Satoshi or Not, Here He Comes

> Contrary to what the email to Hearn seems to indicate and what the Sourceforge trail appears to show, Wright claims he did not agree to the transfer of power. He says a new crop of Bitcoin developers, including Wladimir van der Laan, the former lead maintainer of the code repository, circumvented the administrator controls Wright used to manage the codebase when they moved the software to Github and then changed the license there. Essentially, Wright claims, bitcoin was stolen. “What I didn't expect was people to redo everything like that to bypass my administrator control,” he says. “So they set up completely new sites, and moved me out.” In an email to Forbes, van der Laan denied moving the codebase. He also denied changing the license. “This was done by Satoshi,” he wrote.

I can see they use the word "claims," but it's not exactly something that the author of the article should have a hard time double-checking.

The article is very different from what I was expecting. It's discussing Criag Wright's patents in crypto, and if he will be able to collect royalties on crypto and what that would do to the community.