I know the final verdict has not been done yet, but I wonder if CW will be given the opportunity to take this on appeal to a higher court... and simply dragging this out for years?
Can someone with some legal knowledge sketch a possible roadmap for a case like this and what options could be followed?
My guess is, CW will go on until the money runs out.. and that might take years with the support he is getting.
Even though CSW has not yet been convicted of fraud, it seems pretty crazy to continue to represent someone in which the evidence is more and more clear that various kind of frauds have been carried out. Yeah, they likely want to milk various aspects of the businesses if there is anything left to salvage in terms of pattens or abilities to milk the BSV system to the extent that there are still suckers paying them by buying that crap. There are a lot of outstanding cases that are either going to be directly or indirectly affected by this ruling.. the value of the patents are likely going to go down too.. to the extent any of the patents have any value.. my understanding is that a lot of the NChain patents are stupid, and they cost money to keep them active. and money to defend them, if they actually find cases in which they might be able to try to coerce innocent folks/businesses to pay them to license if there might be some overlapping arguable infringements (rather than just the appearance of infringement).
It surely would be nice for a criminal case to be started against CSW, even before the written judgement is issued, and of course, if no criminal case has yet been filed, it cannot be counted on to be coming - even though it is likely well overdue.
Not that anyone in their right mind ever believed that CW was actually Satoshi, but this whole lawsuit saga has been such a drag, just sucking up time and money for no good reason. Wright's got a long track record of fibbing about Bitcoin, so glad the judge saw the truth at least, even if Wright won't own up to his lies.
So yeah, hopefully were done with this sideshow. No more pointless courtroom episodes. Bitcoin has better things to do than deal with posers pretending to be Satoshi for attention.
CSW's behavior likely stifled developer's open involvement in BTC, and yeah maybe there are some advantages in some of them going anonymous, yet I would think that some free speech and public participation has been stifled, and there seems to be value in some of the transparency and public exchange of information that likely had been negatively affected by CSW et als threats of legal suits.