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High Court agrees to amend particulars of claim in January hearing over identity of bitcoin inventor
Awidely-awaited High Court trial to determine a computer scientist's claim to be the inventor of the bitcoin digital currency will hear evidence of forgery and fraudulent behaviour, a judge ruled today. Accepting an application to amend particulars of claim in Crypto Open Patent Alliance v Dr Craig Steven Wright, Mr Justice Mellor gave a US-based group of cryptography activists permission to plead that 50 documents purporting to show the development of bitcoin are forgeries. He rejected an argument from Dr Craig Wright, who claims to be bitcoin inventor 'Satoshi Nakamoto', that the late amendment would derail the ... (full story)