A British judge has allowed Craig Wright to submit new evidence regarding his identification as Satoshi Nakamoto and ordered him to pay over one million dollars

ChainCatcher news, recently, there has been new progress in the legal dispute regarding the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto and the rights to Bitcoin. A UK judge has rescheduled the trial between Craig Wright (Faketoshi) and Bitcoin core developers to February 5.

On December 15, during a pre-trial review, Justice Edward James Mellor allowed Wright to submit an additional 97 documents to support his claims. These documents were allegedly found on two USB drives discovered in his home drawer in September, including LaTeX files—an open-source document preparation system used for drafting the Bitcoin white paper. Bitcoin developers accuse Wright of fabricating evidence, forging and tampering with metadata, and deliberately delaying the litigation process. According to them, the new documents were revealed only after they submitted 50 pieces of evidence proving that the materials previously submitted by Wright were forged.

Judge Mellor also approved a second security application from the developers, ordering Wright to pay an additional £800,000 (approximately $1 million) by January 5 to cover the developers' legal costs in case of losing the case. Wright has deposited £100,000 (approximately $127,000) as a bond.