The development of the case based on the LaTeX files

426.

This section is largely based on a section from the Written Closing Submissions from Counsel for the Developers, after I had checked the numerous references provided. It involves considerable detail, but in broad terms, the development proceeds through the following stages:

426.1.

First, the ‘before’ stage: it is important to note that, despite Dr Wright having numerous opportunities to mention that he had created the Bitcoin White Paper using LaTeX, but, more importantly, the notion that he had a LaTeX file which produced an ‘exact replica’ of the Bitcoin White Paper, such that mere possession of the file proved he was Satoshi, no mention of LaTeX was made in these proceedings until October 2023, or in any of the previous sets of litigation involving his claim to be Satoshi.

426.2.

Second, the ‘tease’, namely what was said the LaTeX files established in Dr Wright’s evidence for the PTR, followed by the ‘reveal’, the provision of a compilation of his version of the Bitcoin White Paper (from LaTeX) on 13 December 2023.

426.3.

Third, the ‘(partly failed) cover up’, in which the contrast is drawn between the fragmentary information made available concerning Dr Wright’s Overleaf account and Dr Wright’s efforts to resist the provision of metadata.

426.4.

Fourth, what Counsel for the Developers submitted was inescapable evidence of forgery of the LaTeX files by Dr Wright.