Craig Wright sues a podcaster for saying Craight Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto

[Hydrogen]

The Craig Wright crypto legal fight is heating up.

The controversial digital-asset entrepreneur filed a claim in a British court on Wednesday, accusing podcaster Peter McCormack of writing a libelous series of tweets about him in March and April over Wright’s claim that he developed Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.

The lawsuit, seeking damages of 100,000 pounds ($129,890), was filed in the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division. It also seeks an injunction to prevent McCormack from publishing similar comments in the future.

McCormack, who’s been previously warned by letter, announced that he’s been served earlier today on Twitter. He did not immediately return a request for comment.

Wright has also warned Vitalik Buterin, a co-founder of the cryptocurrency Ethereum, that he’ll be sued for defamatory comments, and also has accused anonymous Twitter user Hodlonaut of defamation.

Bitcoin SV tumbles after Binance delisting
In response to Wright’s warnings, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, delisted Bitcoin SV, a coin Wright supports, earlier this week. After plummeting sharply, the coin’s value has risen 5 percent in the last 24 hours, according to CoinMarketCap.com.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-18/self-described-bitcoin-creator-wright-sues-a-podcaster-for-libel

....

There have been many posts on this forum where people discussed governments and banks conspiring to kill bitcoin, ICOs and crypto. Perhaps in this news story, we are witnessing the reality of how this topic plays out in the real world. One interpretation says banks and governments prefer to seize control over bitcoin, ICOs and crypto utilizing charlatans and shills like Craig Wright who an uinformed public might be fooled into believing is the real Satoshi Nakamoto.

Here we have Craig Wright suing Peter McCormack for "defamation" as McCormack said Craig Wright isn't Satoshi on a pocast. In addition Craig Wright is attempting to file a gag order (see: injunction) against McCormack to prevent him from discussing this topic in the future. Gag orders and injunctions are extremely common in europe where they're utilized to essentially strip freedom of speech from citizens.

[Ailmand]

One of the main reasons why Bitcoin SV is removed by Binance CEO. Craig Wright as we know claims that he is satoshi, however cannot prove it's claim. He has even started attacking people on twitter who keeps on saying he is not satoshi, I mean it is pointless, why would you even be butt-hurt if you haven't even proved that you are satoshi. Filing a case for because of it is getting way too far.

[Naida_BR]

I think that the whole forum is fed up with posts about Craig Wright.
He is just claiming that he is Satoshi but he can't prove it so why we keep posting news about him over and over again?
The best punishment for him will be that Bitcoin SV is going to be delisted from everywhere as it has already been done in Binance Exchange.
Just stop giving him attention and everything is going to be better.

[Unblock_news]

It's true, the tweet from Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao comes as Craig Wright is being targeted with allegations of fraud. Check this article for more info: https://www.unblock.news/popular/zhao-craig-wright-is-not-satoshi-could-delist-bsv-from-binance

[Bitinity]

The drama continues, as Haunebu says that we should ignore any news or drama from CSW. Lets he do everything he wants but lets ignore it because the more we share about what he do the more attention he will get. That's what he wants and he will continue the drama but if no media cares about what he do then he may stop what he has started since few years back.

[Beerwizzard]

Marasmus is only getting stronger with time. Everyone is claiming that he is a real Satoshi in order to get some more place in media space and their arguments sound even more retarded each time.
Just imagine how that humble guy, that created Bitcoin and showed everyone the power of blockchain came back after long years of staying in the shadow and the first thing he is doing is throwing shit in everyone. Sounds legit!

[Odessit_ya]

At the moment, the crypto-legal conflict Craig Wright looks very funny, without providing real evidence of Satoshi’s identity.

[BrewMaster]

nowadays we keep reading how Craig Wright is desperately thrashing in the waters while being drowned and keeps on suing different people because they make the most obvious statement: "Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto and instead he is a scammer".
but i am mostly wondering what the results of these legal actions are? i mean are the courts finding these people making such obvious statements guilty?!!!

and most importantly why has nobody yet sued Craig Wright for stealing Satoshi Nakamoto's identity yet?

[alisafidel58]

CW is suing everyone that is against him. He is making himself the laughing stock of the century. Everybody knows that he is not the real Satoshi and yet he still insists on his claims. When will this guy ever learn and stop all these nonsense claims and suing people for telling the truth?

[alyssa85]

CW is suing everyone that is against him. He is making himself the laughing stock of the century. Everybody knows that he is not the real Satoshi and yet he still insists on his claims. When will this guy ever learn and stop all these nonsense claims and suing people for telling the truth?

This is a risky move on the part of Craig Wright. What if the court orders him to prove he is Satoshi, and he can't? That pretty much nails his claims that he is satoshi once and for all.

[Oceat]

CW is really hungry for the attention that he wants that most people who disagree with his false claim will taste a lawsuit against him.

This is starting to get dirty and i feel like all of he's doing will turn against on him one day.

We just have to ignore him to stop the fire he is making or else it will spread around.

[Vishnu.Reang]

One of the main reasons why Bitcoin SV is removed by Binance CEO. Craig Wright as we know claims that he is satoshi, however cannot prove it's claim. He has even started attacking people on twitter who keeps on saying he is not satoshi, I mean it is pointless, why would you even be butt-hurt if you haven't even proved that you are satoshi. Filing a case for because of it is getting way too far.

He has lost the respect of the crypto users and by now his reputation is permanently tarnished. Even if he proves that he has something to do with Satoshi (which looks highly unlikely), I don't think that he'll be able to clear his name. Anyway, I have a feeling that we should ignore this loser. Why we should give him any publicity?

[Slow death]

Who cares? Why is everyone diverting unnecessary attention towards this dumbass anyway? He wants to shut everyone up who don't agree with his stupid claims.

The best solution in this case is to simply ignore him and not provide him the attention that he is desperate for. Truly embarrassing.

Bitcoin SV (  Rank 14 )

Market Cap: $1 027 107 917 USD

Who buys this altcoin? this is the problem of the crypto world and people like faketoshi have gained a lot of attention because he knows he has a group of people that he can manipulate easily. and this group of people are people who have hate bitcoin because of the way that bitcoin is going, something that should not happen, the community should be united.

[okala]

The only question for Craig is that if he is truly santoshi why the creation of bitcoin SV and have he answered to the fraud allegations against him before sueing another person for deformation of character. It evidence the delisting of his bitcoin sv from binance and other exchanges will serve him a great warning against future action against bitcoin.

[Kemarit]

~ snip ~

He has lost the respect of the crypto users and by now his reputation is permanently tarnished. Even if he proves that he has something to do with Satoshi (which looks highly unlikely), I don't think that he'll be able to clear his name. Anyway, I have a feeling that we should ignore this loser. Why we should give him any publicity?

His reputation is already tarnished years ago when he claim to be Satoshi but can't proved it. And the more he goes out in the public and invest things up, the more people hate him and debunked all his fake claims. He doesn't have to clear his name, his stunts lately really show what personality Craig has. Yes, I agree that we should ignore this fraud. I'm sure that he didn't have any basis whatsoever about his libel or whatever you call it. His case will be thrown in the garbage, that's for sure as it has no merit at all.

[tomahawk9]

and most importantly why has nobody yet sued Craig Wright for stealing Satoshi Nakamoto's identity yet?

I'm no expert in law but, if you sue someone for identity theft, shouldn't the person who's identity was stolen be present in court (if the case makes it to court)? If so, how would Satoshi receive the court summon if no one even know who/where he is? I believe that's the reason why Craig keeps claiming he's Satoshi, because Craig knows that the real Satoshi Nakamoto won't throw away a lifetime of anonimity just to prove that Craig is lying.

Plus, do we even know if "Satoshi Nakamoto" is actually a real name and not a pseudonym? If it's the latter, then "Satoshi Nakamoto", for legal purposes, wouldn't fall under the 'Personally identifiable information' (PII) or legal identity, thus using that name (like Craig does) wouldn't qualify as 'identity theft'. I might be wrong, though.

[kryptqnick]

I don't like the guy, but who would have thought he'd try to sue people for disagreeing on the matter of him being Satoshi. I find this interesting, since the court will probably ask for stronger evidence supporting the claim that he is Satoshi (say, unlocking his bitcoins). I don't know what this guy is thinking.. and I hope he is not Satoshi after all. If he loses this case, less people will believe in him, and that's a good thing. I wonder if it can be the case that he sincerely believes that he's Satoshi, whereas he actually isn't.

[Crypdon]

It seems the creator of this bitcointalk forum is getting upset! Perhaps he should create a new coin in response and call it bitcoin CW vision

[alyssa85]

CW is really hungry for the attention that he wants that most people who disagree with his false claim will taste a lawsuit against him.

This is starting to get dirty and i feel like all of he's doing will turn against on him one day.

We just have to ignore him to stop the fire he is making or else it will spread around.

Why is he hungry for attention though? What does it gain him to get into all these fights?

[carlfebz2]

Who cares? Why is everyone diverting unnecessary attention towards this dumbass anyway? He wants to shut everyone up who don't agree with his stupid claims.

The best solution in this case is to simply ignore him and not provide him the attention that he is desperate for. Truly embarrassing.

Bitcoin SV (  Rank 14 )

Market Cap: $1 027 107 917 USD

Who buys this altcoin? this is the problem of the crypto world and people like faketoshi have gained a lot of attention because he knows he has a group of people that he can manipulate easily. and this group of people are people who have hate bitcoin because of the way that bitcoin is going, something that should not happen, the community should be united.

There are still people who do supports this coin no matter what happen to CW.The price didn't have much impact to go down as the issue rises.
CW is taking this thing too far. Suing out people which shouldn't really be sued out because it do opposes that he's the real satoshi? What an unbelievable mindset he do have.