The legal world has begun the process of getting to the bottom of the controversial Australian computer scientist Craig Wright’s as-yet wholly unsubstantiated assertions that he is Satoshi Nakamoto – the pseudonymous founder of bitcoin (BTC).
The long-awaited trial, in Miami, Florida, has been in the pipelines for some three years and has pitted the estate of the alleged former Wright partner Dave Kleiman, who died in 2013, against a man many have labeled “Faketoshi.”
Wright is a highly polarizing figure in the crypto sphere, and his claim that he is Nakamoto has led him to legal campaigns to block websites from publishing the Bitcoin white paper.
The Kleiman estate claims that Wright essentially pocketed Dave Kleiman’s share of a BTC 1.1
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