UK trial opens into bitcoin 'inventor' claims


Claiming to be the mythical inventor of bitcoin and owning the rights to it, Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist will be trying to prove the fact in a London court starting Monday. — Photo by GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP

LONDON: The trial of an alleged bitcoin creator opened in London on Monday, seeking to determine whether an Australian computer scientist invented the world's most popular cryptocurrency.

Craig Wright, 53, says he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of bitcoin's creator and author of a white paper that introduced the cryptocurrency to the world in 2008.

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