COPA Sues Craig Wright for Pretending to be Bitcoin founder, Satoshi Nakamoto

Case Number: IL- and IL-

Plaintiffs: Crypto Open Patent Alliance

Defendant: Dr. Craig Steven Wright

Filing Date: January 29, 2024

Location: High Court of Justice, Business and Property Courts of England & Wales, Intellectual Property list (ChD)

Table of Content

INTRODUCTION

1. An illustration of the intricacies and depths of Dr Wright’s forgeries

2. The BDO Image ‘Time Capsule’ “BDOPC.raw”

   (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

3. The LATEX files: Main.tex and E-Cash-main.tex

   (i) Dr Wright’s main LaTeX file “main.tex”, “Candidate L” {H/340/1}

   (ii) Dr Wright’s “electronic cash” LaTeX file “E-Cash-main.tex”, “Candidate C” {H/331/1}

4. The BlackNet Abstract (Particulars of Claim at [26]-[27] {A/2/9}) The Second Pleaded Example C00000917

   (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal Conclusion

5. “Project BlackNet” paper (Reliance Document) {ID_001379} / {L1/79/1}

   (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

6. Statistics Assessment homework {ID_000073} / {L1/323/1}

   (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal Conclusion

7. Conversions to LaTeX using the 2022 version of Pandoc {ID_004648} {PTR-F/5/1} and {ID_004687} {L1/236/1}"

   (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

8. LLM Dissertation proposal 2 (Reliance Document) {ID_000217} / {L2/131/1}

   (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

9. Handwritten BDO Minutes (Reliance Document) {ID_004013} / {L2/159/1}

   (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusions

10. “A Competing Transaction or Block Model” {ID_004682} {L1/367/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

11. “The King2.rtf” {ID_004695} {L2/49/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal

12. False LLM Proposal “Proposala.rtf” {ID_004697} {L2/54}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

13. “Hash Based Shadowing” (Scanned Manuscript Document) {ID_004729} {PTRF/86/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal

14. Variations on “Secure and Trustworthy Voting” {ID_004732} {PTR-F/89/1} and {ID_004734} {PTR-F/91/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal

15. “Internal Controls…Backend Operations” {ID_004733} {PTR-F/90/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal

16. “NG3.tex” and related files {ID_004715} {PTR-F/72/1}, {ID_004716} {PTR-F/73/1}, {ID_004719} {PTR-F/76/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal

17. “LPA.tex” and “LP1.tex” {ID_004722} {PTR-F/79/1} and {ID_004723} {PTRF/80/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal

18. “ESDT.tex” {ID_004736} {PTR-F/93/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal

19. Tominaka Nakamoto: Monumenta Nipponica {ID_004019} / {L2/245/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

20. Backdated White Paper PDF (1) {ID_000536} / {L2/474/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

21. OpenOffice 2.4 document (Reliance Document) {ID_000260} / {L2/294/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

22. The 12 March 2008 Kleiman emails

    (a) (Particulars of Claim at [28] – [29] {A/2/10}) The Third Pleaded Example ID_001318 (b) COPA’s reason for alleging forgery. (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations

23. Email: “I need your help editing a paper I am going to release” (1) {ID_000465}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusions

24. Timecoin ODT Whitepaper (Reliance Document) {ID_000254}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

25. “Block diffusion within bitcoin” (Reliance Document) {ID_000367} / {L3/185/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

26. The SSRN Submission (Particulars of Claim at [30]-[35] {A/2/10}) The Fourth Pleaded Example

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (c) Conclusion

27. False NAB Account Records {ID_003455} / {L15/100/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

28. Economics of BitCoin Nodes (Reliance Document) {ID_000227} / {L3/219/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

29. “Noncooperative finite games” (Reliance Document) {ID_000396} / {L3/203/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

30. Coffee-stained printout of Bitcoin White Paper (Reliance Document) {ID_004011} / {L2/234/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

31. “Economic Security.doc” (Reliance Document) {ID_000258} / {L3/286/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

32. “BitCoin: SEIR-C Propagation models of block and transaction dissemination” (Reliance Document) {ID_000550} / {L3/237/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

33. C++ Code {ID_004712} {PTR-F/69/1} and {ID_004713} {PTR-F/70/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

34. Converted Code2Flow source code flowchart (Reliance Document) {ID_000554} / {L3/326/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

35. bitcoin.exe - hex-edited{ID_000739} / {L3/474/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (d) Conclusion

36. MYOB accounting screenshots (Reliance Documents) {ID_004077} / {L5/150/1}, plus ID_004078 and ID_004079.

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal Conclusion

37. The Tulip Trust Deed (Particulars of Claim at [66A] {A/2/10}) ({ID_001186}) / {L8/20/1}) The Fifth Pleaded Example

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (c) Conclusions

38. Spoofed email from Dr Wright in the name of Satoshi Nakamoto (1) {ID_001546} / {L8/338/1}

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) COPA’s Reasons for Inferring Dr Wright’s Knowledge / Responsibility (c) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal(d) Conclusion

39. The Sartre Message (Particulars of Claim at [23]-[25] {A/2/8}) The First Pleaded Example

    (a) COPA’s Reasons for Alleging Forgery (b) Dr Wright’s Explanations and COPA’s Rebuttal (c) Conclusion

40. The MYOB Ontier email (aka ‘the Ramona Version’) dated 18 February 2024.

    (a) Background (b) The email (c) COPA’s Allegation (d) Dr Wright’s contention (e) The timestamps and other points raised by Dr Wright. (f) Conclusion