Post by d a v i d

If CSW is Satoshi then he owns the blockchain that was formed by his protocol since he issued the 'bounty' by creating and releasing the protocol. What Satoshi did is create a legal contract that is paid with block rewards. CSW always mentions that terms in the whitepaper are legal terms because the whitepaper is written to align with law so the contract is valid. The reason the whitepaper is concise is because it uses legal terms that can be extrapolated on with existing frameworks under law.
The contract is that if you follow the protocol, spend your money and energy building the block chain, then Satoshi as the issuer of the protocol will pay you a block reward for your work because the protocol generates all the coins and pays them upon successful block creation. That is the contract, that's why miners have to follow the rules to get the block rewards and fees, a bad miner can be ignored, their work denied and even sued if they continue their actions to attack the network or try and write it differently to the protocol.
This is why CSW says he is the issuer and the blockchain is his property because Satoshi created the contract with the Whitepaper and issued it via the protocol.
This is also why Satsohi went into hiding when Bitcoin became an Anon dark market coin because as the issuer, he has created a monetary system that is paying rewards for people to build a crimecoin network.
After CSW was doxxed he was reluctant to admit to being Satoshi, after the 2017 split he was suggesting he was Satoshi and it wasn't until BSV was back to the original protocol that he started claiming 100% to be Satoshi - that's important because he doesn't want to be tied to the other chains as the issuer of those rewards.
So if CSW is Satoshi then BTC have stolen the database, stopped running the protocol and are passing their chain off as his invention which is a theft of the block rewards and violation of the contract.
The software won't really matter because that is flexible and under a different set of rights which allows for people to mod it and make their own versions.