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Aussie ‘bitcoin founder’ faces court truth test

London | Australian techno-entrepreneur Craig Wright is headed to an English courtroom to prove that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous and almost mythical progenitor of bitcoin, as part of a fight to wrest control of his claimed creation.

Five years after Dr Wright outed himself as Nakamoto, and with debate still raging as to the credibility of a claim he has never conclusively established, it will now fall to an English intellectual property judge to make the big call.

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Hans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.

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