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Craig Wright Found in Contempt of Court Over Bitcoin Creation Claims
A UK judge has ruled that Craig Wright violated a court order preventing him from bringing lawsuits based on his spurious claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin.
Craig Wright, the computer scientist ruled to have lied “extensively and repeatedly” about being the inventor of Bitcoin, has been given a one-year prison sentence by a UK judge after being found in contempt of court. The order required that Wright refrain from claiming publicly to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, and taking legal action on that basis, among other things. The aim was to prevent Wright from carrying forward multiple separate lawsuits against Bitcoin developers and other parties, through which he was trying to assert intellectual property rights over Bitcoin—and to ward off any future lawfare.
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