-
The
Crypto
Open
Patent
Alliance
is
demanding
that
Craig
Wright
pay
85%
of
its
legal
costs. -
COPA
took
Wright
to
court
in
February
to
find
out
if
he
was
Satoshi
Nakamoto,
the
creator
of
bitcoin. -
The
presiding
judge
of
the
case,
James
Mellor,
ruled
that
Wright
was
not
Nakamoto
in
March.
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.
COPA
took
Wright
to
a
U.K.
court
in
February
to
find
out,
once
and
for
all,
if
he
was
the
pseudonymous
creator
of
bitcoin,
Satoshi
Nakamoto,
after
Wright
had
taken
members
of
the
crypto
community
to
court
over
the
years
under
the
premise
that
he
was
Nakamoto.
The
English
court
ruled
in
COPA’s
favor
in
March
that
Wright
was
not
the
creator
of
bitcoin
and
that
he
did
not
author
the
bitcoin
whitepaper.
Jonathan
Hough,
one
of
COPA’s
legal
representatives,
asked
that
Wright
be
given
a
civil
restraint
order
to
stop
him
from
pursuing
any
other
legal
court
cases,
because
“he
has
poured
out
threats.”
COPA
also
offered
to
submit
a
list
of
online
posts
that
Wright
should
take
down.
Hough
said
that
this
case
should
also
be
put
forward
for
criminal
proceedings
following
the
courts
judgement
that
Wright
committed
multiple
forgeries
during
the
trial.
The
Bitcoin
developers
who
joined
this
case
also
asked
that
Wright
pay
for
85.2%
of
their
costs.
Unless
Wright
was
prevented
from
doing
so,
he
would
continue
to
“propagate
lies,”
Hough
argued.
“There
is
a
powerful
public
interest
in
them
[lies]
being
brought
to
an
end
now,”
Hough
said,
pointing
to
the
litigation
that
spanned
more
than
five
years
that
Wright
had
brought
against
COPA
members
such
as
Coinbase
Inc.
(COIN)
and
Kraken,
among
others.
Hitting
back
Wright’s
defense
argued
that
not
clarifying
the
perimeters
in
which
Wright
can
say
he
is
Nakamoto
could
infringe
on
his
human
rights.
“What
if
Dr.
Wright
sent
an
email
to
a
medical
professional
asserting
he
was
Satoshi
–
that’s
a
publication
of
a
statement,”
Craig
Orr,
Wright’s
lawyer
said,
adding
that
the
suggestion
that
Wright
take
down
all
his
posts
was
“parasitic.”
His
defense
also
asked
that
the
amount
Wright
pays
be
brought
down
to
70%
of
the
costs
COPA
incurred.
The
room
was
filled
with
people
from
the
legal
world
that
sought
to
see
the
end
of
this
trial.
They
were
able
to
hear
Hough
playing
back
Wright’s
own
words
in
an
Oxford
Union
video
from
2019.
“Yes,
there
is
altered
pages,”
Wright
said
in
the
video
that
bellowed
across
the
court
room.
“So,
I’m
going
to
court
on
this;
I
don’t
need
to
face
trolls
in
rooms.
You
know
what
happens
when
you
lie
in
the
court;
you
know
what
happens
–
for
court
perjury
–
you
get
20
years.
That’s
how
real
things
work
in
the
real
world
outside
of
the
crypto
Twitter-storm
world.
In
the
real
world,
people
have
evidence
and
rules.”
The
judge
was
inundated
by
lawyers
jumping
in
to
defend
clients
like
Coinbase,
who
offered
new
thoughts
and
didn’t
agree
fully
with
some
of
the
cost
figures
that
were
presented.
Mellor,
whose
expression
shifted
from
certain
to
ever-more-pensive
as
the
trial
went
on,
decided
at
the
end
of
it
he
could
not
give
a
judgement
at
that
moment,
but
he
said
he’ll
give
a
decision
on
costs
first
before
making
a
decision
on
what
kind
of
injunctive
relief
the
court
would
seek.
Injunctive
relief
is
a
measure
from
the
court
that
would
seek
to
prevent
defendants
from
doing
something.
The
court
didn’t
immediately
provide
information
to
CoinDesk
seeking
more
information
in
the
exact
timing
of
the
judgement.
