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Craig Wright, the man who fraudulently claimed to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, received a one year in prison for being in contempt of court. Craig Wright Handed Court Loss Amid Satoshi Nakamoto Claims According to reports, Wright was officially sentenced to one year in prison with a suspensi...

Craig Wright, who has repeatedly and falsely claimed to be Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, was handed a one-year suspended sentence in the United Kingdom for five counts of contempt of court. The computer scientist was also fined £145,000, approximately $180,000 for his actions. Wr...

A man who claims to be the creator of Bitcoin ( BTC ) has been declared in contempt of court in the UK. Australian computer scientist Craig Wright has been handed a one-year sentence, suspended for two years, for filing a $1.2 trillion lawsuit against the payments firm Block. The judge says Wright v...

Craig Wright, an Aussie native who’s been loudly claiming he’s the mastermind behind Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, was handed a 12-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, by a U.K. court for contempt. This decision came down after Wright reportedly ignored a court order that barred him from pushi...

Craig Wright, who for years claimed to be Bitcoin’s creator, was found guilty of contempt and sentenced to 12 months in prison.

Craig Wright, the computer scientist who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the elusive creator of Bitcoin, was sentenced on Thursday to one year in prison by a UK judge for contempt of court. This decision, issued by Justice James Edward Mellor, follows a thorough analysis of Wright’s conduct, which th...

Australian computer scientist Craig Wright, who has been lying about being the founder of Bitcoin, received a one-year prison sentence. The high court in London found him in contempt of court for his unceasing lawsuits over his unfounded claims. Wright was sentenced on five counts of contempt of cou...

A UK court ruled in March that Craig Wright was not Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, but he continued to file lawsuits “based on asserted intellectual property rights.“

Craig Wright, a computer scientist who fraudulently claimed to be the founder of Bitcoin was found to be in contempt of court by a London judge for breaching a series of court orders after he lost a critical lawsuit. In 2021, the nonprofit cryptocurrency group Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (CO...

Craig Wright, who falsely claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of bitcoin, is in court again. This time, the Crypto Open Patent Alliances is arguing Wright's attempt to sue for 900 million pounds ($1.1 billion) over intellectual property rights related to the Bitcoin system in Oc...