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by once_inc 757 days ago
Rightfully so. Wright has a grating personality, with an obnoxious air of superiority. He claims to have coded up bitcoin v0.1 while simultaneously being unable to explain to a judge what an unsigned integer is.

The trial was a complete win for COPA, who can use the litigation to prevent/win the multiple other cases Wright has started with developers and bitcoiners over the years, like McCormack, Hodlonaut, and others.
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dmix 757 days ago
> being unable to explain to a judge what an unsigned integer is.

Plus the bulk of the article focused on his forgery of documents allegedly predating Bitcoin paper release, detected because he used an new version of Latex and his failed attempts to mimic the document metadata to be like Satoshis metadata.

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nullc 757 days ago
The Bitcoin whitepaper was created with OpenOffice.

Wright tried to create forgeries with both Word and OpenOffice, but he was unable to reproduce the illustrations as vector art and the bitmaps were noticed. He also got burned over and over again by hidden data in Word (and OO) documents revealing things like the fact that the document was started off as a copy and paste of Satoshi's and then edited to look like a precursor.

Wright appears to have decided to try to solve both problems by declaring that the whitepaper was really created with LaTeX-- since tex files don't have hidden metadata and he could use an online conversion tool to convert the vector illustrations.

Too bad he seems to have been unable to get LaTeX running locally, so he used overleaf--an online LaTeX editor-- which recorded his every revision creating his forgeries.

He tried to claim overleaf did not store any such data, too bad it's substantially open source and his opponents included actual software developers.

https://nt4tn.net/Wrightpaper_editing_wBWP.mp4 (red overlay being the real bitcoin whitepaper)

https://nt4tn.net/Wrightpaper_editing_woBWP.mp4

You can see him incrementally twiddling the spacing trying to get the line wraps in the same positions from the beginning of the document down to the end.

Our barrister's cross examination after running this video was quite stunning. :)

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