About the Podcast
In May 2024, Australian computer scientist Craig Wright became the most prolific evidence forger in modern British legal history, and very likely of all time.
Wright was found to have forged and manipulated almost 500 pieces of evidence in his case against the Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance (COPA), leading to a dramatic defeat that brought to an end a ten-year campaign to become legally recognised as Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin.
Had he been victorious, Wright could have netted himself and his cabal of shady backers tens of billions of pounds, but his defeat left him facing a possible jail sentence instead.
Wright’s battle with COPA represented the final hurdle in his decade-long effort to be legally recognised as Satoshi, an effort that saw him, at one point, fighting more than ten lawsuits simultaneously, all of which were fraudulent in nature.
These lawsuits were preceded by efforts to convince the public of Wright’s Satoshi claims through showy PR spectacles, with the genesis of his entire ten-year cosplay being a battle with the Australian Taxation office in 2014 which left him on the verge of bankruptcy.
Using a variety of sources, including courtroom testimony, trial evidence, public records and the experiences of those who were there at the time, crypto writer Mark Hunter and Bitcoin consultant Arthur van Pelt recount Wright’s at times unbelievable battle to be crowned Satoshi, a story of underhand opportunism and brazen skullduggery that will leave your jaw on the floor with every incredible twist.
