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After Court Order, Craig Wright Updates Website With Admission He Is Not Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto
Australian computer scientist and former Satoshi Nakamoto claimant Craig Wright has been forced to update his homepage your personal website with a disclaimer stating that he is not the inventor of Bitcoin.
The notice — which must be displayed on Wright’s website for six months — states that Wright lied “extensively and repeatedly” in court proceedings where he claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, and “attempted to create a false narrative by forging documents ‘on a massive scale.’” Wright’s web of lies, woven through “multiple legal actions,” constitutes a “very serious abuse” of the legal systems in the UK, Norway and the US, the statement says. It also links visitors to the full trial against Wright, and “its appendix detailing numerous forged documents created by Dr. Wright.”
The notice is part of a disclosure order granted by UK judge Justice James Mellor, who is overseeing the case brought against Wright by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a non-profit organization representing Bitcoin developers.
COPA, which is backed by crypto industry heavyweights such as Block’s Jack Dorsey and Coinbase, as well as organizations like Human Rights Watch, sued Wright in 2021 to obtain a definitive ruling that he is not Nakamoto, to stop him from claiming copyright on the Bitcoin whitepaper and to prevent him from suing its critics and developers under the pretense that he created Bitcoin.
Earlier this year, Mellor ruled that Wright was not the creator of Bitcoin. In a written statement that followed two months later, he stated that Wright had lied throughout the trial and fabricated evidence.
On Tuesday, Mellor issued a final judgment in the case, referring Wright — as well as his colleague and character witness, nChain co-founder Stefan Matthews — to UK prosecutors, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to be considered for perjury charges.
The dissemination order granted by Mellor was part of his final judgment. Wright was also ordered to post a similar notice on his Twitter/X account and in the Slack channels where he communicates with supporters.
At the time of publication, Wright had not yet updated his X account to display the disclaimer. His most recent post, dated May 20, is a declaration of his intention to appeal Mellor’s ruling that he was not Satoshi Nakamoto.
In Mellor’s final judgment, he said Wright had made “no application for permission to appeal” despite what he had said on social media.