Lawyers from the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) raised doubts about the reliability of Wright’s witnesses’ recollections on Thursday during an ongoing trial probing Craig Wright’s claim to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.
Virtual testimony was provided by three witnesses, one of whom being Ignatius Pang, who has known Wright since 2007. In his speech, he mainly recalled that in 2008, Wright had asked him to create a LEGO blockchain, which he had compared to a Chinese recursive chain puzzle.
In his testimony, Robert Jenkins, a different witness, said that he discussed ideas related to bitcoin and blockchains with Wright sometime in 2009 or 2010. The final witness to testify on Thursday, Shoaib Yousef, stated that he spoke with Wright about digital currency in the late 2000s.
COPA’s lawyer, Jonathan Moss, questioned if the witnesses could honestly recollect what happened “16 years ago.” Jenkins and Yousef concurred that it could be challenging to narrate occurrences from that far past.
“I would suggest to you that you have confused these dates and details as you are looking back with the hindsight of what you now know,” Jenkins was told by Moss.
Similar remarks were made to Pang by Jonathan Hough, another COPA lawyer: “All I am saying to you is this hazy recollection is not a reliable recollection.”
Early in February, COPA filed a lawsuit against Wright, claiming he is not the anonymous creator of Bitcoin (BTC), Satoshi Nakamoto. Wright himself took the stand last week and was the subject of a week-long grilling that concluded on Wednesday.
On Friday, the trial is scheduled to resume with the testimony of three more witnesses.
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