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The Kleiman v. Wright trial has come to a conclusion and Craig Wright and his defense team has won on all claims except one count of conversion. According to a court reporter, Craig Wright, the man who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, said he was “incredibly relieved.” Craig Wright’s Defense Wins
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The court case between Australian Craig Wright and the estate of his now deceased friend David Kleiman over legal rights to tens of billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin mined by Satoshi Nakamoto could end in a mistrial if jurors remain deadlocked.Wright claims he used the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto when
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Craig Wright is an Australian man who claimed to have invented Bitcoin, although that claim has been met with great skepticism within the Bitcoin community and has never been proven. Plaintiffs include the estate of David Kleiman, a computer forensics expert from Riviera Beach, Fla. who died in 2013, and
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Ultimately, Bloom told the jurors that all evidence has been received, that they should rely on their collective memories and that they should refer to jury instructions, which state, “If you find for the Estate of David Kleiman and/or W&K on any of its claims, you must consider the matter
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W&K Info Defense Research LLC, a business which was incorporated by Dave Kleiman in Florida in 2011, is also a plaintiff in the case. This entity is one vehicle through which Wright and Dave allegedly mined hundreds of thousands of bitcoins and created valuable blockchain intellectual property (i.e., software, etc).
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Wright, for his part, maintains that he and Dave never mined or “created” bitcoin together, despite a slew of emails, chat messages, and legal documents presented by the plaintiffs where Wright tells numerous people, including Dave’s friends and family and the Australian authorities, that he and Dave had a joint
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A Connecticut Jury has found that digital assets linked to cryptocurrencies are not securities in what a defense lawyer called a world-first verdict. GAW Miners investor Stuart Fraser was cleared of liability in a fraudulent operation co-opted by ZenMiner LLC on Nov. 1. "It's the first case that we know of where
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A New York federal judge has denied an Ethereum developer’s motion to dismiss criminal charges over allegations he assisted the North Korean regime to bypass U.S. sanctions.The developer and former-hacker, Virgil Griffith, is accused of helping North Korea evade economic sanctions by delivering a speech during a Pyongyang blockchain conference
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Three men accused of passing themselves off as pastors to get churchgoers and other investors to put money into what prosecutors say was a $28 million Ponzi scheme have been indicted by a federal jury in Maryland. According to the indictment unsealed on Friday, Denni Jali, a South African citizen who
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Florida’s Southern District Court has been dealing with the Kleiman v. Wright case for well over two years and now the lawsuit is finally going to trial. A jury trial is set for July 6, 2020, in the Miami Division courthouse before Judge Beth Bloom. Meanwhile, Craig Wright, the
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