This seems like the modern equivalent of being made to stand in front of a store, wearing a sandwich board saying “I shoplifted from here”.
Which is great. A good public shaming is probably more of a deterrent than nebulous financial penalties or unlikely jail time. No one wants to be humiliated for their shenanigans.
He has also been referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for perjury and forgery: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/faketoshi-referred-to-cps-...
Full judgement: https://assets.caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2024/...
Pretty obvious that whoever Satoshi is went to great lengths to be anonymous… anyone making a big effort to convince people they are Satoshi is definitely not Satoshi.
How humiliating. But the punishment fits the crime in this case.
It's also interesting that UK courts can compel speech like this. Would the same remedy be available to US courts?
Many of the responses on that tweet are people saying “the courts are corrupt, he’s obviously Satoshi!” Absolutely insane what people will believe when they’re committed to it.
> Dr Wright has been ordered not to commence any legal proceedings based on his false claims (by claim or counterclaim) or procure any other person to do so.
I wonder what would happen if he do it in other jurisdiction. .. Does it count as a contempt of court?
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Some more discussion on:
Self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor referred to UK prosecutors for alleged perjury
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40975209
Craig Wright's claim of inventing Bitcoin may get him arrested for perjury
It is a thing of beauty.
There’s nothing quite like seeing an aggressive blowhard bullshitter get a proper telling off.
What led the court to create this judgment?
This reminds me of the kerfuffle about the invention of e-mail:
> Ayyadurai is notable for his widely disputed claim of being the "inventor of email".[73] His claim is based on an electronic mail software called EMAIL, an implementation of interoffice email system, which he wrote as a 14-year-old student at Livingston High School, New Jersey in 1979.[15][74][note 1] Initial reports that repeated Ayyadurai's assertion—from organizations such as The Washington Post and the Smithsonian Institution—were followed by public retractions.[15][75] These corrections were triggered by objections from historians and ARPANET pioneers who cited the fact the history of email dated back to the early 1970s.[12] Ayyadurai started a campaign in 2011 in which he rebranded himself as the "Inventor of Email"; according to a paper published in Information & Culture, he "provoked a dramatic succession of exaggerated claims, credulous reporters, retractions, and accusations that a cabal of industry insiders and corrupt Wikipedia editors are colluding to hide the truth."[76]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai#EMAIL_inventio...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email