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COPA’s CEA Notice

275.

COPA adduced the following documents under a CEA Notice:

275.1.

A letter from Mr Lucas de Groot dated 14 June 2023 explaining that the Calibri Light font was not available until 2012. This was relevant to a number of Mr Madden’s findings that documents of Dr Wright are not authentic to their suggested dates and have been backdated.

275.2.

A letter from Mr Michael Stathakis and Ms Lee Li dated 10 July 2023 addressing a form of “Quill” notepad. One of Dr Wright’s Reliance Documents (and a document which he has personally verified) is a set of purported BDO meeting minutes from 2008 on this form of notepad ID_004013 {L2/159/1}. Mr Stathakis and Ms Li explain in some detail that this form of Quill notepad was not available until 2012.

275.3.

A witness statement from Mr Andreas Furche – Mr Furche has provided a witness statement but was not willing to give oral evidence, so his evidence is now relied upon under a CEA Notice. He is a Professor and researcher in fintech. He confirmed that neither he nor Professor Wrightson worked at Newcastle University after 2000 (which contradicts Dr Wright’s account that he engaged with both of them over the period 2005-2009). His account suggests that a series of statements Dr Wright has made about his work on the development of Bitcoin in various particulars are false.

275.4.

Emails in April and May 2022 from Professor Graham Wrightson confirming Mr Furche’s account and that he did not know Dr Wright.

275.5.

Extracts from the Lynn Wright deposition transcripts from the Kleiman proceedings. In cross-examination, Dr Wright sought to discredit this evidence, because Lynn Wright told the US Court that Dr Wright had never mentioned Bitcoin to her and had only once mentioned digital currency (evidence which conflicts directly with Dr Wright’s own). He attempted this by saying that she had not been fit to give evidence due to a medical procedure and treatment, and also that she had never been asked about her fitness, implying that this caused her to lose her memory on the points it did not accord with his. I reject this. It is clear from the transcript that at the start of her evidence she gave evidence that she was fit to testify. Furthermore, her testimony in the transcript reads as clear and coherent.

275.6.

An extract from the First Witness Statement of Mr John Chesher dated 1 May 2023 which was submitted by Dr Wright in the Coinbase proceedings. He has provided bookkeeping and accounting services to Dr Wright and gave evidence on the assets of Wright International Investments Limited. The significance of this extract is that Dr Wright claims to have shared a copy of the Bitcoin White Paper with Mr Chesher before its release, while Mr Chesher says that he did not meet Dr Wright until 2010.

275.7.

Emails from Mr Wei Dai from October 2023 confirming, amongst other things, that Mr Dai never provided code to Satoshi, contrary to what Dr Wright claimed. Wei Dai also explains that he has never worked in academia, contrary to Dr Wright’s description of him as an ‘academic’. This seems to have been another guess by Dr Wright.

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