Since the start of the trial, Judge Mellor had shown real restraint. If you followed Norbert on Twitter, you would have enjoyed his minute-by-minute updates about the cross examinations as he was present inside the courtroom. The court even had a provision for getting access to the live feed but it was illegal to make any sort of recordings.
There were some hilarious moments including wright being asked what a "const unsigned int" means. He was unable to explain what unsigned was.
Then there was the amazing stuff about wright talking about hosted platforms changing his documents, the new excuse about the watermark in whitepaper. It truly was like the narcissistic, pathological liar was inventing lies on the fly. At a lot of points, he has his own lawyers embarrassed. If i recall correctly, his lawyer at one point said, "I am not sure my client knows what he is talking about my lord".
The high point of course was the closing remarks by Judge Mellor recounted below for your enjoyment. Read every line to your heart's content for all the times that you had been exasperated seeing that slickly dressed, smug SoB bamboozle people with his feigned expertise and jargon. Here is what Judge Mellor said at closing:
MR JUSTICE MELLOR: Thank you. Well, I thank all the parties for their written closing and oral arguments, and they've been very helpful indeed.They will require me to prepare a fairly lengthy written judgment, which will be handed down in due course. And for all those who have already been hassling my clerk as to when the judgment will be ready, the short answer is as follows: it will be ready when it's ready and not before.
However, having considered all the evidence and submissions presented to me in this trial, I've reached the conclusion that the evidence is overwhelming. Therefore, for the reasons which will be explained in that written judgment in due course, I will make certain declarations which I am satisfied are useful and are necessary to do justice between the parties.- First, that Dr Wright is not the author of the Bitcoin White Paper.
- Second, Dr Wright is not the person who adopted or operated under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto in the period 2008 to 2011.
- Third, Dr Wright is not the person who created the Bitcoin System.
- And, fourth, he is not the author of the initial versions of the Bitcoin software.