In the high-profile Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit, new details have appeared. A federal court in the Southern District of Florida ordered an Australian entrepreneur, who for several years claims to be the creator of Bitcoin Satoshi Nakamoto, to disclose the size of his bitcoin state until Monday. If he cannot fulfill the requirement, he faces a fine or even a prison sentence for contempt of court.
BREAKING in Kleiman v. Wright case. Motion to Compel GRANTED yesterday in strongly worded order. The tl; dr is below. Excerpts follow. pic.twitter.com/pu6Cd8rKl2
– Palley (@stephendpalley) June 15, 2019
At the same time, Wright must personally appear before the court by the end of the month and testify under oath.
Note that the court requires that all the Bitcoin addresses of the entrepreneur, which he owned as of December 31, 2013, be provided , and probably does not accept the argument that this information is in the possession of a blind trust.
Wright says he hasn't been complied with court order but it's not possible. pic.twitter.com/IGx1IhvT8b
– Palley (@stephendpalley) June 15, 2019
In May, he had already provided a list of 45 addresses, but he turned out to be a copy-paste of data from the blockchain about the recipients of the first mining awards, according to the research firm WizSec and Bitcoin Core developer Gregory Maxwell. Apparently, the judge also did not satisfy such a list.
Listen, I have no idea who Satoshi is. This is a strong incentive to settle.
– Palley (@stephendpalley) June 15, 2019
Recall that in February 2018, Ira Kleiman, brother of the late computer forensic scientist and mathematician Dave Kleiman, who is associated with the creation of Bitcoin, sued Craig Wright, accusing the latter of appropriating about 1.1 million BTC, which allegedly belonged to Kleiman.
The Australian entrepreneur and mathematician were once partners with W & K Info Defense Research, therefore, in addition to 1.1 million BTC, Ira Kleiman also claims compensation for her brother’s intellectual property.
Information about the possible involvement of the mathematician in the creation of Bitcoin first appeared in 2015, when the Gizmodo and Wired publications called Craig Wright a possible founder of cryptocurrency hiding under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
WizSec specialists then analyzed Kleiman’s claims and concluded that neither Wright nor the mathematician were more likely to ever have owned such a number of bitcoins.
One of the latest curiosities of the trial was the correspondence submitted to the court by an Australian businessman. According to him, the demonstrated conversation with the mathematician took place in 2012. But then it turned out that the PGP signature was generated using a fake key.
Thus, the correspondence was most likely fabricated in early 2014, after the death of Kleiman. In this regard, Wright was forced to exclude a passage from the evidence base.
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