Craig Wright’s Website Denies His Involvement in Bitcoin’s Creation

A legal notice has been published on Craig Wright’s personal website stating that he is not Satoshi Nakamoto.

In 2021, the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) initiated proceedings against the Australian businessman. The organization filed a lawsuit to prevent him from litigating against developers and other members of the crypto community, as well as claiming intellectual property rights over Bitcoin technology.

In March, British judge James Mellor ruled that Wright is not the creator of the first cryptocurrency or the author of the white paper.

“On 20 May 2024, the High Court of England and Wales found Dr Craig Steven Wright’s claims to be the person behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto (the creator of Bitcoin) to be dishonest,” reads the text posted on the entrepreneur’s page.

According to the statement, Wright “extensively and repeatedly lied to the court” in his testimony and “extensively” forged documents to present as evidence:

“By promoting his false claim of being Satoshi through numerous lawsuits, Dr Wright committed ‘the most serious abuse’ of the procedural rules of the courts of the UK, Norway, and the USA.”

Users on X noted that Wright’s publication of the court release on his page is not a personal admission of being a “pseudo-Satoshi.”

Wright has posted that the COURT found that he is not Satoshi. Wright is not personally saying that he is not Satoshi. There is a nuanced important distinction here.

(I do not support Faketoshi.)

— Anna Atlas (@AnnaAtlasBTC) July 16, 2024

However, the court ruling prohibits the businessman from initiating new proceedings based on “his false claims” or encouraging others to do so.

In April 2020, Wright himself withdrew a defamation lawsuit against Blockstream CEO Adam Back and paid his costs. A similar decision was made by the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto in the case against Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

Wright’s appeal in the defamation case against podcaster Peter McCormack was later dismissed by the court.

In May 2022, the businessman accused several crypto exchanges of trading “fake” Bitcoin. According to him, the only digital asset “that remains true to the original protocol” is Bitcoin SV.

Judge Mellor has referred Wright’s case documents to the UK prosecution for consideration of criminal charges of perjury and document forgery.