London court allows Australia’s Wright to serve bitcoin copyright claim
By Kirstin Ridley
LONDON (Reuters) – London’s High Court has paved one of the best ways for a case that will drive its judges to take a view on who invented bitcoin, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency which last week soared to all-time highs.
The court has allowed Craig Wright, an Australian laptop computer scientist who alleges he created bitcoin, to serve a copyright infringement lawsuit in opposition to the operator and author of the bitcoin.org web page, which calls itself Cobra, over Twitter or a generic e mail sort out.
Wright can now try to pursue his case — titled Wright v Person(s) unknown, “Cobra” — although the defendant might be resident abroad and has not disclosed a repute, identification or sort out, in accordance to court filings issued on Wednesday and seen by Reuters on Thursday.
The case …