Reuters: ‘Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor is not Satoshi Nakamoto, UK judge rules’
“An Australian computer scientist who claims he invented bitcoin is not “Satoshi Nakamoto”, the pseudonymous inventor of the cryptocurrency, a judge at London’s High Court ruled on Thursday.
Craig Wright has long claimed to have been the author of a 2008 white paper, the foundational text of bitcoin, published under the pseudonym.
The Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) took Wright to court to stop him suing bitcoin developers, asking for a ruling that Wright was not Satoshi.
Judge James Mellor said on Thursday that Wright was not Satoshi and that he would give his full reasons for his decision at a later date.
COPA – whose members include Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s payments firm Block (SQ.N), opens new tab – previously said it had brought the lawsuit to preserve the open-source nature of bitcoin.
After Mellor announced his decision on Thursday, Dorsey posted a quote from the judge and a single letter: ‘W’.”