Ripple’s Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz has written off self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright as ‘delusionary nonsense,’ as they don’t seem by his statements regarding BTC’s original purpose.
Wright, who says he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of BTC, has said BTC Core development teams need to show that BTC on the current version is in complete tune with what the original had envisioned.
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Last week, Wright insisted that BTC Core developers had the responsibility to prove that any change made to Bitcoin (BTC) is done according to Satoshi’s documented intentions. ‘That is how their arguments need to align with documented intentions.’ Simply showing a slight alignment, or vague resemblances, is not enough, wrote Wright.
Australian computer scientist Wright has long been embroiled in legal disputes over BTC. In his case, he recently filed a remarkable £911 billion lawsuit against BTC Core developers, claiming that Bitcoin technology should not be reinterpreted.
But Schwartz said that nobody has to follow Satoshi’s vision for BTC. His post echoes a larger view among the decentralized group that thinks of BTC past its days as something, demonstrating that decisions about its future shouldn’t be dictated by one person’s narrative, even if this person claims to be Satoshi.
First claiming to be Satoshi in 2016, Wright has been ripped into by the BTC community and involved in several legal battles. A U.K court in March ruled Bitcoin was not created by Wright, and in May he was accused of falsifying evidence in the COPA case. Despite these setbacks, Wright is prosecuting his claim to Bitcoin in the courts.
