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Evening Standard
Technology
Danny Halpin

Man behind false Bitcoin founder claim given order to stop further legal action

Dr Craig Wright (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Archive)

Computer scientist Dr Craig Wright is to be given a court order stopping him from bringing future legal action after using the courts to “terrorise his perceived enemies”, the High Court has heard.

The Australian began claiming he was Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym attributed to the person widely credited with establishing Bitcoin, in 2016 and asserted intellectual property rights over the cryptocurrency.

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