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Craig Wright, the Australian who has persistently asserted that he is Bitcoin’s creator Satoshi Nakamoto, has been referred to the Crown Prosecution Services (CPS) by British High Court Judge James Mellor for a potential perjury charge following a lawsuit initiated by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), according to new court documents.
Alleged Perjury Referral for So-Called Satoshi
On Tuesday, Mellor mandated the referral to CPS (the primary prosecutorial body of England and Wales) after determining that Wright was not the anonymous cryptocurrency founder in May.
I fully intend to appeal the court’s decision regarding the identity issue. I would like to express my gratitude to all my supporters for their steadfast encouragement and backing. In the meantime, I will continue to collaborate closely with the Teranode team to achieve…
— Dr Craig S Wright (@Dr_CSWright) May 20, 2024
“In promoting his false assertion of being Satoshi Nakamoto, Dr. Wright engaged in ‘a most serious abuse’ of the judicial processes in the U.K., Norway, and the U.S.A.,” Mellor stated. “If the circumstances of this case do not justify a referral, it is hard to imagine a case that would.”
The protracted legal battle commenced when the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a consortium of cryptocurrency organizations, filed a lawsuit against Wright in 2021 regarding his persistent claim of being the founder of Bitcoin – a notion that appears to contradict the decentralized nature of the cryptocurrency.
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Describing Wright’s claims as “brazen and elaborate,” Mellor’s ruling will legally inhibit any assertions of authorship that the businessman has promoted over the years.
“The Court determined that Dr. Wright ‘lied to the Court extensively and repeatedly’ in his testimony and that he sought to fabricate a false narrative by forging documents ‘on a grand scale’ and presenting them as evidence,” the disclaimer states in part. “Ultimately, ‘all his lies and forged documents were in support of his greatest deception: his assertion of being Satoshi Nakamoto.’
COPA Declares Craig Wright Ruling A Victory For Developers
The consequences of Mellor’s ruling further necessitate that Wright add a disclaimer on his website informing the public that he is not the enigmatic individual behind the Bitcoin White Paper, whose true identity remains unknown.
“This ruling is a victory for developers, for the entire open-source community, and for the truth,” a COPA representative remarked shortly after the ruling. “For over eight years, Dr. Wright and his financial supporters have misrepresented his identity as Satoshi Nakamoto and utilized that falsehood to intimidate and coerce developers within the Bitcoin community. That ends today with the court’s ruling that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto.”
Wright has also been instructed to post the required disclaimer to his X account, although at the time of publication, he had apparently not yet done so.
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