As declarações de Wright ocorrem logo depois que a Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA) anunciou uma parceria com a Unified Patents para proteger a comunidade de “trolls de patentes”.
A COPA afirma que estas entidades podem potencialmente abusar dos direitos de patente para processar ou ameaçar empresas sem realmente fabricarem ou venderem produtos. A Cryptopolitan relatou anteriormente que a aliança quer impedir reivindicações desnecessárias de patentes que sufocam a inovação do blockchain.
Esta é a sua desonestidade: falam de liberdade, mas defendem um mundo em que o indivíduo não tenha protecção, nem recurso, nem direitos.
Eles não lutam pela liberdade; eles lutam por um sistema em que os tron devorem os fracos, onde a mente seja subserviente a…
— S Tominaga (@CsTominaga) 2 de outubro de 2024
In what seems like a dig at COPA, Wright says that true capitalism is rooted in protecting rights, including intellectual property. He takes a dig at “anarchists” and “cypherpunks” for promoting chaos and undermining these protections.
Wright states, “The anarchists reject these safeguards not because they oppose tyranny, but because they oppose the individual’s right to protect what is theirs.” The businessman goes on to use words like “dishonest” and “enemy of freedom,” which seem to indirectly implicate COPA.
Craig Wright, who long claimed to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, lost the claim in a legal battle with COPA this year. While Wright cannot initiate new lawsuits with claims that were already set aside by the court, he is not barred from fresh claims and appeals.
COPA is a non-profit that is backed by major crypto platforms.
Since the split of Bitcoin SV (BSV) from Bitcoin Cash (BCH) in 2018, Wright has been a supporter of the former. Wright recently said that he wants BSV to win because it expresses efficiency, scalability, and decentralization. He also claims, “BTC is no longer what it claims to be.”
Despite the endorsement, BSV remains 90% below its all-time high in April 2021. At press time, BSV is under $50 with 20% return on value this year. In terms of market cap, BSV stands 85th on CoinGecko with a capitalization of about $900 million.
BSV experienced heightened volatility around March and April, which was the time of Bitcoin’s halving. Since then, BSV has been underperforming the crypto market and PoW peers. Per CoinGecko, BSV has lost 10% value in 7 days while the global crypto market has declined by about 4%. Proof-of-Work cryptos have lost about 5%.