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Dave Kleiman's estate sues Craig Wright for $10B (vice.com)
70 points by Canada on Feb 27, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 16 comments



This 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-bitcoin...


That'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.


Does 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?


Civil suit, so will be decided on the preponderance of evidence, or whichever side the judge believes is more credible.


Which makes it sound even more like a cash grab


funny how billions of dollars brings out the worst in people (or the worst people)


Does this validate the theory that Craig is Satoshi?


No, 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.


It's quite possible that Wrights deceased business partner's brother who is suing is not a fraud and genuinely believes Wright stole some stuff.


No, It validates the theory that Craig is a conman.


It 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.


as far as i understand this comes from CSW's emails to Dave and it is highly probable those emails are forged.


They 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.


I 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-bitcoin...).


May as well be suspicious about the amount of bitcoin they mined, and when they mined it.


The 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)




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