Former nChain CEO's Sentence for Craig Wright Leaks

The former CEO of nChain, Christen Ager-Hanssen, was sentenced to 10 months for leaking documents that revealed Craig Wright. A judgment hearing occurred on May 3 in the High Court as part of the nChain Holding AG case against Ager-Hanssen. It was established during the hearing that Ager-Hanssen violated court orders by failing to remove leaked documents from the public domain, disclose the recipients of the documents, and surrender his devices. The leaked document, referred to as the Fairway Brief, contained confidential details regarding Craig Wright's false claims as Satoshi and an alleged 'criminal conspiracy' involving Calvin Ayre, Marco Bianchi, and the Fairway Family Office AG to enable Ayre to acquire nChain's IP inexpensively. nChain obtained court orders to remove the information from the public domain before pursuing contempt of court charges. Ager-Hanssen was found in contempt for deliberately disobeying the orders, viewed as an attempt to undermine both court authority and nChain's confidentiality requests. Consequently, he received immediate custodial sentences of 10 months and four months concurrently for breaching the court's orders, with an expected release in five months. Ager-Hanssen plans to appeal his conviction with support from Whistleblowers UK, criticizing the insufficiency of UK whistleblower laws in protecting whistleblowers from offenders.