As per the decision of a Florida jury, announced on Monday Australian computer scientist and businessman Craig Wright did not owe 1.1 m BTC to the family of cyber forensics David Kleiman.
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Court decided that Wright must pay 100 m in punitive damages over intellectual properspecialistty rights to a joint venture between the 2 men, WK Info Defense Research llc. WK will receive the amount directly and not the Kleimans.
Wright, who claims to be the creator of BTC, was accused of being obliged to pay huge sums of money to the family of his coworker. David Kleiman passed away in April 2013. His family with the leadership of the brother Ira Kleiman says that Wright and Kleiman were friends and invented BTC together. They initiated the case in 2018 during this time over 800 court filings were submitted.
The subject of the trial was 11 M bitcoins valued at around 50 bln at today's rates. It is the number of original coins to be created via mining; they could belong only to a person or organization who participated in the process of the coins creation from the very start. In 2016 Craig Wright announced he's the actual Satoshi Nakamoto providing some technical proof related to cryptographic keys.
Talking after trial, Wright said he's pleased with the results and is going to change the world with digital cash. Whether Wright is the real creator of BTC or not still remains a mystery.