The trial for Bitcoin On Monday, Craig Wright, who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, won in trial against the estate of a deceased former business partner. David Kleiman was a previous business associate and close personal friend of the Australian computer scientist who claims to hold a massive fortune of 1.1 million Bitcoin. Ira Kleiman, brother of David Kleiman, was the one to file the lawsuit. Ira claims that his brother and Wright created Bitcoin through a co-partnership in the suit. It is additionally claimed that the Kleiman estate is entitled to half of that 1.1 million Bitcoin, which is worth over 50 billion dollars. Kleiman…
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Visa CEO: We’ll let you spend crypto at 70 million merchants
Al Kelly said Visa wants to be an intermediary between crypto holders and merchants—the role Satoshi Nakamoto sought to eliminate with Bitcoin
“We’re trying to do two things,” Kelly said. “One is to enable the purchase of bitcoin on Visa credentials.” The second, he added, is “working with bitcoin wallets to allow the bitcoin to be translated into a fiat currency” that can be immediately “used at any of the 70 million places around the world where Visa is accepted.”
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Bitcoin.org says Wright is wrong, refuses to delete ‘his’ Bitcoin Whitepaper
Self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto Craig Wright’s copyright claim to own the Bitcoin Whitepaper led to the website taunting him to cryptographically prove that he is the real Bitcoin creator
Lawyers representing the Australian nChain chief scientist have demanded that Bitcoin.org and BitcoinCore.org take down their copies of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper—claiming that this amounts to copyright infringement. But in a blistering blog post, Bitcoin.org said it was having none of it—and declared that it was refusing to unpublish the whitepaper because “these claims are without merit.”
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Craig Wright is going to trial
After two years, the preliminaries in Ira Kleiman’s $10 billion lawsuit against the man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto are over and the argument is heading to a jury
Wright, chief scientist of nChain and genuinely father of the Bitcoin SV cryptocurrency, has long claimed to be Nakamoto, which would give him possession of the 1.1 million BTC. While virtually no one in the cryptocurrency industry believes his claim, the estate of Wright’s late partner at the time those bitcoins were mined in the project’s early days, Dave Kleiman, does and wants half.
