Court lets Craig Wright wait for keys to ‘his’ $8.5B Bitcoin stash to be delivered
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Court lets Craig Wright wait for keys to 'his' $8.5B Bitcoin stash to be delivered
Craig Wright, the man desperate to convince the world that he is Bitcoin's creator, may have something to celebrate in his ongoing lawsuit against the Kleiman estate if the so-called "bonded courier" shows up. Basically, things are getting weird.
Court documents shared by CoinDesk details how a US district judge has called several previously established facts into question.
Judge Reinhart - who Wright insulted during a recent interview - had deemed it a fact that the Kleiman estate retained a 50/50 stake in Wright's assets and intellectual property.
However, court documents show that Justice Bloom has said the facts are unsettled. Previously, the hearing centered around the amount and whereabouts of Wright's Bitcoin stash, meaning his partnership with the late David Kleiman was beyond Reinhart's remit, Bloom says.
She also notes the amount of Bitcoin owned by Wright "remains unknown, or at the very least, still at issue."
The bonded courier
The lawsuit began in February 2018 after Dave Kleiman's brother Ira filed a suit o