It then becomes literally impossible for someone to out you- nobody will listen to the guy that says "heh, I cracked the case, Satoshi is Craig Wright!"
It's also interesting that UK courts can compel speech like this. Would the same remedy be available to US courts?
It's not clear to me if this would also extend to a court order requiring someone to publish something, but I think there's going to be some squeamishness as to whether that's a remedy a court can provide. (Obviously, an out-of-court settlement could provide for that).
That's how those weird judges are able to "make" young kids stand on a street corner wearing a "I did a crime" placard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox...
> Ayyadurai is notable for his widely disputed claim of being the "inventor of email".[73] His claim is based on an electronic mail software called EMAIL, an implementation of interoffice email system, which he wrote as a 14-year-old student at Livingston High School, New Jersey in 1979.[15][74][note 1] Initial reports that repeated Ayyadurai's assertion—from organizations such as The Washington Post and the Smithsonian Institution—were followed by public retractions.[15][75] These corrections were triggered by objections from historians and ARPANET pioneers who cited the fact the history of email dated back to the early 1970s.[12] Ayyadurai started a campaign in 2011 in which he rebranded himself as the "Inventor of Email"; according to a paper published in Information & Culture, he "provoked a dramatic succession of exaggerated claims, credulous reporters, retractions, and accusations that a cabal of industry insiders and corrupt Wikipedia editors are colluding to hide the truth."[76]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai#EMAIL_inventio...
Which is great. A good public shaming is probably more of a deterrent than nebulous financial penalties or unlikely jail time. No one wants to be humiliated for their shenanigans.
Full judgement: https://assets.caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2024/...
I wonder what would happen if he do it in other jurisdiction. .. Does it count as a contempt of court?
Some more discussion on:
Self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor referred to UK prosecutors for alleged perjury
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40975209
Craig Wright's claim of inventing Bitcoin may get him arrested for perjury
There’s nothing quite like seeing an aggressive blowhard bullshitter get a proper telling off.
