not the pseudonymous inventor of bitcoin, ruling that the evidence against his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto was “overwhelming.” After closing submissions on Thursday, High Court Judge James Mellor said he would write a full judgement in due course ...

“Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous author of the Bitcoin white paper, a U.K. judge ruled on Thursday. “Dr. Wright has been shown to have lied on an extraordinary scale,” according to COPA’s closing submission. “He has invented an entire biographical history, producing one tranche after another of ...

“Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin, is not the Australian computer scientist Craig Wright, a high court judge has ruled, ending a fractious two-month trial in London. In a highly unusual decision, the presiding judge, Mr Justice Mellor, issued the verdict within seconds of the case concluding, promising to ...

“The judge overseeing a legal battle about who invented Bitcoin has ruled that it is not Australian computer scientist Craig Wright. The question had been examined in a five week trial at the High Court. The judge, Mr Justice Mellor, made his ruling as soon as the proceedings had concluded. ...

“In a definitive ruling at the Rolls Building, part of the Royal Courts of Justice in London, the case of Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance vs. Craig Wright reached a decisive conclusion. After the closing statements, Mr Justice Mellor informed the London Court that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, the ...

“Judge Edward Mellor said Thursday that Wright was not Nakamoto, did not author the Bitcoin White Paper, and was not the creator of the initial Bitcoin software, in an oral judgment at the end of the trial. A spokesperson for the High Court confirmed the result. A full written judgment ...

“A British judge has ruled that Brisbane-born computer scientist Craig Wright is not bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, potentially closing the curtain on years of speculation and litigation about the Australian’s claims. In a terse verbal ruling at the end of a six-week case in London, high court judge James Mellor ...

“An Australian computer scientist who claims he invented bitcoin is not “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the pseudonymous inventor of the cryptocurrency, a judge at London’s High Court ruled on Thursday. Judge James Mellor said at the end of closing arguments on Thursday that the evidence Wright was not Satoshi was “overwhelming.” “Dr Wright is not ...

“The mystery of who invented bitcoin remains after a High Court judge ruled that Satoshi Nakamoto was not an Australian computer scientist living in Surrey. Craig Wright’s claim that he was the genius behind the pseudonym used by the cryptocurrency’s founder was described in court as a “brazen lie” based ...

“Britain’s high court ruled Thursday that an Australian computer scientist is not, as he claimed, the mysterious creator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency. Craig Wright has for eight years claimed that he was the man behind “Satoshi Nakamoto,” the pseudonym that masked the identity of the creator of bitcoin. In his ...

“An Australian computer scientist who claims he invented bitcoin is not “Satoshi Nakamoto”, the pseudonymous inventor of the cryptocurrency, a judge at London’s High Court ruled on Thursday. udge James Mellor said at the end of closing arguments on Thursday that the evidence Wright was not Satoshi was “overwhelming”. “Dr ...

The weeks-long lawsuit brought by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) against Dr. Craig Wright came to an abrupt end on Thursday when Mr. Justice Mellor, the judge presiding over the case, ruled that Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto.  As Mr. Justice Mellor told the court: “I will make certain ...

“An Australian computer scientist who claims he invented bitcoin is not “Satoshi Nakamoto”, the pseudonymous inventor of the cryptocurrency, a judge at London’s High Court ruled on Thursday.Craig Wright has long claimed to have been the author of a 2008 white paper, the foundational text of bitcoin, published under the ...

A crypto alliance accusing Craig Wright of committing forgeries in attempting to prove he’d invented Bitcoin plans to ask U.K. prosecutors to consider if the computer scientist perjured himself during an ongoing trial. “Following the evidence in this trial, it is clearer than ever – clear beyond doubt – that ...

The London Bitcoin trial is coming to an end as a senior barrister told the High Court today that throughout, Craig Wright attempted a “very serious fraud upon the court”. Crypto Open Patent Alliance’s barrister Hough KC of 4 New Square Chambers was speaking to the court today outlining his ...

“Craig Wright hit back on Friday at accusations that he forged an email amid a trial over his claims that he is the inventor of bitcoin, telling a London court that an enemy could have doctored the message to sabotage his case. Craig Wright has denied manipulating email evidence ...

“Craig Wright accused critics of bugging his home and spoofing an email he’s been accused of doctoring during a Friday cross-examination in the U.K. trial probing his claims of having invented Bitcoin. Spoofing involves changing the metadata of an email to – among other things – make it look like it was ...

“After Wright made a reference last week to some emails between him and his former legal representatives at Ontier, his current lawyers were compelled to submit those emails to evidence. An inconsistency forced them to check with Ontier on the accuracy of the correspondence submitted by Wright’s wife Ramona Watts. ...

“In the latest update in the trial of COPA vs Craig Wright, a significant development arose regarding Wright’s claim as Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin. During the trial on Monday, as part of a mandatory disclosure, Wright’s solicitors provided the court with potentially forged documents. The disclosure was part of evidence ...

“Emails shared by Craig Wright’s wife as evidence in the ongoing trial probing whether he’d invented bitcoin (BTC) are “not genuine,” Wright’s former lawyers said in court, as the fourth week of the legal proceedings kicked off Monday in London. The emails between Wright and his former representatives at Ontier became part ...

“In London’s Rolls Building, within the Royal Courts of Justice, the trial of COPA vs Craig Wright continues, aiming to establish whether or not Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto. Further developments and testimonies have emerged throughout the trial’s third week, challenging Wright’s claims. One of the key aspects of the trial this week was the ...

“The trial to prove whether or not Wright is the anonymous creator of the bitcoin white paper completed its third week. COPA wants to prove that Wright’s claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto is a lie afforded by “industrial style forgeries,” and the bitcoin developers lawyer Alexander Gunning is helping them. On Friday, ...

“ Earlier this month, a trial began in the UK High Court, the purpose of which is to challenge Wright’s claim to being the creator of Bitcoin. The case was filed by a consortium of crypto firms called the Crypto Open Patent Alliance, which is asking the court to declare ...

“ wo key figures in Bitcoin’s creation took the stand in the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) case against Craig Wright, an early Bitcoin developer who claims to be the pseudonymous bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.  Adam Back, pioneer of Bitcoin’s proof-of-work consensus system, and early Bitcoin contributor Martti Malmi disputed claims ...

“Craig Wright has been testifying in a London court that he is Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto. The Australian-born computer scientist’s claim that he authored the Bitcoin white paper is at the heart of a high-stakes court battle with the nonprofit Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance. Wright’s eccentricity and the mystique surrounding Satoshi make ...

“‘We’re heading into a f***ing train wreck.’That’s how Stefan Matthews, a witness for Craig Wright, described the U.K. trial probing the latter’s claims that he invented the first cryptocurrency, bitcoin. Matthews, the co-founder of tech company nChain – where Wright was chief scientist – had to defend that January ...

“Over the course of nearly 30 hours of cross-examination, Craig Steven Wright, the Australian man who claims to be Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, has been raked through the coals. The self-described computer scientist, economist, cryptographer, patent writer, author, lawyer, pastor, master of martial arts and mathematician (in other words: ...

“The cross-examination of Craig Wright, a computer scientist defending his claims to be the inventor of Bitcoin in court, proceeded fitfully over the course of seven days. In the UK High Court, opposing counsel Jonathan Hough bombarded Wright with examples of what he argued were anomalies that showed Wright had ...

“COPA states that [Wright] has never provided any authentic evidence and accuses him of repeatedly altering documents. Wright blames others, including former lawyers and partners, for the forgeries. COPA’s lawyer, Jonathan Hough, noted at trial that “there are elements of Dr. Wright’s conduct that stray into farce,” such as the ...

“Australian computer scientist Craig Wright unleashed fresh allegations against several members of the crypto community and was in turn accused of offering different versions of the same story in court as his cross-examination in a trial over his claims of having invented Bitcoin (BTC) continued in a U.K. high court. ...

“In London, [Wright] is lining up against the powerful Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), an organisation backed by a list of the tech and crypto world’s biggest names, including Jack Dorsey’s Square and, until very recently, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta. For those betting on a blockchain-based future of payments, the stakes ...

“Wright’s claims of being Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of bitcoin, were met with skepticism and labeled as “a brazen lie” by COPA’s legal team. The focal point of the dispute centered around the copyright of the bitcoin whitepaper and the intellectual property rights associated with the bitcoin blockchain. Within these ...

“Formed in 2020 and backed by Twitter founder and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, COPA advocates for the long-term freedom of the Bitcoin and open-source community. Highlighting the incentives Wright has in claiming to be the creator of Bitcoin, COPA argued that he has had plenty of time to prove it, ...

“An Australian computer scientist’s claim to be the author of the founding text of bitcoin is a “brazen lie”, the high court has heard. Craig Wright’s assertion that he is the pseudonymous author Satoshi Nakamoto was at the centre of a trial that began on Monday, where the 53-year-old is ...

“In 2021, the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a nonprofit backed by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and several high-profile industry players such as Coinbase and Microstrategy, sued Wright, challenging his claim to authorship of the manifesto, known as the Bitcoin white paper. While certainly not the first to have come after ...

*“On February 5, a trial will begin in the UK High Court, the purpose of which is to challenge Wright’s claim to Satoshi-hood. The case is being brought by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a nonprofit consortium of crypto and tech firms, in response to a slew of lawsuits ...

Coinbase’s Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary Paul Grewal wrote an op-ed for Coindesk’s Consensus Magazine on behalf of the Crypto Open Patent Alliance arguing that Wright’s “baseless litigations against crypto developers…is a a drain on the talent and spirit of the crypto economy as a whole and needs to ...

On December 15, the UK High Court held a Pre-Trial Review (“PTR”)  in the Identity Trial scheduled for early 2024 to which the Developers are a party. The Identity Trial will answer the question of whether Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.  The PTR  came on ...

“*Four cases remain on hold until the High Court’s ruling in the January hearing on what has been termed “the identity issue” — whether or not Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto. That case has been brought by the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA) — a group of tech firms founded ...

On October 31, the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) filed its amended particulars of claim  in its lawsuit with Craig Wright to include 50 detailed allegations of forgery of Wright’s key reliance documents.   A central issue in the COPA case, which will go to trial in January 2024, is whether ...

“A London court on Tuesday granted a Californian nonprofit organization permission to add allegations of forgery, fraud and document-tampering to its existing case, which claims that computer scientist Craig Wright is not the creator of bitcoin. The High Court ruled that Crypto Open Patent Alliance — an industry body representing ...

“Bitcoin’s “inventor” failed on Wednesday to block evidence used by 10 developers to support their allegation he is fraudulently suing them for£4.5 billion ($5.4 billion) of the cryptocurrency he claims he is trying to retrieve after being hacked. High Court Judge James Mellor refused an attempt by Craig Wright, who ...

“Bitcoin’s self-proclaimed “inventor” sought to throw out evidence used by 10 developers of the cryptocurrency in English legal proceedings to support their allegation he is fraudulently suing them for £4.5 billion ($5.4 billion) of bitcoin he is trying to get back after being allegedly hacked. Dr. Craig Wright, who asserts ...

On July 11, attorneys defending 12 Bitcoin Core developers in a lawsuit brought by Tulip Trading filed a preliminary issue application with the UK High Court. The application argues the claim brought by Tulip Trading is fraudulent and that the issue of whether Tulip Trading in fact owns the bitcoin ...

The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund was pleased to see a thoughtful article about the Tulip Trading case in the current issue of the highly regarded Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law. The article was written by an attorney not involved in the case who argues that regardless of ...

On July 25, Judge Mellor of the UK High Court released his ruling from a case management conference held last month regarding a key issue in several separate UK lawsuits: the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.  Craig Wright is involved in several lawsuits in the UK alleging that multiple organizations and ...

“Whether Wright is indeed Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto will be determined at a trial slated to begin in January 2024. In a case heard in Oslo last year, multiple witnesses offered forensic evidence that documents supplied by Wright purporting to back up his claim to be Nakomoto contain discrepancies, such ...

Today the UK appellate court decided to uphold Dr. Wright’s appeal in the database rights case. The judges only agreed that Dr. Wright should be allowed to argue that the Bitcoin file format is sufficiently well-defined to receive copyright protection under UK law. Importantly, the appellate decision does not address ...

“The U.K. report sheds light on the definition of fiduciary duty, claiming that categories of fiduciary recognized by the law include “agents, trustees, partners, company directors, and solicitors.” The report said fiduciary duty rarely exists outside these categories. According to the BLDF, the developers’ legal representative, the defendants do not ...

On June 27, the UK Law Commission, a statutory independent body created to review and recommend reforms to UK laws, published its landmark report on digital assets. The 300 page report is a comprehensive analysis of laws related to cryptocurrencies and other digital assets, with a special focus on laws ...

In this Premium Interview, Unchained’s Laura Shin talks with Jessica Jonas, the chief legal officer of the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit backed by Jack Dorsey, Alex Morcos, Martin White, and Jonas herself. A seasoned American lawyer, Jonas delves into the controversial lawsuits lodged by Craig Wright in the ...

Host Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano talks to the most interesting people in business, finance, and Bitcoin. In this episode, Pompliano sits down for a conversation with  Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund chief legal officer Jess Jonas to discuss the fund’s work defending 13 bitcoin developers across two court cases in the United ...

Cantilever Advisors is building a Bitcoin-native investment platform with the goal of providing broad exposure to the best entrepreneurs building in the Bitcoin ecosystem. For their 14th episode, Cantilever spoke with  Jess Jonas, Chief Legal Officer of the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund about the work the non-profit is doing to ...

On May 18, tens of thousands of Bitcoiners returned to the Miami Beach Convention Center for the world’s largest Bitcoin conference. Over the course of 3 days, attendees were able to hear talks from some of the world’s most influential Bitcoin advocates, including two sessions featuring the Bitcoin Legal Defense ...

Jessica Jonas, chief legal officer of the nonprofit Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund, discussed the potential legal ramifications of a high profile lawsuit against Bitcoin core developers during the Bitcoin 2023 event in Miami on May 18. The case in question is a U.K. legal action filed by Craig Wright, the ...

Jess Jonas, Chief Legal Officer of the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund joins Stephan Livera to give an overview of the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund, unpack the threats from the Tulip Trading Case, discuss the implications of the case for open source developers, outline a second case covering Bitcoin copyright claims, ...

The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund has raised donations from hundreds of individual supporters around the globe.    Last week, 11 Bitcoin developers targeted in a lawsuit by Tulip Trading, a firm owned by Craig Wright, filed their substantive defence in that case with the support of the Bitcoin Legal Defense ...

“Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund (BLDF) recently delivered on its promise to fund the legal costs of 11 Bitcoin developers that are the target of the self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright’s lawsuit. According to Alex Morcos, the ‘mission [of BLDF] is to safeguard innovation by shielding developers from legal intimidation’…. ...

In February, the UK Court of Appeals overturned an earlier ruling against Craig Wright’s firm Tulip Trading in its lawsuit against 12 Bitcoin Core developers that seeks to compel them to introduce a backdoor into the Bitcoin Core software. The UK High Court initially dismissed the case against the 12 ...

“A crypto wallet theft lawsuit brought about by a man who claims to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto could jeopardize the future of open source software development. That’s according to the Jack Dorsey-backed Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund, which is taking on a case to defend 11 Bitcoin developers named in ...

“A group of bitcoin developers has accused the self-proclaimed ‘inventor’ of the cryptocurrency of falsely claiming to be the owner of around £4.5 billion ($5.6 billion) of bitcoin he is trying to get back after being hacked, by suing the group. In its defense filed in the High Court on ...

“A crypto-loving social media billionaire is flexing his influence again, and I’m not talking about Elon Musk. Instead, I’m thinking of Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Block and the cofounder of Twitter, which Musk is rapidly running into the ground. Dorsey has occupied many roles over the years, including fashion ...

“The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund (BLDF), a non-profit co-founded by Block (formerly Square) CEO Jack Dorsey, announced Wednesday that it is supporting the legal defense for a number of Bitcoin Core developers targeted by a lawsuit filed by Craig Wright and his firm, Tulip Trading. “The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit co-founded by Jack Dorsey, Alex Morcos, and Martin White, and spearheaded by Jess Jonas, is coordinating the defense of Bitcoin developers targeted in lawsuits by Craig Wright that have major potential implications for the future of Bitcoin and open ...

“The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization co-founded by Jack Dorsey, Alex Morcos and Martin White, is backing 13 Bitcoin Core developers facing lawsuits by Craig Wright. The cases could potentially have major impacts on the future of Bitcoin and open-source software development. Eleven of the developers being supported ...

“Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter and the payments company Block, started the Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund last year to help developers of the cryptocurrency. But its first case, set to be heard in an English court tomorrow, could have broader ramifications for the tech industry and the whole idea ...