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Category: PART 7: Lawsuits and Controversies

The Historic Bitcoin Trial: Kleiman v. Wright

In 2008, after years of work, Australian computer scientist and cybersecurity expert Craig Wright was ready to finalize and publish his creation: Bitcoin. Wright started to program it and write a whitepaper early that year….…...

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Merging Digitality and Physicality

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Wright v. McCormack – a Defamation Case that Reveals More Than Defamation

The defamation case of Wright v. McCormack is telling in multiple ways, not only in the result itself but also in how the BTC world and cryptoverse have reacted to it. In Wright v. McCormack,……...

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Magnus v. Wright – Courtroom Witness Testimonies vs Social Media Opinions

Roughly parallel to Wright v. MacCormack is another defamation case between Wright and a Norwegian blogger Magnus’ Hodlonaut’ Granath, who had run personal attack campaigns on Twitter against Wright, calling him a fraud. This case……...

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Satoshi’s Bitcoin IP Battle Continues with COPA

In 2021, Dr. Craig S. Wright won a default judgment against bitcoin.org in a London court over the copyright of the original Bitcoin whitepaper. The outcome lends more credence to Wright’s claim to be Satoshi……...

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Volume II: Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Beyond - Essays of Science, Economics, Law, Ethics, and Controversies Order on Amazon (coming soon)

Digital Assets are Subject to Property Laws

Can a court of law order bitcoin to be moved from one address to another without having the private key of the first address? This is the question for which the world needs an answer….…...

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Bit & Coin

Merging Digitality and Physicality

Volume I: Digital Humanity’s Truth Layer - The New Internet, its Authenticity Layer, and Applications 
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Volume II: Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Beyond - Essays of Science, Economics, Law, Ethics, and Controversies Order on Amazon (coming soon)