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High Court rules that self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator is not ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’

By Maria Ward-Brennan The London High Court has decided that Craig Wright is not the founder of the world’s first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, following a unique trial. Australian computer scientist Dr Craig Wright has long claimed to be behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, the name used by the person who authored the Bitcoin White Paper. Over the last five weeks, the High Court has heard two cases involving the identity issue. The first was Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a non-profit set up to keep cryptocurrency technology free from patents, which sued Wright over his claim that he is the…