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Vince Quill5 hours agoUnited Kingdom High Court freezes Craig Wright’s assetsThe judgment was issued to help podcaster Peter McCormack recover nearly $2 million in legal expenses from a defamation lawsuit filed by Wright.1224 Total views26 Total sharesListen to article 0:00NewsOwn this piece of crypto historyCollect this article as NFTJoin us on social networksThe High Court of the United Kingdom issued a World Freezing Order against computer scientist and businessman Craig Wright’s assets, legal documents filed on July 5 revealed.


Wright’s assets were frozen to help podcast host and entrepreneur Peter McCormack, sued by Wright for libel in 2019, recoup roughly 1.5 million British pounds ($1.9 million) in legal fees.


Cointelegraph reached out to McCormack for comment but was unable to obtain a response by the time of publication.The first page of the World Freezing Order against Craig Wright. Source: United Kingdom National ArchivesCraig Wright v. Peter McCormack


The legal battle between Wright and McCormack began with comments McCormack made against Wright in several tweets and a YouTube video, where McCormack accused the computer scientist and entrepreneur of fraudulently asserting he was Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin (BTC).


Following McCormack’s statements, Wright filed a lawsuit against the podcaster, claiming that McCormack defamed his character.


Related: Satoshi-era Bitcoin wallet wakes up after 14 years, sends 50 BTC to BinanceCourt rules Wright is not Satoshi


Wright began claiming he was the fabled Satoshi Nakamoto in 2016 and used this claim as the basis to file lawsuits against 13 Bitcoin Core developers. The Australian computer scientist argued that the developers violated his copyrights on the Bitcoin white paper and certain features of the decentralized protocol, like Bitcoin’s database.


The Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), an industry group comprised of several defendants listed in Wright’s lawsuit, provided at least 50 pieces of evidence, accusing Wright of forgery. In their closing arguments, attorneys for COPA stated, “He [Wright] has invented an entire biographical history, producing one tranche after another of forged documents to support it.”


After weighing the evidence, the court ruled that Wright was not Nakamoto, ending the intellectual property battle that could have had massive implications for the entire Bitcoin ecosystem.


Judge James Mellor’s landmark ruling conclusively proving that Wright’s claims of being the inventor of Bitcoin were false established the legal foundation absolving McCormack of defaming Wright’s character and the right to legal compensation.


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