Letter to Craig Wright after COPA ruling

kelsola
2 min readMar 15, 2024

Craig Wright,

I’ve thought you were Satoshi for a long time. Your level of knowledge along with your backstory led me to believe that you were indeed the creator of Bitcoin — even without absolute proof and the other side constantly making the case otherwise.

Embarrassingly enough, even with this ruling by Judge Mellor, I still do. (Idiot, it seems so)

Why? Because I can’t undo watching nearly every video you’ve been in or unread what you’ve written and done related to Bitcoin. Adding that to your vision for scaling it and comparing it to Satoshi’s communications, I can’t help but stay swayed.

BUT, my opinion or thoughts on that matter don’t matter; it’s Judge Mellor’s that does…

And using the evidence you’ve provided, it wasn’t enough to sway him. Conclusively, he ruled otherwise: You were not the creator of Bitcoin.

So now, the public perception that you are a Faketoshi fraud will remain, and the Bitcoin-SV brand that is associated with you will not get its much-needed boost. It will continue to remain tarnished and polarizing and subject to attacks. (Not a good reputation for luring enterprises onto, one would think)

It’s truly a shame, because I don’t believe you or BSV can come back from this ruling. Thus, I can no longer actively proceed with doing what I hoped to do for your scalable version of Bitcoin: Uniting it with the mainstream and global digital content market, using the…

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