Bitcoin ‘inventor’ ordered to pay $100m in damages

07-12-2021

Muireann Bolger

Bitcoin ‘inventor’ ordered to pay $100m in damages

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An Australian computer scientist and self-proclaimed inventor of Bitcoin has been cleared of majority of claims in an IP dispute, but will have to pay $100 million in damages⁠—reportedly in the form of IP assets—to a venture he founded with his deceased business partner.


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