Craig Wright, who has repeatedly and falsely claimed to be Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, was handed a one-year suspended sentence in the United Kingdom for five counts of contempt of court. The computer scientist was also fined £145,000, approximately $180,000 for his actions. Wright Breached Court Order During a December 19 hearing, Judge James...Read More
Dr. Craig S Wright – the man who claimed for years to be Satoshi Nakamoto – has formally admitted that he is not, in fact, Bitcoin’s creator. “Dr. Craig Steven Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto,” wrote the computer scientist in a Wednesday tweet. Wright followed with a summary of the England and Wales High Court...Read More
Australian computer scientist Craig Wright’s claims to be Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, could lead British prosecutors to charge him with perjury and forgery of documents. A new ruling in the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) vs. Wright case revealed that High Court Justice James Mellor has referred Wright’s misconduct to the Crown Prosecution Service...Read More
A UK judge has officially ruled that Craig Wright is guilty of forgery “on a grand scale” following the computer scientist’s decisive court loss in March. In a written judgment published on Monday, High Court Justice James Mellor said Wright lied “extensively and repeatedly” in court to support his “biggest lie” – his claim to...Read More
The seventh day of the COPA v. Wright trial kicked off on Tuesday, exposing a glaring weakness in the latter’s argument to convince the court that he is the creator of Bitcoin. When pressed by prosecutors, Craig Wright failed to name a single person outside of the public domain to whom he had sent Bitcoin...Read More
Self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright grew flustered during cross-examination on Wednesday as prosecutors mounted evidence disputing his identity as Satoshi Nakamoto. The computer scientist stands accused of forging multiple documents to give credence to his “false narrative” which expert witnesses – including his own – have now agreed were likely tampered with. Craig Wright Smears...Read More
Self-styled Bitcoin creator Craig Wright appeared in court on Monday to face well-funded prosecutors seeking to prove that the computer scientist is not, in fact, Satoshi Nakamoto. The legal battle is widely expected to bring an end to recurring lawsuits launched by Wright against the crypto community, which has largely met his proclamations with skepticism...Read More
The U.K. Supreme Court has rejected Craig Wright’s request to appeal a decision in his legal dispute with popular Bitcoin podcaster Peter McCormack, as reported by a lawyer on Thursday. The recent development seems to be another setback for the Australian computer scientist. Despite his persistent claims of being Satoshi Nakamoto, he has been unable...Read More
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has ruled in favor of self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright in his legal dispute with Ira Kleiman over rights to bitcoin (BTC) worth billions of dollars. According to an official document, the Appeal Court ruled that the district court’s verdict would stand as there is...Read More
Craig Wright is not someone to stay out of the spotlight for a long time. In the latest development, the self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator was ordered to pay approximately $516,000 (400,000 British pounds) in security covering legal costs to pursue claims against crypto exchanges Coinbase and Kraken. The lawsuit against Coinbase and Kraken’s parent company Payward...Read More
Tulip Trading – a Seychelles-based company founded by Craig Wright – has successfully brought its case against multiple Bitcoin developers to trial in the United Kingdom. Wright’s firm alleges that these developers owe “fiduciary duties,” or “duties of care” to police and control the Bitcoin network. The Duties of Bitcoin Developers The ruling, handed down...Read More
In the final trial between Bitcoin proponent Peter McCormack and computer scientist Craig Steven Wright (CSW), UK High Court Judge Martin Chamberlain ruled that the former should pay a fine of $1.1 million. According to the court document, McCormack failed to prove that he was telling the truth when he labeled Wright a fraud. However,...Read More
Famous whistleblower and ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden clapped back at the self-styled Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Wright on Monday, after the latter accused Snowden of being a traitor. The intelligence expert suggested that Wright has committed fraud, and is lying about his identity as Bitcoin’s creator. The feud began with Snowden publishing a copy of Bitcoin’s...Read More
Twitter’s anonymous Bitcoiner Hodlonaut has officially won their lawsuit against Craig Wright – the Australian computer Scientist who claims to be Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. According to the ruling, Norwegian judge Helen Engebrigtsen declared that Hodlonaut had “sufficient factual grounds to claim that Wright had lied and cheated in his attempt to prove that he...Read More
For years, Australian computer scientist – Craig Wright – has claimed that he is the mythical figure who created Bitcoin. But according to the crypto community, the truth cannot be further away. The man’s credibility has taken yet another hit amid the latest lawsuit with his involvement. It cannot get more bizarre than this. Lack...Read More
Craig Wright – the self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto – only received £1 as the result of the defamatory case against crypto podcaster Peter McCormack, a well-known Bitcoin proponent who had called the computer scientist a liar on multiple occasions. U.K. High Court Judge Martin Chamberlain ruled in favor of Wright, stating that the crypto...Read More
Dorsey continues to work on new bitcoin-related endeavors by launching a new fund to provide legal defense for BTC developers. Called “Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund,” its first activity will be to assist in the ongoing Tulip Trading lawsuit. In an email sent to BTC developers, Dorsey described the new fund as a “nonprofit entity that...Read More
Craig Wright – the man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto (the inventor of Bitcoin) – has been found to not have had a business partnership with Dave Kleiman, a deceased Florida forensics expert. However, he still must pay $100 million in compensation for stealing Kleiman’s company in Florida. The Ruling The ruling for Wright’s...Read More
Craig Wright, the man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, has just won a legal dispute related to the copyrights of the Bitcoin Whitepaper. According to information from Ontier LLP, the law firm representing Craig Wright, the nChain scientist was today awarded a default judgment in his copyright infringement action against ‘Cøbra.’ Craig Wright 1,...Read More
Craig Wright’s legal attempts to sue a dozen developers working on the networks of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Cash ABC, and Bitcoin SV have been approved. By tapping a law firm called ONTIER, the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto will go after the developers to make them recover over $4 billion of BTC supposedly stolen from his...Read More
The self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Wright, has filed yet another lawsuit within the cryptocurrency industry. This time, he has targeted the developers of BTC, BCH, BSV, and BCH ABC requesting that they retrieve access to BTC stolen from his personal computer worth about $5 billion. CSW Sues BTC Developers Because he was Hacked Wright has...Read More
The popular crypto exchange OKCoin has made a somewhat controversial decision to delist two Bitcoin forks – Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV). According to the platform’s CEO, the company is doing what’s in the best interest of Bitcoin’s ecosystem while trying to act against Craig Wright’s recent lawsuit urging various websites to remove...Read More
Lawyers representing the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Steven Wright, have sent letters to two websites, asking them to remove BTC’s whitepaper. While bitcoin.org has refused to do so, noting that these claims are meritless, bitcoincore.org has deleted the whitepaper. CSW Lawyers Demand BTC Whitepaper Removal Popular Bitcoin contributor, going by the nickname “Cobra,” who was...Read More
Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, has seen another failure in his ongoing legal battle against the popular cryptocurrency proponent going by the Twitter handle Hodlonaut. The Supreme Court in Norway rejected Wright’s jurisdiction appeal. CSW Vs. Hodlonaut: The Backstory Craig Wright has attracted lots of attention to himself, especially after claiming on numerous occasions...Read More
Craig Wright’s tactics for delaying the Kleiman estate litigation process may be coming to an end. The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has denied “on all grounds” the motion introduced by Craig S. Wright to dismiss the long-standing Kleiman vs. Wright lawsuit. Wright’s motion was denied “on all grounds” When...Read More
One of the most popular supporters of Craig Wright has started filming a documentary aiming to prove that Wright is indeed the creator of Bitcoin. At the same time, Wright said in a recent interview that BTC HODLers are not using the asset properly as he envisioned, and he has returned to “make things right.”...Read More
Lawyers for the estate of Dave Kleiman claim Craig Wright and his ex-wife, Lynn Wright, again attempted to defraud the courts by lying about Ms. Wright’s role in her ex-husband’s former firm, W&K Info Defense Research. Craig Wright Contradicts Courts Again? Craig Wright’s counsel had built part of a legal argument on the claim that...Read More
Craig Wright, the man who claims to be Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, says Bitcoin is not and was never intended to be, censorship-resistant. According to Wright, who wrote in a blog post from July 10 titled What is Censorship Resistance, the common assumption that Bitcoin holders are protected from economic censorship is nothing but a...Read More
Court documents reveal the self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin, Craig Wright, may have subjected himself to a suicide attempt in May 2016. That’s according to the deposition of Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen, who recounted the story during the ongoing trial between Craig Wright and the estate of Dave Kleiman. Context: Craig Wright’s Failed Attempt to Move...Read More
Just recently, the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, ventured into mining, launching its Binance Pool. Now, data has it that it’s become the leading miner of Bitcoin SV. Interestingly enough, the exchange delisted BSV back in 2019, following the massive controversy surrounding the popular BSV proponent – Craig Wright. Binance Leads in Bitcoin SV Mining...Read More
