The
U.K.
Supreme
Court
denied
Craig
Wright
permission
to
appeal
a
ruling
in
his
case
against
Peter
McCormack,
a
lawyer
told
CoinDesk
on
Thursday.
In
July
a
panel
of
judges
ruled
that
Wright
was
only
entitled
to
1
GBP
in
compensation
for
a
libel
claim
against
bitcoin
podcaster
Peter
McCormack,
regarding
Wright’s
claim
to
be
Bitcoin
inventor
Satoshi
Nakamoto.
“We
actually
only
just
found
out
about
it
but
it
was
at
the
end
of
end
of
last
year,
[the]
Supreme
Court
refused
permission
for
Craig
Wright’s
appeal,”
said
Rupert
Cowper-Coles,
a
partner
at
law
firm
RPC
who
represents
McCormack.
“So
they’re
very
pleased
that
judgment
stands
–
[the]
one
pound
nominal
damages
award,
which
Craig
has
tried
to
appeal
twice
unsuccessfully.”
CoinDesk
reached
out
to
Craig
Wright’s
lawyers
with
the
firm
Shoosmiths,
McCormack
and
the
Supreme
Court
but
did
not
hear
back
before
press
time.
Wright’s
latest
loss
comes
amid
a
boiling
point
in
another
legal
battle
he
is
waging
against
a
coterie
of
crypto
companies
and
several
bitcoin
developers.
The
group
on
Thursday
rejected
an
offer
to
settle
a
years-long
case
alleging
that
it
had
violated
Wright’s
alleged
copyright
to
Bitcoin’s
white
paper,
blockchain
database
and
file
format
by
accessing
the
bitcoin
network
and
its
databases
for
their
work.
“Hard
pass
on
that
‘settlement,'”
the
non-profit
Cryptocurrency
Open
Patent
Alliance
(COPA)
tweeted.
“The
settlement
offer
isn’t
quite
accurate
either
–
it
comes
with
loopholes
that
would
allow
him
to
sue
people
all
over
again.”
COPA
represents
the
13
Bitcoin
Core
developers
and
companies
such
as
Coinbase
and
Block
named
in
Wright’s
original
legal
complaint
from
2016.