Case of man who falsely claimed to be Bitcoin inventor referred to prosecutors

theguardian.com

4 points·seanhunter··2 comments

Original title is "Case of man who falsely claimed to be bitcoin inventor referred to CPS" CPS being the Crown Prosecution Service[1] , which is the public prosecutor here in the UK. I thought that might be jargon non-British folks may not know.

Gist of the story is having found that Craig Wright[2] is not Satoshi Nakamoto, the judge has said

“In these circumstances … I have no doubt that I should refer the relevant papers in this case to the CPS for consideration of whether a prosecution should be commenced against Dr Wright for his wholescale perjury and forgery of documents and/or whether a warrant for his arrest should be issued and/or whether his extradition should be sought from wherever he now is."

[1] https://www.cps.gov.uk/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Steven_Wright

This fraud, CW, has spend years in derailing the lives of Bitcoin developers, often low or unpaid volunteers, all to get his hands on a big sack of money.

After all, if he really is Satoshi, he could use courts to claim early coins that are in Satoshi’s wallets, are his.

The Bitcoin code would have to be changed to free up these stuck coins. He misses the point that all the people who use bitcoin would also have to install and run that code. That would never have happened anyways. But this verdict is nice.

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