{"id":16082,"date":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/craig-wrights-libel-lawsuit-against-roger-ver-thrown-out-of-uk-court\/"},"modified":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T00:00:00","slug":"craig-wrights-libel-lawsuit-against-roger-ver-thrown-out-of-uk-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/craig-wrights-libel-lawsuit-against-roger-ver-thrown-out-of-uk-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Wright\u2019s Libel Lawsuit Against Roger Ver Thrown Out of UK Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
Controversial Australian computer scientist and self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin Craig Wright<\/strong> has suffered a blow to his ego after losing<\/a><\/strong> his case against former community partner Roger Ver<\/a><\/strong>. Wright had taken Ver to a UK court after Ver publicly called him a fraud for claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin. <\/p>\n Ver, who was visiting the UK back in early April created a YouTube video (now redacted) in which Ver disagreed with Wright\u2019 claim on inventing Bitcoin. In May, Ver took the dispute further and called Wright a Fraud on twitter<\/a><\/strong> telling him to sue him for his comments.<\/p>\n Wright did not hesitate. Wright filed several lawsuits against other crypto luminaries as well including podcaster Peter McCormack<\/a><\/strong> and Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin<\/strong>. To these claims, Wright alleged that the detractors were damaging his reputation<\/strong>. In the Wright v Ver case, the evidence provided in court by Wright\u2019s lawyer Adam Wolanski did not satisfy High Court Judge Sir Matthew Nicklin who said that it wasn\u2019t sufficient enough to prove \u201cthe global reputation [Wright] enjoys and, more particularly, the extent to which it has been damaged.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Further, Judge Nicklin stated that the case was inappropriately filed as Ver was not a resident of the UK and neither was he one at the time of the alleged action.<\/p>\n