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Craig Wright Faces Perjury Investigation Over Claims He Created Bitcoin
By order of a UK judge, Craig Wright can no longer claim he is the creator of bitcoin and now faces the prospect of criminal charges.
A judge in the UK High Court has directed prosecutors to consider bringing criminal charges against computer scientist Craig Wright, after ruling that he lied “extensively and repeatedly” and committed forgery “on a grand scale” in service of his quest to prove he is Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin. By order of the judge, Wright will be prevented from claiming publicly that he is Satoshi and bringing or threatening legal action in any jurisdiction on that basis. “Dr Wright’s sinister and mendacious campaign to establish himself as Satoshi over many years and involving wholescale lies and forgery requires an extraordinary response,” he wrote.
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