Australian Bitcoin ‘creator’ files UK lawsuit to retrieve $5.6B cryptocurrency fortune
Another day, another person claiming they’ve created Bitcoin. Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, has launched a $5.6 billion lawsuit in a London high court to retrieve 111,000 Bitcoins, claiming that he’s the inventor of the cryptocurrency.
Wright has filed the case against 16 developers who were
behind crypto networks Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV), Bitcoin Core (BTC),
Bitcoin Cash, (BCH), and Bitcoin Cash ABC (ABC). A report from Reuters noted
that these networks have wallet addresses in the US, Europe, Japan, Australia,
and New Zealand.
Several defendants dismissed the case saying it’s “bogus,”
and Wright hasn’t proven that he indeed created one of the world’s most popular
cryptocurrencies.
Last month, Wright also filed a case against crypto site
Bitcoin.org’s publisher Corba for alleged copyright infringement.
Over the years, Wright has claimed several times that he is
indeed Satoshi Nakamoto, the author of the original 2008 whitepaper detailing
the workings of Bitcoin. But has since failed to prove it substantially. He
also claims that in February 2020, his home network was hacked and he’s lost
access to encrypted keys to his Bitcoin wallet.
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