Australian computer scientist has served Roger Ver, CEO of .com, with a libel suit at a London cash meetup according to a by Decrypt on May 2.
According to the report, Ver called Wright “a fraud and a liar” in a YouTube — which has since been stricken for violating community guidelines — that prompted Wright’s libel suit. Ver commented to Decrypt that he will be fighting the lawsuit.
Wright has served legal suits to other figures in the crypto sector, who have denied that he is the mysterious inventor of , .
As Cointelegraph previously in April, Wright also served a libel suit to crypto podcaster Peter McCormack, who said in a program that Wright is not the real Satoshi. The aims to “prevent McCormack from making further fraudulent claims that Wright is not the individual behind the Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym.”
While Ver does not condone this apparent campaign, Derypt also notes that he is not in favor of exchanges SV, which is backed by Wright, as a form of protest. Ver said on the topic:
“I don’t think it was a good thing. If people want to trade it, I think people should be able to trade it. Free the market, free the world. If you want to trade SV, go for it.”
A $4 billion lawsuit was also brought against Wright, as Cointelegraph previously , in February 2017. This case was filed in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Florida by the family of David Kleiman, a recently-deceased computer scientist, which accused Wright of forging contracts in order to illegally pocket as much as 1.1 million in .
Published at Sat, 04 May 2019 04:19:51 +0000
