The unfolding drama surrounding the buying of the Bitcoin (BTC) whitepaper could very well make its fashion to the courts, after both sides embroiled in the dispute told Cointelegraph they're ready to "become all the way."

On January. 21, the owners of two Bitcoin websites were threatened with legal action by lawyers representing Craig Wright, the man who claims to be Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. Wright claims to be the original copyright holder of the Bitcoin whitepaper, and demanded that both sites remove their locally hosted copies of the certificate on threat of legal activeness.

One website, Bitcoincore.org, has since removed the whitepaper, reasoning that condign entangled in a plush legal boxing with the litigation-happy Wright would achieve little, and isn't a colina worth dying on.

Still, the owner of Bitcoin.org, which was also targeted by Wright, has then far refused to remove the whitepaper, and said he has no intention of doing and then.

Speaking exclusively to Cointelegraph, the pseudonymous programmer known as Cobra said he'd be willing to defend himself in courtroom should legal proceedings be brought confronting him.

"No legal proceedings have actually started, but we're prepared to go all the fashion and defend ourselves if information technology comes downwardly to it."

Ed Pownall of CoinGeek, who has spoken on behalf of Craig Wright in the past, told Cointelegraph that Cobra and others who refused to comply had 4 options ahead of them:

  1. "Do not respond and do nothing: this will result in Craig issuing court proceedings against them for copyright infringement"
  2. "Respond to our letters and tell us where to become: every bit higher up"
  3. "Answer to our letters telling usa they are taking downwards the WP / the publications of the WP from their websites, and they actually practice so: no activity to take against them"
  4. "Do non reply to our letters just still accept down the WP / the publications of the WP from their websites: as per 3"

When presented with this 4-indicate ultimatum from Wright's squad, Cobra's response was edgeless, appearing to bespeak a preference for option number 1. He said:

"Seems like what I thought, and we'll just not respond, f*** them."

Pownall said that should Cobra fail to respond to legal proceedings, Wright's counsel would be willing to apply to the courts for a default judgement, where a accused who fails to respond or offer a defence is judged without trial.

In 2019, Wright attempted to sue Ethereum (ETH) creator Vitalik Buterin for defamation later on Buterin ridiculed Wright'south claim of being Satoshi Nakamoto, calling him a fraud. In this example, Buterin simply didn't respond to the letter and the borderline eventually ran out.

Wright has previously launched lawsuits against numerous figures in the cryptocurrency space, including Bitcoin podcaster, Peter McCormack, Bitcoin programmer, Adam Dorsum, and founder of Bitcoin.com, Roger Ver — all with varying degrees of success.