Craig Wright claims to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakomoto’s creator in a defamation trial in Norway. The computer scientist is suing a previously unknown Twitter user who called him a’scammer. Wright claims he destroyed the hard drive containing the ‘key slices’ to prove he’s the creator of Bitcoin. Wright has also seen other legal trouble in his six-year-long quest to prove his claims. The case is one of two simultaneous defamation cases the infamous Australian programmer is involved in against a Norwegian Twitter user, Magnus Granath, who is better known by his Twitter handle, Hodlnaut, is also the defendant in a UK case he’s suing Granath for talking so much smack about him online that it allegedly resulted in death threats. . . .
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