Craig Wright’s bid to appeal a High Court decision that ruled he is not Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, was denied by the UK Court of Appeal.
According to the UK Court of Appeal, Craig Wright’s appeal grounds comprised “multiple falsehoods,” including reliance on some “fictitious authorities.”
On November 29, Hodlonaut, a Bitcoin BTC$97,098 influencer who has written extensively about Wright’s “Faketoshi” story, said on X that Wright’s request for permission to appeal had been “brutally denied.”
The court claimed that Wright gave fabricated justifications for his identity as Nakamoto, including ones that might have been produced by artificial intelligence.
The long-running tale of Wright’s several court battles to establish his claim that he invented Bitcoin comes to a close with the most recent court ruling.
The court says it seems that Wright’s “falsehoods” are “AI-generated hallucinations.”
According to the UK Court of Appeal’s most recent verdict, Wright’s appeal grounds comprised “multiple falsehoods,” including reliance on certain “fictitious authorities.”
The court highlighted Anderson v. the Queen [2013] UKPC 2 as one example, stating that the hallucinations “appear to be AI-generated.”
“The appeals have no chance of success whatsoever, and there is no other reason to hear them,” the court said, adding that it was not believable on its face and even less so in light of the judge’s conclusions regarding Dr. Wright’s trustworthiness.
Eight years of the story of “Faketoshi,”
Craig Wright is an Australian computer scientist and entrepreneur who was born in 1970. Wright has publicly asserted that he is Nakamoto, the man behind Bitcoin, since at least 2016.
The crypto community has questioned Wright’s assertions, with several well-known individuals, such as Hodlonaut, labeling him a “fraud” and a “scammer.” However, Wright—also known as “Faketoshi” in Bitcoin’s online forums—did not stop there.
He has brought numerous libel cases against Hodlonaut, podcaster Peter McCormack, Adam Back, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, and countless others. In several of these situations, Wright lost or was fired.
In May, the UK High Court of Justice’s Judge James Mellor declared that Wright was not Nakamoto. The decision was made in a case against Wright filed by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a group of companies that charged Wright with forging documents to support his identity as Nakamoto.
Investigators and journalists worldwide have been working to deanonymize Nakamoto’s identity since it was established that Wright was not the person who created Bitcoin.
An HBO documentary from October implied that Peter Todd, a Canadian Bitcoin core engineer, was the cryptocurrency’s covert founder. Even though Todd later denied being Nakamoto, the discovery caused skepticism among many in the community.
