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“Lied extensively and repeatedly”: Craig Wright slammed for High Court evidence in bitcoin trial
Craig Wright, the controversial crypto entrepreneur, lost an attempt to prove he was the inventor of bitcoin in the High Court when Mr Justice Mellor made his ruling at the end of a five-week trial in March. Wright has long claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the author of the bitcoin white paper and inventor of the famed cryptocurrency. In a written judgment handed down today to accompany the March verdict, Mr Justice Mellor rules that Wright “engaged in the deliberate production of false document to support false claims and use the Courts as a vehicle for fraud.” In just the second paragraph of the Judge’s ... (full story)