- On February 16, another hearing was held on the COPA lawsuit against Craig Wright.
- The programmer’s sister stated that she saw Wright in a ninja costume, which indicates his involvement with the person of Satoshi Nakamoto.
- The woman also noted that she once saw her brother in a room full of computers.
On February 16, 2024, another hearing was held in the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) case against programmer Craig Wright. The defendant’s sister and two other witnesses spoke at the hearing.
Danielle DeMorgan said that she saw Wright walking in the park at the age of 18 wearing a ninja costume. According to the woman, this is evidence of his connection to the persona of Satoshi Nakamoto.
In addition, DeMorgan once went into her brother’s room and saw a large number of computers there. Wright told his sister that he was working on something important, the defendant’s relative noted.
Another defense witness is the gaming company’s compliance manager, Mark Archbold. According to the man, he had a conversation with Wright in 2005 about digital currency. The witness also recalled that the programmer had previously developed software to encrypt data.
The third witness was patent attorney Cerian Jones. Her testimony was that Craig Wright could be Satoshi Nakamoto. This is indicated by his patents, Jones emphasized.
However, the witness stated that Wright is a “very controversial character.”
COPA lawyers consider the testimony of people who spoke in court from the programmer’s side, unreliable and “vague”. At the same time, the Crypto Open Patent Alliance lawyers call the defendant’s statements “false”.
At the meeting on February 13, 2024 Craig Wright could not name at least one person to whom he sent bitcoins on behalf of Satoshi. The programmer claimed that he sent the first cryptocurrency to hundreds of people through many of his companies, whose addresses were “believed to belong to Nakamoto”.
Recall, we wrote that the Supreme Court of the UK refused Wright’s appeal in a libel suit against Peter McCormack.
