The controversy surrounding the person of Craig Wright continues. In 2016, this Australian programmer and cryptography specialist claimed that he is the real Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. Currently, legal proceedings are underway against his person. Wright is accused of misappropriating up to several hundred thousand bitcoins, whose current value may reach up to $10 billion. The controversy around the person of Craig Wright continues. In 2016, this Australian programmer and cryptography specialist claimed that he is the real Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. Currently, legal proceedings are underway against his person. Wright is accused of misappropriating up to several hundred thousand bitcoin, whose current value may reach up to 10 billion dollars. The lawsuit in this case was filed in district court in Florida. The plaintiff is Ira Kleiman - brother of the late Dave Kleiman, also a renowned programmer and cybersecurity expert with whom Wright had a long-standing professional relationship. The figure of Dave Kleiman became widely recognized in 2015, precisely in connection with the controversy surrounding the person of Wright, claiming that he is the real creator of Bitcoin technology, hiding under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. Gizmodo and Wired, investigating the matter, have pointed to a close relationship between Wright and Kleiman in the early years of Bitcoin technology, based on documents they obtained, including disclosed confidential emails. The evidence gathered in this case is not compelling enough to prove that Wright and Kleiman are directly responsible for the creation of Bitcoin's revolutionary technology, however, it is solid enough to conclude that they were closely involved with Bitcoin from its very beginnings. The two men were said to have "dug up" together, as also indicated by the aforementioned lawsuit, over 1.1 million BTC. After Dave Kleiman's death, however, Wright allegedly used forged documents (signed with Kleiman's forged signatures) to appropriate a sizable portion of the bitcoin belonging to Kleiman, which is now his inheritance. Motion No. 9:18-cv-80176-BB in this case was filed on February 14 of this year in the Circuit Court, Southern District of the State of Florida. The main defendant in the case has also publicly addressed the topic by posting a one-word statement on his tweet account: "Greed," Wright concluded. It should be noted at this point that the cryptocurrency community is already very skeptical about many of the issues contained in the aforementioned lawsuit. First of all, the fact that Wright had actual access to such a large amount of bitcoin is seriously questionable - as indicated also by a report from a private investigation into the matter conducted by network security specialists from a Japanese company WizSec. The report shows, among other things, that the bitcoin addresses claimed to be owned by Wright, where the lion's share of the fortune was to be found, were in fact mostly addresses connected (to a greater or lesser degree) with the Mt.Gox exchange or belonging to other, officially unconnected companies or individuals. The only thing that seems to link them all is the fact that they have or used to have large amounts of BTC. It seems that just like in the case of Satoshi Nakamoto's identity impersonation, the current case can only expose further games and mystifications conducted by the Australian. Tags bitcoin btc Craig Wright satoshi Satoshi Nakamoto
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