Craig Wright, the Australian computer scientist who spent years claiming to have created Bitcoin, has been forced by a judge to say he is actually not Satoshi Nakamoto. 

UK Judge James Mellor ordered Wright to post on his website, Slack and on X that he is not the founder of bitcoin, according to a court document filed on Tuesday.

The Crypto Open Patent Alliance or COPA, sued Wright in April 2021 in an effort to stop him from asserting copyright claims over the Bitcoin whitepaper and database. COPA had asked for Wright to fess up publicly on those three platforms.

"I do not consider a notice on his website on its own to be adequate, since his primary mode of communication to those interested appears to be via X / Twitter or via his Slack channels. So I will order the publication …