Australian computer scientist Dr Craig Wright, who for years had claimed to be the inventor of bitcoin, was forced to update the homepage of his personal website with a legal notice

The legal problems continue to mount for Australian computer scientist Dr Craig Wright, who for years had claimed to be the inventor of bitcoin.

Australian computer scientist Dr Craig Wright, who had long claimed to be the inventor of bitcoin, has been ordered by a High Court judge to display a legal notice on his personal website for six months, stating that he is not Satoshi Nakamoto.

The notice, which was also ordered to be displayed on Wright's X account and the Slack channels where he communicates with his supporters, reads:

“On 20 May 2024, Dr Craig Steven Wright was found by the High Court of England and Wales to have been dishonest in his claims to have been the person behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto (the creator of Bitcoin).

“The Court found that Dr Wright “lied to the Court extensively and repeatedly” in his evidence and that he attempted to create a false narrative by forging documents “on a grand scale” and presenting them in evidence. Overall, “all his lies and forged documents were in support of his biggest lie: his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto,” the notice states.”

The order comes after Justice Mellor ruled in March that Wright was not Satoshi Nakamoto and that he would give his full reasons for his decision at a later date.

In May, Mr Justice Mellor issued a damning written judgment against the self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor, stating that he had lied “extensively and repeatedly” and forged documents “on a grand scale” to support his false claim that he was the inventor of bitcoin.

Wright had claimed in a May 2016 blog post that he was Satoshi Nakもと – the pseudonym used by the person (or persons) who developed bitcoin.

Nakamoto carried out the initial research underlying bitcoin and apparently ended his involvement in the digital currency in 2011.

In his 2016 blog post, Wright provided a cryptographic signature that’s among those known to have been used by Nakamoto.

But many in the crypto community were skeptical of Wright’s claim, in part because he has not moved any of the early bitcoin presumed to have been mined by Satoshi.

Beginning in May 2019, Wright began using English libel law to sue people who denied he was the inventor of bitcoin and who called him a fraud.

A court case in London began on 5 February 2024 after the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) took Dr Wright to court to stop him suing bitcoin developers.

COPA – whose members include Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's payments firm Block, said it had brought the lawsuit to preserve the open-source nature of bitcoin. The alliance asked for a ruling that Dr Wright was not Satoshi.

COPA had accused Wright of repeatedly forging documents to substantiate his claim, including during the trial itself, which Wright denied when he gave evidence.

Coindesk is now reporting that on Tuesday, Mr Justice Mellor issued his final judgment in the case and is referring Wright – as well as his colleague nChain co-founder Stefan Matthews, to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to be considered for perjury charges.

On his social media channels, Wright has previously indicated he would appeal against the damning rule from Mr Justice Mellor.

In Mellor’s final judgment however, the UK High Court judge said that Wright has made “no application for permission to appeal” despite what he has said on social media.

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