Craig Wright to forfeit crypto: "perjured himself" says judge

in bitcoin •  5 years ago 


A court document published yesterday says that Craig Wright must forfeit half his crypto mined prior to 2014 to Ira Kleiman as well as half his intellectual property. He is also ordered to pay the attorney’s fees and related expenses incurred in this motion.

The court said that CSW "argued in bad faith", "perjured himself" and "admitted false evidence" during the motion.

Katie Ananina attended all 3 days of the hearing, and provides insider details about what actually went on in court. She also provided brilliant coverage on her twitter of events in court, which got her in serious trouble at the court house. She reveals details of what happened.

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Great update on big legal news. At least she didn't get thrown in jail for reporting on a Court case like Tommy Robinson!

What is particularly interesting about the case is that "the Plaintiffs [Kleiman] allege in the Second Amended Complaint that David Kleiman and Dr. Wright were partners in the creation of the Bitcoin cybercurrency and that they “mined” (i.e.,acquired) a substantial amount of that currency together."
Thus Kleiman & Wright are Satoshi Nakamoto.

While the Judge explicitly does not rule on this issue, he accepts the basic premises of the Plaintiff's claim.

The Judge finds that Craig Wright is not a credible witness (meaning the Judge thinks he's a big liar) and thus does not accept ANY of his convoluted story about how he split his Bitcoin keys and put them into a "blind trust" and doesn't have access to the 8th key shard so cannot move his Bitcoin or identify his public keys.
However, I suspect that there is some truth amongst Craig Wright's lies.
Some of the seemingly crazy behaviour of Wright that the Judge finds "incredible" actually rings true as the way crypto true believers behave. Especially one as mentally unstable as Wright.

Craig Wright has been caught between the legal and factual positions he put in relation to ATO investigations, his own lies and deceptions over the years and this case.

Lmao

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I think Katie's adventures were more entertaining than the actual Craig wright case, I think we're all pretty bored of it, I don't even get why he persists with all of this? What is he getting out of the whole thing?

I like the popcorn or coudl I say popcoin idea? :P

What do you mean "why he persists with all of this?".
He was sued for half his Bitcoin holdings.
What else was he going to do other than defend the claim?

was the "coudl" deliberate? lolol

LOL you know in blockchain we like to put the d in front of everything so I’m going to go with a yes it shoudl

haha it made me lol