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Miami Bitcoin Trial: Defendant Wins Dispute over $50B in Bitcoin

by moonlighter on 12/6/21, 8:15 PM with 15 comments

• by louloulou on 12/6/21, 9:46 PM

  Craig Steven Wright is a liar and a fraud. It is only due to the fact that our society is so scientifically and technologically illiterate that he is still on anyone's radar in 2021.

  Here are a bunch of signed messages to that affect - signed with keys he claimed to control in court:

  https://craigwrightisnotsatoshi.com/

  Feel free to verify the signatures. This is stronger evidence than Faketoshi has ever provided.

• by ckastner on 12/6/21, 8:52 PM

  This is hilarious. So Craig Wright, in his continuing claim to be Satoshi Nakamoto (yet still refusing to prove it trivially), has -- naturally -- also claimed to own all of the Bitcoin that only Satoshi Nakamoto could have mined.

  Somebody claimed half of that and lost. But $100m worth of intellectual property rights were awarded to some venture, meaning that Wright might owe someone a great deal of money now.

  Well, according to the article, "Wright said he would prove his ownership if he were to win at trial", so I guess that will be finally settled soon.

• by lawn on 12/6/21, 8:53 PM

  Craig Wright is one of the biggest charlatans in the crypto world, and that says something.

• by jazzyjackson on 12/6/21, 11:42 PM

  > The case tried in federal court in Miami was highly technical, with the jury listening to explanations of the intricate workings of cryptocurrencies as well as the murky origins of how Bitcoin came to be.

  Where would one go to read the court proceedings? I’d like to know how this was all laid out to the jury.