Extremely slippery witness: Satoshi Nakamoto TOSH

[david44]

Rumours he is Sausago WongaMato are entirely baseless, industry insiders prefer Harrieto Charioto

Man who falsely claimed to be bitcoin creator sentenced for continuing to sue developers | Bitcoin | The Guardian

Man who falsely claimed to be bitcoin creator sentenced for continuing to sue developers


Craig Wright given one-year suspended sentence for breaching court order to stop suing bitcoin developers




Robert Booth UK technology editor
Thu 19 Dec 2024 18.12 GMT

An Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to be the creator of bitcoin has been given a one-year suspended prison sentence after the high court in London ruled he was in contempt because he would not stop suing people.




Mr Justice Mellor had already found that Craig Wright, 54, repeatedly lied about his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym used by the person or people who launched bitcoin – the cryptocurrency that was first mined in 2009 and recently soared in value to £79,000.

Wright had claimed intellectual property rights associated with bitcoin, but that was demolished when the high court found he lied about his role, deploying often clumsy forgeries “on a grand scale” and “technobabble”. The real Nakamoto is likely to be a billionaire because they are thought to own 1 million bitcoins.
Wright was then ordered to stop taking legal actions against bitcoin developers, but defied that court order in October when he brought suits against cryptocurrency developers amounting to more than £900bn in respect of his claimed intellectual property rights related to bitcoin.
He also repeated his claim that he was Nakamoto, said Jonathan Hough KC, counsel for the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (Copa), a non-profit group including cryptocurrency firms which brought the action against Wright.
On Thursday Wright was sentenced for five counts of contempt of court. Sentencing him to 12 months in jail, suspended for two years and to pay £145,000 in costs within a fortnight, the court also struck out his enormous claim.
Hough told the court that Wright’s legal threats had “terrorised” people, putting “developers and bloggers through … years of personal hell” and that the new claims were intended to “cause maximum possible distress”.
His latest legal actions were a “desperate publicity stunt to keep his cultish supporters engaged”, Hough said. He added that Wright had sought to resist by alleging judicial bias and had even claimed he was the victim of the British aristocracy because of the appearance of the word “Lord” in the court judgments against him. The judge found Wright’s contempt was proven “beyond reasonable doubt”.
Wright, who appeared by video link from somewhere in Asia – he refused to say where – said he would appeal. He had refused to abide by an order to attend in person during a hearing on Wednesday when he said that he could only do so if he was paid £240,000 to cover his costs and lost earnings.
The court room was packed with onlookers including a man in a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan: “This is just an elaborate fiction.”
In a high court judgment handed down in May, Mellor said that Wright presents himself as an extremely clever person, “however, in my judgment, he is not nearly as clever as he thinks he is”. He said he was an “extremely slippery witness”.
“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,” the judge said. “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.”

[39TG]

What a whacko. He would be better placed on a barstool in Thailand telling fellow drunks about his long career in the SAS .

[david44]

What a whacko. He would be better placed on a barstool in Thailand telling fellow drunks about his long career in the SAS .

Whack a blotto,he could be batter pissed on a brown stool in thighland selling his mellow trunks about Korea in sausages!

I was in SAS but not the force the airline

[PlanK]

Don't know why it took years to get to this conclusion.

If he was Satoshi he would have the keys to the Satoshi wallet, all he would have to do to prove it is sign a transaction from that wallet.
Quite simple. Why the court wasted time with this garbage is the true Satoshi mystery.

[Edmond]

If he was Satoshi he would have the keys to the Satoshi wallet, all he would have to do to prove it is sign a transaction from that wallet.

As of 2021, Nakamoto is estimated to own between 750,000 and 1,100,000 bitcoin. In November 2021, when bitcoin reached a value of over $68,000, his net worth would have been up to $73 billion, making him the 15th-richest person in the world at the time.


At 100k a pop now, that would mean a wealth of between..... giz a sec... 750,000,000,000 and 1,100,000,000,000.

750 billion to 1.1 trillion?


The problem is when he eventually goes to cash out, but the amount he's selling is worth more than all the money in the world.


The fooker.

[Edmond]

And that 10,000 BTC for 2 Papa John's pizzas guy.... yeah, that would be worth $1 Billion USD now.


Bet he tosses and turns at night.

[taxexile]

Sausago WongaMato

whatever happened to the old poof. i think his brexit obsession did for him. but i'm sure he checks in now and then, so if he's reading this i wish the miserable old pikey a merry xmas.

[david44]

tosses and turns at night.

The voice of experience

[TizMe]

I was in SAS but not the force the airline

I'm proficient in SAS, https://www.sas.com