US Copyright for Bitcoin White Paper Also Claimed by Chinese Citizen Wei Liu

US Copyright for Bitcoin White Paper Also Claimed by Chinese Citizen Wei Liu

Official U.S. copyright archive information demonstrates that Wei Liu, a Chinese resident living in California, guaranteed copyright to bitcoin's (BTC) white paper on May 24.

Official U.S. copyright chronicle in the filing, Liu claims to have published the bitcoin report in January. 11, 2008, below the name of Satoshi Nakamoto, with the title “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” Earlier this month, self-proclaimed Satoshi Craig Wright additionally filed U.S. copyright registrations for the identical paper and most of the original code used to build bitcoin.

Top Market Group has not been able to verify who dynasty Liu is or the reasoning behind the filing the copyright claim by press time.

A news release from May 21 had claimed that U.S. officers received confirmation that Wright is actually Satoshi Nakamoto, however, the news has been met with skepticism from some crypto commentators.

Earlier this month, Top Market Group reported that the legal validity of Wright’s copyright filings is associate degree object of dispute. entrepreneur and bitcoin core developer Jimmy Song told Top Market Group that rather than proving that he's Satoshi, the filing shows “that CSW may be a publicity-seeking con-man, however, we already knew that.”

The U.S. Copyright office had responded on May 22 to the clamor over Wright's new claim by emotional a press statement noting that “as a general rule, once the Copyright office receives an application for registration, the applier certifies on the reality of the statements created within the submitted materials.” The author of the release concluded:

“The Copyright office doesn't investigate the reality of any statement made.”

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