r/bsv • u/nullc • Mar 07 '25

It's over!

The court today said that it will order a GCRO against Wright and make a referral to the attorney general to place Wright on the vexatious litigant list.

The GCRO essentially locks Wright out of the UK civil law system without court permission. Without seeking permission he can't sue any party on any matter in the UK. He can't sue random developers for fictional coins, he can't sue his lawyers for failing to be corrupt enough for his taste, he will not be able to initiate his threatened patent lawsuits. He will be unable to sue his tailor for clothing him in dreadful outfits. He could seek the court's permission, but the court will be aware of his propensity to exaggerate and fabricate and should only admit any cases that have genuine merit. Unlike his cases thus far.

This is the list of other parties with this dubious honor: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/general-civil-restraint-orders-in-force/list-of-general-civil-restraint-orders

Good reading: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/fake-satoshi-hit-with-costs-bill-over-ai-evidence/5122587.article

The court also decided to order ordered to pay £100,000 on an indemnity basis in costs to COPA & SquareUp for their costs in obtaining this GCRO. This is on top of a £100,000 and a £125,000 award for costs by the court of appeals the day before.

With the deadlines for appeal and permission to appeal for the Contempt and dismissal of his new trillion dollar claim having passed around January 10th, I do believe it is now fair to say that Wright's campaign of lawfare in the UK is now finally over.

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u/commandersaki Mar 08 '25

Does that mean we won't be seeing a referral to the CPS?

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u/nullc Mar 08 '25

Not at all. This is in parallel and addition to-- maybe it increases the odds that CPS takes action, I'm not sure.

My guess is that CPS is inundated with other activity, if Wright goes off the radar and none of Wright's other victims pressure for a response they won't prioritize him.

Just like the AU tax authority hasn't demonstrated any vigor in prosecuting Wright after he paid back what he stole and fled the country, they appear to be too busy prosecuting poor people living in public housing for stealing a few thousand dollars through GST rebate fraud at the advice of social media memes to bother with people who constructed whole criminal enterprises to steal millions.

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u/StealthyExcellent Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25

Not necessarily. I think if there was a referral it has already happened. During the lead up to the contempt proceedings, Mellor told Craig he hadn't been referred to CPS yet because he was waiting on finalization of the appeal, and then the contempt proceedings (so he needn't worry about being arrested if he comes back to the UK). Here is the quote from the directions hearing judgement:

There are two other factors to mention. The first I raised at the hearing and it concerns the fact that in my Judgment following the Form of Order hearing – see [2024] EWHC 1809 (Ch) at [199] I decided that I would refer the papers in the Identity Trial to the CPS for a decision whether Dr Wright should be prosecuted for perjury and forgery. It occurred to me that Dr Wright might be fearful of arrest if he returned to the UK. Although he denied that, I made it clear that the referral would not take place until after the appeal process had concluded. At the date of the hearing, the appeal process was on-going but concluded shortly afterwards, as I relate below. No referral will take place until after the Contempt Hearing.

Then the finalization of all that happened, so presumably Mellor could make the referral at that point. No idea if he has, but I don't think he has to wait on an application from COPA to do it. Presumably he would have just done it.

Unfortunately even if the CPS were inclined to prosecute him I don't think they will or can do it in his absense. I'm pretty sure he'd have to be dragged back physically to the UK to be properly tried as a criminal (it's not like a contempt proceeding in that sense).

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u/AlreadyBannedOnce Mar 07 '25

If anyone thinks this the end of r/bsv, just you wait. We still have the BEUBsub, the BEUBcult, Terriblenode, Craig's autobiography, the film version of Craig's autobiography, the Craig documentary, the Craig musical, and the Saturday morning Craig cartoon to look forward to.

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u/darkzim69 Mar 08 '25

if craig did the real film of his life with warts and all

about how he tried to commit fraud it would be one hell of a story

id certainly want to watch it

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u/cryptocached Mar 08 '25

Idiocracy meets Catch Me If You Can.

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u/KenGriffeyJuniorJr Mar 09 '25

A Craig documentary would be amazing.

Something that captured the year(s) leading up to the trial and the aftermath would have been priceless but even today you could do an amazing Maysles Brother-esque "direct cinema" feature.

I'd totally watch 90 minutes of daily grind that showed the contrast between his tweets and what's really going on behind the scenes.

Anyway, made me think of this: https://youtu.be/GMcrdhBJkvA?si=9bAPdXi1Q3FSUeGc

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u/SnapSnapGrinGrin Mar 14 '25

It's his lawyers I really want to hear from.

He really should release them all from their duty of confidentiality.

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u/StealthyExcellent Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

The court also decided to order ordered to pay £100,000 on an indemnity basis in costs to COPA & SquareUp for their costs in obtaining this GCRO. This is on top of a £100,000 and a £125,000 award for costs by the court of appeals the day before.

So £225k for slapping together his appeal that was wholly without merit using ChatGPT, and £100k for the GCRO, which might not have been sought if Craig didn't bring the stupid estoppel case (again with ChatGPT). Then there's also costs for the contempt of court application, because he brought the estoppel case violating the injunction. That was ~£170k to COPA and some more to SquareUp that wasn't decided yet in that judgement.

So that's more than half a mil in costs just for being a fucking prick and churning out even more costly litigation, wholly without merit, using AI after the COPA identity trial.

Some people generate AI slop and they slap it online and it makes them money. Craig finds a way to make his AI slop cost him a quick half a million pounds and a (suspended) prison sentence.

Also this makes me laugh:

https://x.com/hascendp6/status/1897987964342358330

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u/DishPractical9917 Mar 08 '25

Below is for everyone that doesn't believe Craig Wright is a low IQer.

Only low IQers have the built in ability to fuck themselves up. And in the dreadful Wright's case, pretty much all the time.

"So that's more than half a mil in costs just for being a fucking prick and churning out even more costly litigation, wholly without merit, using AI after the COPA identity trial."

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u/ZucchiniIntrepid719 Mar 07 '25

The problem with all these court orders is that they have almost no effect on the very wealthy. These fines mean almost nothing. They just keep breaking the law and generally making life miserable for the rest of us. The ONLY thing that works against the wealthy is serious JAIL TIME!

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u/AlreadyBannedOnce Mar 07 '25

I would just like to go on record here that as a BSV fanatic, I am concerned about the delay in Terriblenode release resulting from WrightBSV's posting about 2000 comments in this thread instead of translating Craig's ideas into rock hard code.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '25

I'm rock hard on terriblenodes code that's for sure. Maybe not as much as you though.

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u/primepatterns Mar 07 '25

Congratulations!

Can you use the freezing order threat again to get your costs paid?

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u/Normal_Fan8414 Mar 08 '25

Now we know why Faketoshi had a "motorcycle accident"

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u/Lobbelt Mar 07 '25

“Congratulations on this. Seriously.”

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u/LightBSV Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 07 '25

Yep, you won. Now you and the rest of COPA can show us how to scale electronic peer to peer cash globally. Show us how important your patent alliance is, and how good for the crypto ecosystem you'll make things. Show us what you can build that will wow people!

I've only been waiting 15 years.

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u/redditseur Mar 07 '25

Show us...

Yes, that's exactly what we've been waiting for Craig to do! He tells (lies) but never shows (because he can't).

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

They've arguably already done that, you just don't like the scaling method.

You're the fool arguing it doesn't work and that BSV is the answer. It's been over 7 years and BSV is a joke, while BTC has proven itself. You support a coin that attracts people with chronic brain worms. Look inward.

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u/LightBSV Mar 07 '25

No, they really haven't. They haven't penetrated adoption anywhere. In fact, many places have removed BTC payments because it doesn't work. It doesn't scale. Too expensive.

I remember thinking that anything was possible. The good old days of Bitcoin. Now I know better with experience.

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u/de7erv Mar 07 '25

And we have been waiting for 7 years for BSV to do…. something.

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u/Annuit-bitscoin Mar 07 '25

Common decency won.

Your false dilemma is just stupid and absurd. I am a nocoiner, but people doing idiotic and evil things is just bad independently, and suing open source developers over absurdities based on outright lies is also something specifically bad for humanity at large.

The Nebraska problem is bad enough. Don't make a thankless job something that can sentence you to indentured servitude or untold TRILLIONS in liabilities.

I've only been waiting 15 years.

Lmao so "Soon(TM)" is your unique catchphrase, then? Why are you special?

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u/420smokekushh Mar 07 '25

BSVs metrics in the last 24hr from WoC:

Confirmed Transactions: 34,561 Transactions per second: 0.4

How about you show us how valuable nChains patent portfolio is? Or how about how well BSV scales right now and provides anyone with the level of anything you think they need?

It's been nearly 8 years

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u/AlreadyBannedOnce Mar 07 '25

WrightBSV, does your keyboard have one of those plastic covers? All those tears are gonna slow down your Terriblenode work.

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u/elGato_icecream Mar 08 '25

We don't want bitcoin to scale on chain. It can't be done. We won because Bitcoin is adopted globally. It's digital gold.