Craig Wright’s journey into Martyrdom is almost complete. His fake Messiah story, just like all his other stories, will come to an end soon with a General Civil Restraint Order (GCRO) being placed on him, following a court hearing on Friday that he didn’t even bother attending, not even remotely. COPA was allowed to write the order that Mellor J will sign off in the near future. The GCRO will prevent Wright from bringing any further actions without the permission of the court, thereby bringing his litigation antics to a final end. Wright will undoubtedly use this to show that he has been martyred for his cause, which he still claims is creation of the real Bitcoin. The question now is whether, and how, he will try to get his revenge on the people he sees as having attacked him, even though of course he was the aggressor in the first place. For now he has gone quiet but has indicated that he is working secretly behind the scenes. On what we don’t know. Given his personality, we should not be surprised if he comes back fighting in some way, inevitably again with lots of lies.
As a bonus for those who have been following this closely, it seems likely that Wright will also be placed on what is known as the vexatious litigant list, which will prevent him from initiating any court action without the permission of the court indefinitely (unlike a GCRO, which is time limited).
GOV.UK
Vexatious litigants
List of vexatious litigants, banned from starting court cases without permission.
There are people on this list who have been there for over 50 years. The longest serving one is Ida Matthews, who has been on the list since 1950. For what, I don’t know.
One possibility for future action, which Wright has already threatened, is that he will try to initiate patent infringement proceedings through the company nChain (soon to be Teranode), which owns hundreds of patents, many of which have Wright as an inventor. Since Wright doesn’t own or control the patents, it seems these actions would not be covered by any civil restraint order. Mellor J has, however, already indicated that he for one would view any infringement action somewhat sceptically.
It seems unlikely, at least to me, that nChain has any patents that could realistically be a threat to anyone working in Bitcoin, for three main reasons. The first is that Wright did not invent Bitcoin, can’t code and doesn’t even understand how Bitcoin works. The chances therefore of him coming up with any inventions that could be useful or cover any aspect of the real Bitcoin seem remote. The second is that any inventions that have been patented have a priority date of 2016 at the very earliest, which is long after Bitcoin was first developed. The third is that any other inventors working for nChain were employed to develop BSV, so any valid inventions coming from them would be very unlikely to cover anything significant on Bitcoin.
The most likely outcome from all this seems to me that Wright will just disappear gradually into the wilderness, possibly shouting and screaming as he goes but, apart from his diminishing group of cult followers, nobody will need to pay him any attention.
