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Bitcoin's self-proclaimed inventor wins trial over stash worth $54B
- throwmemoney 5y agoArticle say $5.4 billion: The Australia-born Wright, who later moved to London, in May sued software developers to secure around 111,000 bitcoin now worth about $5.4 billion that he claimed he owns.
- grlass 5y agoThis headline is misleading, the jury ruled that Wright owes W&K and Kleiman's estate $100 million in intellectual property rights. The trial was never meant to ascertain if Wright is who he claims to be, since both parties asserted for the purposes of the trial that this was true. Thus, no cryptographic signatures were required to prove identity.
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