Craig Wright could not name the person who sent the Bitcoin as “Satoshi”.

The seventh day of the COPA v Wright trial began on Tuesday, exposing a significant weakness in the latter's argument to convince the court that he was the inventor of Bitcoin.

When pressed by prosecutors, Craig Wright could not name someone out of the public domain who sent Bitcoin under Satoshi's name.

Who did Satoshi send the bitcoins to?

As summarized by @bitnorbert on X, COPA asked the computer scientist to confirm whether he sent the BTC to anyone other than Hal Finney or Zoko Wilcox – the co-founder of ZCash.

Wright asserted that he sent bitcoins to hundreds of people through a mix of entities whose blockchain addresses were publicly understood to belong to Satoshi Nakamoto. He said that Zoko was not one of them, although the cryptographer himself confirmed that he would never have received BTC from Satoshi.

Asked about the “hundreds” of coins that Satoshi transferred to others, Wright said, “I don't remember them all right now.” Judge Edward James Mellor asked Wright to name just one, but he balked.

“Gavin talked about it. It wasn't worth anything at the time, sir. Most of it was fake names,” he argued.

Rythm has faced questions about a public blog post he once allegedly signed to prove he was Satoshi, and has since been heavily criticized by experts. When asked if the “signing sessions” would be invalid authentication if the private keys behind them could be obtained by people other than Satoshi, Wright said, “Absolutely.”

“You don't prove identity by owning something. You testify with knowledge. how are you today. You create it,” Wright said.

Wright “Breakdown”.

Tuesday marked Wright's sixth day of standing cross-examination by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a non-profit group supported by Meta, Blockchain and Microstrategy.

The organization's goal is to prove that Wright has committed “industrial-scale forgery” and to prevent anyone who publicly says he is not Satoshi from being prosecuted, as he has done in the past.

Reflecting on Tuesday's proceedings, @bitnorbert said: “The strongest showing from Bitcoiners in court today.”

“All in all, another day a cornered person collapses helplessly in court while his counsel is forced to sit and watch in silence,” he wrote for X on Tuesday. Judge Mellor said he had to interrupt Wright several times to “get an answer out of him.”

Wright spent time on cross-examination to discredit several expert witnesses who said the defense evidence was perjury – including Spencer Lynch, who was hired by his own legal team.