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Craig Wright’s appeal application in his case against the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) was rejected by a UK court today, described as a baseless argument with “no prospect of success.” Court of Appeal judge Lord Justice Arnold wrote that the motion was refused “as being totally without merit.” Wright filed multiple appeals after he was found to undoubtedly not be Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, during legal proceedings against COPA earlier this year.  As reported by BitMex Research, Craig Wright’s appeal attempted to paint the judge as biased. However, today the court ruled “no credible allegation of either actual basis or apparent bias is made by Dr Wright, but only a series of disagreements with the judge’s reasoning.” “In fact the judge leant over backwards to ensure that Dr Wright received a fair trial,” the ruling said. COPA Vs CSW Breaking news! The court of appeal has rejected CSWs application to appeal pic.twitter.com/7nEg...

The investigator, Jameson Lopp, compiled archived emails from 2010, data from a 10-mile race in California in 2009, and other evidence to make the argument. Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney was competing in a 10-mile race at the exact time Satoshi Nakamoto was responding to emails and transacting on Bitcoin, newly surfaced evidence has revealed. For years, it has been commonly speculated that the late Hal Finney, a computer scientist, was the creator of Bitcoin. He was the first person besides Satoshi to download and run Bitcoin’s software and was the first recipient of Bitcoin. Finney, however, denied the theory until his passing in 2014. Jameson Lopp, a self-proclaimed cypherpunk and co-founder of Bitcoin custody fi Casa, doesn’t believe the speculation either. In an Oct. 21 blog post, Lopp shared new evidence that casts further doubt on the theory. Racing to send an email Lopp’s key evidence revolves around a 10-mile race in Santa Barbara, California on Saturday, April 18, 2009. Accordi...