Craig Wright Gets Trolled As Companies, Countries Upload Bitcoin Whitepaper

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Last Updated on 28 January 2021 by CryptoTips.eu

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Just like the hedge funds of Wall Street that were getting trolled by an army of Reddit commenters, so is Craig Wright finding his match in the many supporters of Bitcoin. Ever since he sent legal writs to multiple companies at the beginning of this month for hosting the Bitcoin Whitepaper, Silicon Valley companies and even countries have joined the call in defiance of his demand and uploaded the document themselves. Facebook and Square have now been joined by the governments of Estonia and Colombia.

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Satoshi Nakamoto

It was nonprofit organization Bitcoin.org that first reported they had received a legal summons from Mr Wrights lawyers, saying earlier this month that:

both Bitcoin.org and Bitcoincore.org received allegations of copyright infringement of the Bitcoin white paper by lawyers representing Craig Steven Wright.

In this letter, they claim Craig owns the copyright to the paper, the Bitcoin name, and ownership of bitcoin.org. They also claim he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, and the original owner of bitcoin.org. Bitcoin.org and Bitcoincore.org were both asked to take down the whitepaper. We believe these claims are without merit, and refuse to do so.

Estonia and Colombia

The response from the internet has been swift and strong though, and shows the growing popularity of Bitcoin and its universal message of defiance.

Facebook, through it’s crypto subsidiary Novi first broke rank and decided to upload the document to it’s website, soon followed by Square, the digital payments app of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Many other, smaller Silicon Valley companies soon followed suit.

By now, the demand of the internet fans of Bitcoin has reached several world governments as well, which is why Estonia and Colombia have also uploaded the Whitepaper on their official URLs.

Mr Wright has not yet responded.