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Craig Wright, the computer scientist was ruled to have lied “extensively and repeatedly”. The inventor of Bitcoin was sentenced to a year in prison by an English judge after being found in contempt of court. The sentence is suspended for two years, meaning Wright will only face jail if he re-offends within that period.
Judge James Edward Mellor at a hearing at the UK Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that in bringing to Wright $1.15 trillion claim In October, there was a breach against Bitcoin developers and payments firm Square earlier court order. The order required Wright to refrain from publicly claiming he was Satoshi NakamotoThe creator of Bitcoin and taking legal action on that basis, among other things.
Craig Wright could not be reached for comment. He is in court informed said that he would object to the contempt order.
The contempt of court case was filed in February by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a nonprofit consortium of crypto firms. He sued Wright Hoping to secure an official declaration that he is not Satoshi. The goal was to prevent Wright from advancing numerous separate courts Against Bitcoin developers and other parties, through which he sought to protect his intellectual property rights over Bitcoin and is protected from any future lawsuits.
On March 14, the last day of the six-week trial, Mellor a rare sudden verdict: “The evidence is overwhelming,” he said in the courtroom. “Dr. Wright is not a person adopting or operating under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.”
“It is clear that Dr. Wright engaged in the deliberate fabrication of false documents to support false claims and use them as a vehicle to defraud the Courts,” Mellor wrote. judgment. “I completely agree that Dr. Wright lied extensively and repeatedly to the Court. All his lies and forged documents confirmed his biggest lie: that he claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto.”
At a hearing in July, as well as making various orders against Wright, Mellor ordered the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which is responsible for prosecuting criminal cases in the UK, to “consider bringing criminal charges for wholesale perjury” against Wright. ” (CPS has not yet charged Wright with perjury.)
