“An Australian computer scientist who claimed he invented bitcoin faces a criminal investigation in Britain for alleged perjury after he was found to have repeatedly lied and forged documents to support his false claim. Judge James Mellor ruled in March that the evidence Wright was not Satoshi was “overwhelming”, saying in a written judgment...

“Craig Wright, who claimed to be Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto, was referred to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to be considered for perjury charges for evidence he presented in a case brought by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance. COPA, a non-profit organization representing bitcoin developers, filed suit against Wright in...

“An Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to have invented Bitcoin has been referred to UK prosecutors for alleged perjury. A judge at London’s High Court found Dr Craig Wright lied “extensively and repeatedly” to support his claim that he was “Satoshi Nakamoto”, the pseudonym attributed to the person widely...

“An Australian computer scientist who was found by a High Court judge in London to have falsely claimed to have invented bitcoin could face a criminal investigation for alleged perjury. Craig Wright, 53, had publicly claimed to be the true figure behind Satoshi Nakamoto, the author of the 2008 academic...

“The case of Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who falsely claimed to be the creator of bitcoin, has been referred to the Crown Prosecution Service over a potential prosecution for perjury and forgery. In March, Wright lost a legal battle with a coalition of cryptocurrency businesses who had pre-emptively...