Craig Wright, also known as Aoben Cong, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison with a two-year suspended sentence
The Australian scientist Craig Wright, who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, has been found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to 12 months in prison, suspended for two years. It is reported that he appeared via video link and refused to disclose his specific location but indicated that he would appeal. Previously, Wright initiated a legal lawsuit involving intellectual property rights worth 900 billion pounds.
In March this year, a British judge ruled that Wright was not Satoshi Nakamoto. The Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA) filed its first lawsuit against Wright in April in an attempt to stop him from claiming copyright over the Bitcoin white paper and database. During the trial, two key figures testified including Adam Back, a pioneer of the Bitcoin proof-of-work consensus system.
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