Craig Wright, a senior researcher at nChain, failed again in an attempt to prove that he was the creator of Bitcoin. “The address list of Satoshi Nakamoto,” which the entrepreneur submitted to the court in the framework of the proceedings with the Kleimanov family, turned out to be copy-paste. This was reported by representatives of the company WizSec.

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Although the address information is not available in the public version of the document, WizSec and Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell studied the metadata of the original PDF file and concluded that Wright was trying to mislead the court.

“The list of 45 addresses provided by Wright is fully consistent with the data from the blockchain about the recipients of the first block awards. If you insert these addresses into a document, you may find that they completely fit into the format of the edited lines. In other words, this is nothing more than copy-paste, not supported by any evidence, ”writes WizSec.

In turn, the defense of Craig Wright said that Bitcoin addresses can not be remembered for nearly a decade.

“Dr. Wright knows that he has added N-blocks to the blockchain, and can determine the public addresses associated with them. However, he does not track the bitcoin blocks he mined. Other public addresses to Dr. Wright are unknown, ”says the defense.

Representatives of WizSec did not rule out that Wright could also use copy-paste in preparing a list of addresses owned by the trust company Tulip Trust , whose assets were the subject of proceedings with the Kleimans.

“Wright allegedly collected information about the major Bitcoin holders and handed it over to the court without bothering to provide any cryptographic evidence of their affiliation,” they believe.

Recall that in March 2018, Ira Kleiman, brother of the late computer criminologist and writer Dave Kleiman, who is associated with the creation of Bitcoin, filed a lawsuit for $ 10 billion against Craig Wright, accusing him of misappropriating 1.1 million BTC.

In April 2019, during the trial, Wright provided correspondence with the mathematician, which allegedly took place in 2012. Subsequently, it turned out that the document was fabricated in early 2014 – after Kleiman's death, and the PGP signature was generated using a fake key.

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