Can Bitcoin finally move on from Craig Wright?
England’s High Court of Justice delivered a heavy blow to Wright with a judgment that said he “lied to the court extensively and repeatedly.”
Nearly a decade after Craig Wright began terrorizing the Bitcoin (BTC) community with claims that he was Satoshi Nakamoto, a British court has delivered a verdict: Wright is not Satoshi.
The ruling came this month from Justice James Mellor of England’s High Court of Justice in a civil case spearheaded by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA). His decision stated Wright “lied to the court extensively and repeatedly” while engaging “in forgery on a grand scale” to prove he was Satoshi.
Mellor excoriated Wright at length in his scathing judgment, writing, in part:
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