Self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright’s defamation case against Bitcoin Cash advocate Roger Ver has been thrown out by a UK court on the grounds that it is “weak” and “inappropriate.”
Wright delivered a legal notice to Ver when he was briefly in the UK earlier this year, claiming a video Ver made describing Wright as a “fraud” was damaging to his reputation.
But High Court Judge Sir Matthew Nicklin said there was scant evidence of the alleged harm done to Wright’s reputation, saying Wright had failed to provide sufficient evidence of “the global reputation he enjoys and, more particularly, the extent to which it has been damaged.”
“There is no other evidence as to the extent of the Claimant’s reputation in the UK (or elsewhere),” says the court on the evidence offered by Wright’s lawyer, Adam Wolanski. “Specifically, there is no evidence at all of any actual reputational harm that the Claimant has suffered.”
