Somehow it never dawned on them?
In the opening argument lodged by lawyers for Craig Wright in the trial over whether or not he was actually Satoshi Nakamoto, it was put forth that Wright must indeed be him because the purported real Satoshi had not come forward.
“It is striking that no-one else has credibly claimed the mantle of Satoshi, despite the high-profile nature of Dr Wright’s claim to be Satoshi. This issue has been the subject of extensive media comment since early 2016, as well as multiple sets of legal proceedings in this jurisdiction and elsewhere. If Dr Wright were not Satoshi, the real Satoshi would have been expected to come forward to counter the claim.”
What is more striking than this thought process is the fact that someone had come forward and it was the very reason that Wright found himself on trial in the first place. That person was Jack Dorsey who was the driving force behind the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) and its lawsuit to disprove Wright as Satoshi. Dorsey could not sit this one out even if he wanted to because Wright had taken his claims so far that his lawyers sent a Cease & Desist to Jack’s company Square to say that he could not host a copy of the Bitcoin White Paper.
COPA stands for an open financial system and was formed to remove barriers that stifle innovation. We are hosting the Bitcoin whitepaper and stand with our members and the crypto community to address this issue. Here’s our letter in response to last week’s cease and desists. pic.twitter.com/NfM56rfCEc
— COPA (@opencryptoorg) February 5, 2021
Three months later, COPA, using the same attorneys that Jack uses for Square/Block (Bird & Bird), filed its lawsuit against Wright.
Today, COPA initiated a lawsuit asking the UK High Court to declare that Mr. Craig Wright does not have copyright ownership over the Bitcoin White Paper. We stand in support of the Bitcoin developer community and the many others who've been threatened for hosting the White Paper. pic.twitter.com/QNDEq3H6Oq
— COPA (@opencryptoorg) April 12, 2021
Nine months later in 2022, on the anniversary of the first Bitcoin transaction, Jack emailed the Bitcoin mailing list to inform all the devs about the formation of a Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund. “The main purpose of this Fund is to defend developers from lawsuits regarding their activities in the Bitcoin ecosystem, including finding and retaining defense counsel, developing litigation strategy, and paying legal bills,” he wrote. “This is a free and voluntary option for developers to take advantage of if they so wish. The Fund will start with a corps of volunteer and part-time lawyers. The board of the Fund will be responsible for determining which lawsuits and defendants it will help defend. The Fund’s first activities will be to take over coordination of the existing defense of the Tulip Trading lawsuit against certain developers alleging breach of fiduciary duty and provide the source of funding for outside counsel.”
Three weeks later Jack began to wear a new shirt that would become part of his personal identity, a Satoshi Nirvana shirt, first worn on a podcast on February 1, 2022.
He followed that up by wearing it to the Super Bowl and has seemingly worn it everywhere he’s gone ever since.
The irony of it all then is that what happened is just as Wright and co theorized would happen. The real Satoshi came forward to counter the claim and it’s Jack Dorsey.