自称比特币创造者的澳大利亚计算机科学家被判藐视法庭

克雷格·赖特博士的主张和随后的诉讼在加密货币世界中引起了争议，比特币的去中心化精神直接反对他所寻求的垄断控制。

An Australian computer scientist who has repeatedly claimed to be Bitcoin's creator has been found in contempt of London's High Court on Thursday.

周四，伦敦高等法院发现一名多次声称自己是比特币创造者的澳大利亚计算机科学家藐视法庭。

Why It Matters

为什么它很重要

Dr. Craig Wright's claims and subsequent lawsuits have been controversial within the cryptocurrency world, where Bitcoin's decentralized ethos directly opposes the monopolistic control he has sought.

克雷格·赖特博士的主张和随后的诉讼在加密货币世界中引起了争议，比特币的去中心化精神直接反对他所寻求的垄断控制。

The court's decision represents a major victory for the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), a consortium of technology and cryptocurrency firms advocating for open-source software development. By challenging Wright's lawsuits, COPA aimed to prevent the disruption of Bitcoin's development and to protect the broader cryptocurrency ecosystem from Wright's litigation threats, which included claims totaling more than £900 billion ($1.1 trillion).

法院的裁决代表了加密货币开放专利联盟（COPA）的重大胜利，该联盟是一个由倡导开源软件开发的技术和加密货币公司组成的联盟。通过挑战 Wright 的诉讼，COPA 旨在防止比特币的发展受到干扰，并保护更广泛的加密货币生态系统免受 Wright 的诉讼威胁，其中包括总额超过 9000 亿英镑（1.1 万亿美元）的索赔。

What To Know

要知道什么

Justice James Mellor sentenced Wright to a suspended 12-month prison term for violating a court order barring him from pursuing legal claims related to Bitcoin's intellectual property.

法官詹姆斯·梅勒 (James Mellor) 判处 Wright 12 个月监禁，缓期执行，原因是他违反了法院禁止他提出与比特币知识产权相关的法律索赔的命令。

Wright, who attended the hearing via video link from Asia, plans to appeal.

赖特从亚洲通过视频参加了听证会，他计划上诉。

The Australian-born and English-resident computer scientist first claimed to be "Satoshi Nakamoto," the pseudonym that masked the identity of the creator of Bitcoin, in 2016. He asserts authorship of the 2008 white paper, a foundational document for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

这位出生于澳大利亚、居住在英国的计算机科学家于 2016 年首次声称自己是“中本聪”，这个笔名掩盖了比特币创造者的身份。他声称是 2008 年白皮书的作者，该白皮书是比特币和其他技术的基础文件。加密货币。

He presented fake documents to support his assertions, according to findings from London's High Court earlier this year. His deceit consisted largely of forgeries "on a grand scale" and "technobabble." Because of this, Justice Mellor ruled in March 2024 that Wright did not create Bitcoin and had fabricated evidence to support his claim.

根据伦敦高等法院今年早些时候的调查结果，他提供了虚假文件来支持自己的主张。他的欺骗主要包括“大规模”的伪造和“技术上的胡言乱语”。因此，梅勒法官于 2024 年 3 月裁定，赖特并未创造比特币，并捏造了证据来支持他的主张。

Wright went on to commit "a clear breach" of the court order from March prohibiting further legal actions tied to his supposed intellectual property rights over Bitcoin.

赖特继续“明显违反”了 3 月份的法院命令，该命令禁止对其所谓的比特币知识产权采取进一步的法律行动。

His actions led to the contempt proceedings brought by COPA, which argued that his continued lawsuits aimed to "terrorize" developers and maintain a false narrative about Bitcoin's origins. The court struck out Wright's massive claims and ordered him to pay £145,000 in legal costs within two weeks.

他的行为导致了 COPA 提起的藐视法庭诉讼，该机构认为，他继续提起诉讼的目的是“恐吓”开发商，并维持有关比特币起源的虚假叙述。法院驳回了赖特的巨额索赔，并命令他在两周内支付 145,000 英镑的法律费用。

What People Are Saying

人们在说什么

Justice James Mellor told the court: "In both his written evidence and in days of oral evidence under cross-examination, I am entirely satisfied that Dr. Wright lied to the court extensively and repeatedly,"

法官詹姆斯·梅勒告诉法庭：“在他的书面证据和数天的盘问口头证据中，我完全满意赖特博士多次向法庭撒谎。”

"Most of his lies related to the documents he had forged, which purported to support his claim. All his lies and forged documents were in support of his biggest lie: his claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto."

“他的大部分谎言都与他伪造的文件有关，这些文件旨在支持他的主张。他所有的谎言和伪造的文件都支持他最大的谎言：他声称自己是中本聪。”

Jonathan Hough KC, counsel for COPA, told the court: Wright's legal threats had "terrorized" people, putting "developers and bloggers through...years of personal hell" and that the new claims were intended to "cause maximum possible distress."

COPA 律师乔纳森·霍夫·KC (Jonathan Hough KC) 告诉法庭：赖特的法律威胁“吓坏了”人们，让“开发者和博主经历了……数年的个人地狱”，而新的主张旨在“造成最大可能的痛苦”。

What Happens Next

接下来会发生什么

Wright's suspended sentence allows him to avoid prison if he refrains from initiating further lawsuits. However, he has announced plans to appeal the contempt finding. Legal experts suggest the appeal is unlikely to succeed, given the strength of the evidence against him.

赖特的缓刑使他如果不提起进一步的诉讼就可以避免入狱。然而，他已宣布计划对藐视法庭裁决提出上诉。法律专家表示，鉴于对他不利的证据充分，上诉不太可能成功。

The ruling is expected to impact three pending lawsuits Wright has filed based on his claims to Bitcoin's intellectual property rights. It remains to be seen whether Wright will persist in his efforts to claim ownership over the cryptocurrency's intellectual foundation, but the court's decision has significantly weakened his legal position.

该裁决预计将影响赖特基于其对比特币知识产权的主张而提起的三项未决诉讼。赖特是否会坚持声称拥有加密货币知识基础的所有权还有待观察，但法院的裁决大大削弱了他的法律地位。

This article includes reporting from The Associated Press.

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