Alleged Founder Of Bitcoin Humiliated By Lawyers Who Disprove His Claims
Scroll DownCraig Wright, the cryptography programmer and blockchain developer who claims to be the anonymous founder of Bitcoin, has been shamed in court by the attorneys representing the estate of Dave Kleiman. The legal team of the Kleiman estate filed a lawsuit against Craig Wright over mined Bitcoin tokens, but the trial has turned into a media spectacle because the respondent insists that he is Satoshi Nakamoto. The Kleiman estate attorneys have been deconstructing Wrigth's claims, and the latest round of evidence collected by the legal team proofs that Wright has been making bogus claims.
In addition to claiming that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, Wright is also a very difficult litigant, and the Kleiman estate wants the court to issue sanctions. Wright provided the court with a list of 145 Bitcoin addresses that he allegedly controls; some of them certainly look like they belong to Nakamoto because of the date when they were created, but the evidence presented by the plaintiff shows that Wright does not have a claim to this Bitcoin wallets.
The Bitcoin addresses that Wright turned over to the court date back to the period between May 2009 and January 2010; they represent the tokens mined by the Wright-Kleiman partnership, and they are worth $64 million. A message posted to a Bitcoin forum by an anonymous user featured the private keys for the wallets, which Wright does not have.
The plaintiffs are asking the court to issue sanctions against Wright because he turned over a list of Bitcoin addresses that were not his; in other words, he is hiding the tokens he mined with Kleiman. More importantly, this evidence also proves that Wright's claims of being Satoshi Nakamoto are also patently false. The anonymous poster who signed a message using the private keys of the wallets called out Wright for his fraudulent schemes, and he also said that "we are all Satoshi," an allusion to the idea that the Satoshi Nakamoto pseudonym is not for an individual but for a group of developers who jointly created the blockchain that supports Bitcoin. Nakamoto is the author of the first Bitcoin white paper, but he was likely writing on behalf of the team.
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