A UK court on Thursday issued a verdict that Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, is not “Satoshi Nakamoto,” a pseudonym used by the creator of Bitcoin when it first came out in 2008.
“Dr Wright is not the person who adopted or operated under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto… Dr. Wright is not the person who created the Bitcoin system,” said High Court judge James Mellor, adding the evidence was “overwhelming.”
The Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) is seeking to keep cryptocurrency technology outside the control of patents and launched the lawsuit over claims Wright made in 2016 when he said he was the mysterious creator of Bitcoin.
The lawsuit accused Wright of lying about his identity and falsifying documents put forward to try and verify his claims.
Japanese-American engineer Dorian Nakamoto was one of the first people suspected of being the creator of Bitcoin due to a Newsweek article on the subject. He denies being Satoshi Nakamoto.
Others insist that there must be multiple authors rather than a single developer of Bitcoin.
