Nearly a decade after Craig Wright began terrorizing the Bitcoin (BTC) community with claims that he was Satoshi Nakamoto, a British court has delivered a verdict: Wright is not Satoshi.
The ruling came this month from Justice James Mellor of England’s High Court of Justice in a civil case spearheaded by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA). His decision stated Wright “lied to the court extensively and repeatedly” while engaging “in forgery on a grand scale” to prove he was Satoshi.
Mellor excoriated Wright at length in his scathing judgment, writing, in part:
Dr. Wright presents himself as an extremely clever person. However, in my judgment, he is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is. In both his written evidence and in days of oral evidence under cross-examination, I am entirely satisfied that Dr Wright lied to the Court extensively and repeatedly. Most of his lies related to the documents he had forged which purported to support his claim. All his lies and forged documents were in support of his biggest lie: his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
While hardcore Bitcoiners haven’t thought much about Wright since he began making his claims in 2015, the mainstream media swiftly gave him the popular platform he needed to bully and damage people, companies, and Bitcoin’s image.
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However, thanks to the court’s decision, the industry can uphold the narrative of Bitcoin’s “immaculate conception” without lingering doubt planted by Wright — with assistance, in part, from the likes of Gizmodo, Wired, BBC, The Economist, The Financial Times, GQ, and other publications. Too many in the media failed to simply look at the facts, including the fact that cryptographic data is easily verified.
Justice James Mellor excoriated Craig Wright at length in his judgment.
Even in 2019, some in the media had yet to receive the memo about Wright. When Wright filed a U.S. copyright claim for the Bitcoin white paper in April 2019, the Financial Times quoted a Wright spokesman who called it “the first government agency recognition of Craig…
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