The United Kingdom Court of Appeal has denied Craig Wright’s appeal of a High Court ruling that determined he is not Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.
On November 29, Hodlonaut, a Bitcoin influencer who has extensively covered Wright’s “Faketoshi” saga, reported on X that Wright’s application for permission to appeal has been “brutally denied.”
The court found that Wright presented fraudulent arguments for his identity as Nakamoto, including those suspected to have been generated using artificial intelligence.
The most recent court decision concludes the protracted narrative of Wright’s numerous legal disputes in his pursuit of evidence that he invented Bitcoin.
Wright’s “falsehoods” seem to be “AI-generated hallucinations.”
Wright’s appeal grounds were alleged to contain “multiple falsehoods,” including reliance on certain “fictitious authorities,” by the UK Court of Appeal in its most recent ruling.
The court cited Anderson v the Queen [2013] UKPC 2 as an example of a case that “appears to be AI-generated hallucinations.”
“It is not credible on its face, and even less so given the judge’s findings as to Dr. Wright’s credibility,” the court stated, adding, “The appeals have no prospect of success whatever, and there is no other reason to hear them.”
The “Faketoshi” saga spans eight years
Wright, an Australian industrialist and computer scientist, was born in 1970. Wright has been openly asserting that he is the creator of Bitcoin since at least 2016, claiming to be Nakamoto.
Some prominent figures in the crypto community, such as Hodlonaut, have referred to Wright as a “scammer” and a “fraud.” The crypto community has questioned Wright’s claims. However, Wright, known as “Faketoshi” on the Bitcoin internet forums, did not conclude his efforts there.
Over the years, he has filed numerous libel lawsuits against various individuals, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Adam Back, podcaster Peter McCormack, and others. Wright suffered numerous losses or dismissals as a result of these cases.
Judge James Mellor of the UK High Court of Justice determined in May that Wright was not Nakamoto. The judgment was rendered in a case brought against Wright by the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a coalition of firms that accused him of forgery to fabricate evidence to support his claim of being Nakamoto.
Investigators and journalists worldwide have been working to deanonymize Nakamoto’s identity, as Wright has been disproven as the creator of Bitcoin.
In October, an HBO documentary proposed that Canadian Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd was the covert creator of Bitcoin. Subsequently, Todd himself declared that he was not Nakamoto; however, numerous community members were skeptical of the information.