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On July 4, the UK High Court of Justice issued a worldwide freezing order worth $1.9 million against Craig Wright in favor of podcaster Peter McCormack. McCormack won his defamation lawsuit with Wright on January 25 and has been trying to recover his substantial legal fees from the Australian businessman. The lawsuit began in April 2019 when McCormack tweeted about Wright, the falsely self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin . “ Craig Wright is not Satoshi,” McCormack wrote. He continued, “ Craig Wright is a fraud… he is a liar and a fraud… and he’s a moron; he is not Satoshi.” Wright sued him, but McCormack ultimately prevailed. According to the world’s most powerful copyright court, Wright did lie about writing Bitcoin’s whitepaper and fraudulently submitted doctored evidence to support his false claim. Craig Wright loses Peter McCormack case ahead of COPA decision Read more: Court to sentence Craig Wright for lying about being Satoshi An extraordinary remedy for ext...

A UK newspaper says it has started an investigation after it published an article that appeared to promote a suspicious NFT project claiming to be in support of the country’s National Health Service (NHS). On Wednesday the Northamptonshire Telegraph ran an article promoting the ‘Nurse Coin Token and NFT’ via its Your World contributor system, which allows anybody to publish stories on the newspaper’s website. The article ’s author, Sylvester Sean Masango, describes himself as a ‘ crypto wizard’ helping “to bolster the welfare of NHS heroes and their families,” with his NFT s.  According to Masango, purchasing one NFT costs $334 and the project will donate half of the transactional costs to the NHS to help fund childcare and medical expenses and develop “much-needed care homes and hospices.” It also offers token holders discounts on various goods and services but doesn’t specify which ones. Screenshot taken of the published article before it was remo...