Odaily Planet Daily News: A British judge ruled this week that the file format of the Bitcoin blockchain is not protected by copyright, and therefore ruled against Craig Wright. Wright claimed that he wrote the 2008 Bitcoin white paper under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakomoto and had the right to prevent the operation of Bitcoin and the system Bitcoin Cash that was forked from it because they infringed his intellectual property rights. Wright's allegations were directed at many defendants related to Bitcoin, including several departments of Coinbase. Wright claimed that the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision blockchain he created from another Bitcoin fork was the real blockchain behind Bitcoin. In a ruling on Tuesday, Judge James Mellor said that Bitcoin's file format (the header sequence and transaction list together constitute a block) cannot be considered a copyright work because Wright could not show how they were first recorded. The claim for copyright of the 2008 white paper and whether Wright is really the author will be the subject of a later ruling. Earlier news, Craig Wright sued 16 Bitcoin developers in the UK, and the case is about to go to trial in London. Craig Wright sued 16 developers including Roger Ver, Blockstream co-founder Matt Corallo and Greg Maxwell, demanding compensation for $4 billion worth of Bitcoin lost or stolen by hackers. The case was dismissed in March 2022. (CoinDesk)