Day 17The shortest day of the trial so far at little over an hour due to Craig's side dismissing most of their witnesses. Not much happened obviously, but the day opened with COPA confirming the recent email forgeries and they would have a report ready on them soon.
Day 18The "cryptocurrency expert" Prof Sarah Meiklejohn came across very well. It's funny how lawyers try to spin things in both ways. When Craig is caught plagiarising and his excuse is
I was hacked, it's always
well, is it possible he was hacked?, and the answer of course is
I suppose it is possible, but just like it's possible aliens from another dimension also beamed the forgeries onto his computer from their spaceship. I mean, you can't prove that they didn't do that, so I suppose it is
possible. When they were going over Craig's failed signing sessions Meiklejohn gave several ways Craig could have faked them including domain spoofing, wifi-hijacking etc, and Craig's team were pushing these as pie-in-the-sky claims but Meiklejohn's
it is possible was dismissed as unlikely fancifulness, even though she stated she didn't believe this is what likely happened (I don't think Craig is smart enough to do this when all it takes is changing a bit of code in electrum, which is probably what he did).
Zem Gao, a blatant Craig Wright fanboy was also cross-examined. I missed the first part of his evidence and him being sworn in and I initially thought he was on COPA's side he was making Craig look so bad. Not sure why Craigs defence had him on, and they ended with going through all his pro-Craig writings at the end which was pretty much an embarrassing slam dunk for his impartiality.
There was no day in court today and the trial will resume tomorrow, and if I understand correctly, Craig is back on the stand to answer the recent admission of the forged email. This should be interesting, but of course he will almost certainly just blame someone else. Hopefully both COPA and the judge take this opportunity to grill Craig rather than just letting him pass the buck to someone else, especially as this is a forgery that took place during the trial. For those wanting a quick refresher here is what happened with the forged email:
December 2019: Craig and Ontier had an unrelated email exchange
March 2020: Craig sends MYOB login info to Ontier, and they make screenshots that same day
8 Feb 2024:
* Craig is on the stand stating that Ontier received his MYOB login in 2019
* Ontier emails Shoosmiths stating that they did create the screenshots in March 2020, not earlier
18 Feb 2024: Craig sends an email to Ontier backdated to December 2019, makes it look part of that December 2019 email thread.
23 Feb 2024:
* Craig is on the stand again, affirming his previous statement and claiming he has the emails
* Ramona [Craig's wife] hands over backdated email
* Shoosmiths asks Ontier, attaches backdated email
* Ontier reconfirms no login details before March 2020, backdated email was found on their system but found to be received 18 Feb 2023, appears to be part of a December 2019 thread but different.
https://twitter.com/oisyn/status/1763202102266929394If you want to enjoy another couple of Craig's unbelievably stupid and sloppy forgeries here's a two more:
https://twitter.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1763201157713838500https://twitter.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1763252633177915783And if you want to read the COPA forensic reports used during the trial here they are:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/4y3gdele4foy15006z8ch/h?rlkey=scs42wew1o3vwfv0nduhc43dm&e=4&dl=0