An Australian entrepreneur who claims to have created bitcoin has been ordered to pay the attorney fees of the brother of his late cryptocurrency collaborator.

Federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart ruled that computer engineer Craig Wright should be sanctioned after delivering false testimony and misleading the court in a lawsuit brought against him in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida by Ira Kleiman.

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