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.