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UK court calls man claiming to have invented Bitcoin a liar
Craig Wright is many things, but he isn’t Satoshi Nakamoto.
Wright spent the following years aggressively attempting to prove that he is Satoshi: testifying on several occasions that he wrote the currency’s original white paper, challenging people developing Bitcoin-related projects, and filing defamation lawsuits against those who accused him of lying. Wright’s latest legal battle was instigated by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a nonprofit organization that sought to stop him from allegedly threatening developers by disproving his claim to Satoshi’s identity. The case concluded on March 14th after a six-week investigation, with London High Court Judge James Mellor ruling that Wright didn’t create Bitcoin and is not Satoshi.
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