In February, I am due to face a group of individuals and corporate entities in London’s High Court, where I intend to uphold my intellectual property rights in Bitcoin as its creator. However, the focus of my various litigations to date has never been on revealing my pseudonymous identity as Satoshi Nakamoto, but on mandating that Bitcoin remains faithful to its central principles. These are set out in the Bitcoin White Paper, today widely recognised as the authoritative foundation of all forms of Bitcoin: it describes a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, focusing on enabling small casual transactions (known as ... (full story)