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.“
Australian national Craig Wright, who for years falsely claimed to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, has been given a one-year suspended sentence in the United Kingdom for contempt of court.
In a Dec. 19 hearing, Judge James Mellor handed down a sentence to Wright for filing lawsuits against Bitcoin (BTC) developers in violation of a court order. Wright faces 12 months in jail, suspended for two years, after five counts of contempt of court and a £145,000 fine — roughly $180,000 at the time of publication.
The contempt ruling was part of a case by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), which filed a complaint against Wright over breaching a July court order to stop filing lawsuits against firms on the basis he was Satoshi. A UK court said in March that Wright was not the pseudonymous Bitcoin creator, and he essentially admitted it on his website in July after the ruling.
