{"id":13690,"date":"2019-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/2019\/04\/19\/self-proclaimed-creator-of-bitcoin-craig-wright-takes-critics-to-court-for-calling-him-a-fraud\/"},"modified":"2019-04-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T00:00:00","slug":"self-proclaimed-creator-of-bitcoin-craig-wright-takes-critics-to-court-for-calling-him-a-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/self-proclaimed-creator-of-bitcoin-craig-wright-takes-critics-to-court-for-calling-him-a-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Proclaimed Creator of Bitcoin Craig Wright Takes Critics to Court for Calling Him a Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Controversial tech entrepreneur and Bitcoin developer Craig Wright is fed up of defending his claim to be the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin \u2013 the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto \u2013 on social media and instead has resolved to take the debate to court. This week, the billionaire supporter of Bitcoin Satoshi\u2019s Vision (BSV) made good of his threat<\/strong> to popular podcaster crypto podcaster Peter McCormack of suing him if he does not cease defaming Wright on Twitter.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Wright sent cease and desist letters to McCormack and Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin<\/a>. Buterin has not yet been sued but there is a high probability that he will.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"justice\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI have said for a long time: \u2018Challenge the science, not personalities.\u2019 But that has been apparently impossible, so I\u2019ve reluctantly had to take this step so that we can move on a \u2018get back to the science,\u2019 where I happily and openly debate ideas and concepts.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

His idea of engaging in a civilized debate can only be found in the corridors of justice. Court files reveal that he is filing for damages of close to $130,000 (100,000 pounds) in the High Court of Justice, Queen\u2019s Bench Division in the UK.<\/p>\n

Despite having been called a \u201cfake\u201d and a \u201cfraud\u201d by several individuals on Twitter and other social networks, he has opted to target a few individuals to take to court. The three that will be bearing his brunt are McCormack, Buterin and pseudonymous creator of the Lighting Torch experiment LNTrustChain @Hodlonaut. Wright in collaboration with CoinGeek founder Calvin Ayre, issued a doxing<\/strong> <\/a>bounty on Hodlonaut for $5,000, a price that is yet to be claimed.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting that Wright has not chosen to bring charges against Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao who, over the past few days, has been extremely vocal about the matter, also calling Wright a fraud on Twitter. Responding to the media on his choice to sue a few individuals and specifically McCormack and Buterin, he said that:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am mainly seeking people who have a perceived authority within the cryptocurrency industry, so Vitalik and Peter McCormack. They have been sent the opening letter outlining the case already.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Controversial tech entrepreneur and Bitcoin developer Craig Wright is fed up of defending his claim to be the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin \u2013 the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto \u2013 on social media and instead has resolved to take the debate to court. This week, the billionaire supporter of Bitcoin Satoshi\u2019s Vision (BSV) made good of his … <\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,74],"tags":[4602,4910],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}