Man behind false Bitcoin founder claim facing UK contempt case

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2024-12-18

London (PA Media/dpa) - A computer scientist who falsely claimed to be the founder of Bitcoin should be jailed for contempt of court after launching a legal claim for more than £900 billion ($1.1 trillion in breach of a court order, the High Court has been told. A judge found in March that Dr Craig Wright had "lied extensively" about whether he was Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym attributed to the person widely credited with establishing the cryp......

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