Australian computer scientist and former Satoshi Nakamoto claimant Craig Wright has been forced to update the homepage of Your personal website with a disclaimer stating that he is not the inventor of Bitcoin.
The notice, which must be visible on Wright’s website for six months, states that Wright “extensively and repeatedly” lied in court proceedings in which he claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, and “sought to create a false narrative by falsifying documents ‘on a massive scale.’” Wright’s web of lies, concocted through “multiple legal actions,” constitutes an “extremely serious abuse” of the legal systems of the United Kingdom, Norway, and the United States, the statement says. It also links visitors to the full judgment against Wright and “its appendix detailing various 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 nonprofit representing Bitcoin developers.
COPA, which is funded by crypto industry heavyweights like Block and Coinbase’s Jack Dorsey as well as organizations like Human Rights Watch, sued Wright in 2021 seeking a definitive ruling that he is not Nakamoto to prevent him from claiming copyright to the Bitcoin whitepaper and suing its critics and developers alike on the grounds that he created Bitcoin.
Earlier this year, Mellor ruled that Wright was not the creator of Bitcoin. In a written judgment handed down two months later, he said Wright had lied throughout the trial and falsified evidence.
On Tuesday, Mellor issued a final judgment in the case referring Wright, as well as his colleague and trusted witness, nChain co-founder Stefan Matthews, to UK prosecutors, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), to be considered for perjury charges.
The disclosure order granted by Mellor was part of his final sentence. Wright was also ordered to post a similar notice on his Twitter/X account and on the Slack channels where he communicates with his followers.
At the time of publication, Wright had not yet updated his X account to display the disclaimer. His most recent post, from May 20, is a statement of his intention to appeal Mellor’s decision that he was not Satoshi Nakamoto.
In the final judgment, Mellor said Wright had made “no application for leave to appeal” despite what he had said on social media.
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