Post by d a v i d

There's something to notice in how the COPA/Devs are using a mythical Satoshi to counter CSW. In their minds, Satoshi is the 5th element, the perfect being, flawless and without error. When ever CSW gives an answer they don't approve of, they speak on behalf of their 5th element Satoshi with a rebuttal of 'Satoshi would know this', or 'Satoshi would remember this', the redditors even say 'Satoshi wouldn't wear a suit!'. They've created a version of Satoshi that is flawless to counter anything CSW says that doesn't fit their agenda and they speak on behalf of this fictional Satoshi. You see this in MSM with politics a lot, 'sources tell us', 'people close to how the President thinks say…' - they create an invisible person, then speak on behalf of that invisible person.
COPA/Devs don't know who Satoshi is, they may not believe it's CSW but they don't know who Satoshi actually is, yet they speak on his behalf all the time. They accuse CSW of lying because he doesn't remember something and then suggest Satoshi would remember that. They believe if the real Satoshi was on the stand, he would remember every email sent/received, every person he interacted with, every anon he spoke too, every tiny detail in what other people created with Bitcoin, they believe Satoshi is as obsessed with Bitcoin (BTC) as they are and follows every forum, reddit and twitter threads in the same detail as they do - they assume a 'real Satoshi' would have a photographic memory that could recall every tiny detail over the last 20 years flawlessly because in their minds Satoshi is the 5th element, the perfect being and therefor CSW could not be this entity because CSW doesn't remember every little detail and CSW has faults. They are using these tricks to fool people and it's surprising the judge doesn't pull them up when they say something along the lines of "Satoshi would know this" because they can't possibly know what Satoshi would remember, what he would have forgotten or what he may have a different answer for.
COPA focused on the emails & docs of which CSW didn't give flawless memory recall. Now the devs are trying to focus the court on the coding side of Bitcoin because that is a known weak spot of CSW - but it was also a known weak spot of Satoshi which is why there was a lot of people in the dev community that worked to bring the Bitcoin software up to scratch after it was released.
But Satoshi invented a PROTOCOL, the whitepaper is explaining the PROTOCOL - a protocol is a set of rules. The only code that exists in the whitepaper is on page 7 and that little snippet is just converting the math equations into a basic script as an example of how they can convert.
The Bitcoin client software is seperate to the protocol. The software can be customised and different clients can run different versions of the software as long as it follows the rules of the PROTOCOL.
Watch for this in the trial if the Devs try to tarnish CSW with technical SOFTWARE and CODING questions - they know that's not his strongest area, they know a larger community contributed to these parts beyond what Satoshi was involved in and they know better devs will give better answers to code and software questions. They will try to make it seem like a real Satoshi would have followed all Dev work and know all things the devs did intimately so when CSW says he doesn't know or didn't pay attention they can claim their 5th element Satoshi would know this to speak on his behalf.