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Apple’s Storage of Bitcoin White Paper Sparks Copyright Controversy

Apple’s Storage of Bitcoin White Paper Sparks Copyright Controversy

Craig Wright, a computer scientist claiming to be Bitcoin's creator, has suggested that Apple may be violating copyright laws.

Wright answered in the affirmative to a question on Twitter about whether Apple was breaching copyright by storing the Bitcoin white paper on its computers.

It was recently discovered that the explanatory paper of the largest cryptocurrency was stored on Apple machines without the knowledge of many Mac users.

Wright has previously claimed that spin-offs derived from Bitcoin are in breach of his intellectual property rights, as he alleges that he is the original creator of the blockchain.

However, he has been criticized for not having the proof to support his claim. Wright has not responded to whether he intends to sue Apple for copyright infringement.


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He is a supporter of Bitcoin SV, which split from Bitcoin Cash in November 2018 and is currently in the process of suing 15 Bitcoin developers to retrieve around 111,000 BTC after losing the encrypted keys to access them.

In February of this year, Wright lost a claim in a UK court to protect the Bitcoin blockchain by copyright. Despite this, Wright continues to assert that he is the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.

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Alexander Stefanov - Editor-in-Chief at Coinspress
Alexander Stefanov

Reporter at CoinsPress

Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coinspress and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.

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