A judge has ruled definitively that Craig Wright is not the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, dealing a blow to his claims of ownership over the currency’s intellectual property.
In a landmark ruling in the United Kingdom by Judge James Mellor on March 14, 2024, the court dismissed Australian computer scientist Craig Wright’s near decade-old claim of being Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin (BTC).
The ruling came after a protracted legal battle between Wright and the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a coalition of prominent cryptocurrency companies seeking to prevent Wright from asserting his purported ownership over the digital currency’s core intellectual property (IP).
COPA brought its case against Wright in 2023, alleging that he had repeatedly engaged in widespread document forgery to support his claims of being Nakamoto.
