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Dave Kleiman's estate sues Craig Wright for $10B
- brianbreslin 9y agoDoes this validate the theory that Craig is Satoshi?
- FloayYerBoat 9y agoNo, It validates the theory that Craig is a conman.
- oh_sigh 9y agoIt is interesting that it is claimed that Craig and Kleiman are stated to have claimed they were working on a digital currency 6 months before bitcoin was released.
- keymone 9y agoas far as i understand this comes from CSW's emails to Dave and it is highly probable those emails are forged.
- adventured 9y agoThey mined ~1.1 million coins in the early days, and apparently / supposedly agreed to split them in some manner. That's all there is to the story up to now, there's still no significant evidence of Wright being Satoshi. His very poor attempt at previously claiming it, combined with what very much looks like Kleiman's estate being ripped off, rather points in the con-man direction as someone else said.
- asciimo 9y agoMay as well be suspicious about the amount of bitcoin they mined, and when they mined it.
- scott_s 9y agoI would not take any of the claims at face value. This article's submitter also has a top comment pointing to a piece calling all claims into question (http://blog.wizsec.jp/2018/02/kleiman-v-craig-wright-bitcoins.html http://blog.wizsec.jp/2018/02/kleiman-v-craig-wright-bitcoin...).
- ckastner 9y agoNo, it's just one person filing a lawsuit assuming that to be the case. This is priceless. Imagine Wright truly is a fraud. Then he's now being sued by another fraud, and he might have to settle a law suit with real money to avoid the risk of being exposed as a fraud.
- tim333 9y agoIt's quite possible that Wrights deceased business partner's brother who is suing is not a fraud and genuinely believes Wright stole some stuff.
- yodon 9y agoThe actual title is “The Man Who Claimed to Invent Bitcoin Is Being Sued for $10 Billion” not “Dave Kleiman’s estate sues Craig Wright for $10B” (helpful for people who don’t recognize either name)
- heifetz 9y agofunny how billions of dollars brings out the worst in people (or the worst people)
- Canada 9y agoThis post is an interesting analysis of the wallets referenced in the lawsuit. Apparently neither Wright or Kleiman ever controlled any of them. http://blog.wizsec.jp/2018/02/kleiman-v-craig-wright-bitcoins.html http://blog.wizsec.jp/2018/02/kleiman-v-craig-wright-bitcoin...
- shkkmo 9y agoDoes it matter? The lawsuit isn't asking for those coins back, it is asking to be paid the value of those coins. Won't the burden then be on Craig to disprove his own claims of ever possessing those coins?
- tim333 9y agoThat's quite funny. So it seems Wright is a bit of a con man and made out he was a crypto billionaire and is now being sued for the billions he doesn't actually have.