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Published on July 16, 2024 11:14 GMT+00:00edited on July 16, 2024 11:19 GMT+00:00

Self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright was reportedly referred to U.K. prosecutors for alleged perjury after a judge found he lied “extensively and repeatedly” about his claim.

Australian computer scientist Craig Wright who claimed to have invented Bitcoin (BTC) was referred to British prosecutors for alleged perjury by a judge at London’s High Court, Reuters has learned. The report says the judge found that Wright had lied “extensively and repeatedly” to support his false claims of creating the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.

Wright has long asserted that he authored the 2008 whitepaper under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. However, in March, Judge James Mellor ruled that the evidence proving Wright was not Satoshi was “overwhelming,” after the Crypto Open …