A judge at London’s High Court ruled Monday (May 20) that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright lied and forged documents to support his false claim of being the inventor of bitcoin.
Judge James Mellor ruled in March that the evidence Wright was not the pseudonymous “Satoshi Nakamoto” and gave his reasons for this conclusion Monday, Reuters reported Monday.
The judge said that Wright had lied and forged documents to support his claim to be the inventor and that his lawsuits against developers and his views about bitcoin also went against his claims, according to the report.
The case in which this decision was rendered was brought by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) and was aimed at stopping Wright from suing bitcoin developers, the report said.
In a Monday blog post that following the rule, COPA wrote that the judgment “forensically demolishes Wright’s fraudulent claims.”
“This decision is a watershed moment for the open-source community and even more importantly, a definitive win for the truth,” a COPA…
