Australian computer scientist and self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright is facing a contempt of court case over his lawsuit against BTC Core developers and Jack Dorsey’s Square. UK Judge James Mellor put Wright’s lawsuit on hold until the application is resolved on December 18.
Wright Faces Contempt Case For Bitcoin Core Lawsuit
On November 1, Craig Wright attended a court hearing regarding a contempt of court application for his £911 million lawsuit, worth $1.2 billion, against Bitcoin Core developers and Square Up European Ltd.
As a response, the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA) filed a contempt application form, arguing that Wright breached the injunction that resulted from the main Bitcoin authorship trial.
As reported by Bitcoinist, British High Court Judge James Mellor ruled against Wright’s claims of being Bitcoin’s creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, earlier this year. The Judge concluded that the Australian computer scientist had “extensively and repeatedly” lied in his written and oral evidence and forged documents on a grand scale to sustain his claims.
Consequentially, the court ordered Wright to admit he was not Satoshi Nakamoto and cease any further legal action related to his disproved authorship claims.
According to the court hearing transcription shared by BitMEX Research, the application form argues that Wright breached the Court’s previous ruling after threatening to bring Precluded Proceedings and eventually doing so against Bitcoin Core and Square.
COPA's Contempt of Court application form. Source: BitMEX Research on X.
The self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto filed a lawsuit on October 10, claiming that BTC Core developers and “all affiliated parties” have misrepresented BTC as the original Bitcoin.
Wright, representing himself in this lawsuit, argues that the Taproot and Segregated Witness (SegWit) upgrades “have caused confusion in the market and have compromised the vision of the original Bitcoin protocol.”
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