Estonia And Colombia Decide To Host Bitcoin Whitepaper

Last week, Craig Wright – who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto – had his lawyers send takedown requests to multiple hosts of the Bitcoin Whitepaper, including Bitcoincore and Bitcoin.org.

Dispute Regarding Identity

Although Bitcoincore complied with the takedown request, Bitcoin.org refused to, stating that there is no proof that he really is Satoshi – although if he were, he could prove himself to be him.

In fact, Satoshi Nakamoto has a publicly-known PGP key that Mr. Wright could use to verify his claim, if he truly is Satoshi Nakamoto.

“We will continue hosting the Bitcoin whitepaper and won’t be silenced or intimidated. Others hosting the whitepaper should follow our lead in resisting these false allegations. We believe these claims are without merit, and refuse to [take it down]. By surrendering in this way, the Bitcoin Core project has lent ammunition to Bitcoin’s enemies, engaged in self-censorship, and compromised its integrity.”

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Since then, multiple other websites and entities have made the decision to host the Bitcoin whitepaper, considering that Craig Wright – who is the chief scientist at nChain – is demanding something that goes against the principles Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general have been founded on.

Among these entities, the governments of Colombia and Estonia have chosen to host the whitepaper on their servers.

Estonia has been climbing their way to the top of the fintech world for quite some time now, so this decision should not come as a surprise.

Although not on behalf of the government, Patrick McHenry of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee has also decided to host the whitepaper on his official congressional government webpage.

The original whitepaper was published under a free and permissive MIT liscence, and many believe that the copyright claims go against everything blockchain technology was founded upon.