Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright faces contempt of court in $1.2 trillion lawsuit

Craig Wright claimed to have been the author of the foundational text of bitcoin published under the pseudonym ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ despite evidence against it.

An Australian computer scientist who claimed he invented bitcoin was on Friday accused of contempt of court after he filed a 911 billion-pound ($1.18 trillion) lawsuit against Twitter founder Jack Dorsey‘s payments firm Block in Britain.