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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Lucie LEQUIER

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Bitcoin not invented by computer scientist wright court - You Need To See This

Craig Wright has claimed since 2016 to be bitcoin's purported creator "Satoshi Nakamoto" (Credit: AFP)

Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is not "Satoshi Nakamoto", the pseudonym used by the creator of the cryptocurrency bitcoin when it launched in 2008, a UK court ruled Thursday.

The decision follows a trial in London's High Court after the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a nonprofit organisation set up to keep cryptocurrency technology free from patents, sued Wright.

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