{"id":261502,"date":"2022-09-12T19:39:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T18:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=261502"},"modified":"2024-02-17T22:58:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T22:58:01","slug":"long-awaited-hodlonaut-vs-craig-wright-trial-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/long-awaited-hodlonaut-vs-craig-wright-trial-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Long awaited Hodlonaut vs Craig Wright trial starts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Magnus Granath, a Twitter influencer known as Hodlonaut<\/a>, has been in a legal dispute with the Australian computer scientist Craig Steven Wright<\/a> (CSW) since 2019, and the long-awaited trial finally started<\/a> in Oslo, Norway, on Sept. 12.<\/p>\n

CSW has been claiming to be Bitcoin<\/a>‘s mysterious founder, Satoshi Nakamoto. Many, including Hodlonaut, have been publicly saying that CSW was lying. However, CSW said that Granath's dismissal of his claims to be Satoshi had been particularly harmful to his reputation.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the trial that started on Sept. 12 is to assess the degree of the damage Hodlonaut dealt to CSW's reputation.<\/p>\n

The Trial<\/h2>\n

CSW requested Hodlonaut to delete the tweets that called him a fraud for claiming Nakamoto's identity and issue a public statement admitting that CSW was actually Nakamoto himself. While Hodlonaut deleted the tweed, he didn't release any public comments.<\/p>\n

After the trial date was clearly decided, Hodlonaut set up a website called “defendingbtc.com” and announced it on his Twitter account, he requested support from his followers to prove that CSW is not Nakamoto.<\/p>\n

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Dear bitcoiners,<\/p>\n

I need your help to finish a fight that began back in March, 2019. https:\/\/t.co\/iR55reaLKW<\/a><\/p>\n

— hodlonaut 80 IQ 13%er \ud83c\udf2e\u26a1\ud83d\udd11 \ud83d\udc1d (@hodlonaut) August 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n