• Craig Wright shut down Bitcoin
    Bitcoin

    Satoshi or not, judge fines Craig Wright $650,000 for courtroom antics

    A judge accused Wright of lying and wasting the court’s time in a lawsuit seeking half of the fortune held by the real Satoshi Nakamoto

    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.

  • Dave Kleiman couldn't even get a loan at 400%, Craig Wright claims (via Wikimedia Commons).
    Bitcoin,  People

    Alleged Bitcoin inventor Dave Kleiman denied payday loan the day he died

    Craig Wright’s partner may have owned half of bitcoin cache now worth billions, but died in such poverty he was refused loan of a few hundred dollars, court documents reveal

    Dave Kleiman was so desperate for money that he tried to take out a predatory payday loan the day he died, said his former partner, self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright

  • Craig Wright shut down Bitcoin
    Bitcoin,  Innovators

    Australian CFO compelled to give deposition in $10 billion Bitcoin lawsuit

    Judge rules James Wilson, who worked with Craig Wright in 2013, should be deposed

    The $10 billion lawsuit between self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright and the adopted brother of his deceased friend Dave Kleiman would come down to a he said/he said argument if no other witnesses came forward. However, it appears the defense has found a witness in James Wilson, a CFO who worked for Craig Wright when Dave Kleiman was still alive. Motions filed in court this past week compelled Wilson to testify when he arrived in Washington, D.C. on Friday. Calls to the law offices associated with both parties confirmed that the deposition was scheduled for Friday.  Wright’s team initially opposed the deposition. On November 4, they filed a response in…

  • Craig Wright writing math equations
    Bitcoin

    Craig Wright unable to produce $5 billion to settle Bitcoin lawsuit

    The self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto broke off settlement talks with the estate of his late partner, who wants half of a 1.1 million bitcoin cache bitcoin’s creator should own

    In the latest act of the Craig Wright Follies, the self-proclaimed Satoshi is claiming poverty. Okay, maybe not poverty, exactly, but he has apparently backed out of a settlement deal to resolve the $10 billion lawsuit by the estate of his late partner, Dave Kleiman. According to Kleiman’s quite angry lawyers, he now says he can’t afford it.