Given the recent legal demands and demands of Craig S. Wright, an academic who for a few years has attributed himself to the creation of Bitcoin without verifying it reliably, Cobra points out that Bitcoin developers can be the object of all kinds of attacks and harassment from those who seek to harm to the protocol.
For this, he insists on the need for developers to use pseudonyms and not publicly reveal their identity, in order to keep them away from any unfounded claim with legal and legal consequences.
While pioneering Bitcoin personalities like Greg Maxwell have differed in the past on these arguments, Cobra does not dismiss the harassment that developers and community members have received. It refers especially to those who have shared or publicly disseminated the whitepaper or white paper of Bitcoin, the technical and theoretical foundational document of this technology and for which Craig Wright irreducibly claims his authorship.
Craig S. Wright is not Satoshi, clearly, but Calvin Ayre is funding this legal litigation and with a law firm "they play ball." They can make it very costly for developers and for Bitcoin.org, forcing them to pay for their legal defense ”, commented another user identified as CounterflyChick, in line with what Cobra argues.
On January 21, 2021, the Bitcoin whitepaper was removed from the Bitcoin Core code repository on GitHub, by the pseudonym OrionOwl moderator. As we reported on CryptoNews, the developer made this decision upon receiving legal notification from Craig S. Wright's attorneys.
Let's be clear about the following: I am happy to keep the Bitcoin Core code, but personally I will not be a Bitcoin martyr. It is up to you bitcoiners to protect it, OrionOwl
Although the white paper was disseminated by many members of the bitcoiner community, as well as entities such as Square and MicroStrategy, and even the governments of Miami and Estonia, Cobra does not believe that this way the protocol can be fully protected.