The Judge who accused Craig Wright of lying in court may order him to pay $650,000 to the estate of his late partner, Dave Kleiman. Wright claims to have created Bitcoin and is being sued for half of a one million bitcoin cache mined by Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Craig Wright will appeal $5 billion ruling
Say it in Inigo Montoya’s voice: ‘Hello. My name is Ira Kleiman. You robbed my brother. Prepare to pay.’
Self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright intends to appeal a ruling by Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhardt that branded him a liar and ordered him to give approximately $5 billion worth of bitcoin to the estate of his late partner Dave Kleiman.
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Judge in Craig Wright lawsuit once quit as US Attorney to work for Jeffrey Epstein
The controversial case had an equally controversial judge who was on the payroll of the now-dead accused sex trafficker
The U.S. magistrate overseeing the legal battle between Craig Wright and the estate of Dave Kleiman over who owns a $10 billion bitcoin fortune and Bitcoin’s underlying IP once quit his job as a U.S. Attorney to work for Jeffery Epstein, the multimillionaire accused sex trafficker who was being targeted in a probe by the U.S. Attorney’s office.
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Today in Crazy Crypto: A Belgian Satoshi wannabe and McAfee is McA-Free
Another pretender to the Bitcoin throne emerges, while gun enthusiast and would-be Trump usurper John McAfee walks free in the DR
From Florida and the Dominican Republic, the wackier ends of the cryptocurrency world came to the fore this week, as yet another Satoshi Nakamoto threw his hat into the ring and a pungent John McAfee walked out of a Dominican jail after an incarceration few believed was genuine in the first place.