Suit brought by former coding partner’s family alleges Craig Wright stole bitcoins and mental property Craig Wright,the Australian man who claimed to have invented bitcoin, is being sued for more than $10bn ($7.2bn) by the family of his former commerce partner.
The lawsuit, or first reported by tech site Motherboard,alleges that Wright mined bitcoins together with Dave Kleiman, a programmer who died in 2013, and after which time Wright “perpetrated a scheme to “seize Dave’s bitcoins”. The plaintiff representing Dave Kleiman’s estate,Kleiman’s brother Ira, admits that the total amount of bitcoin in question is unknown – but says it is likely to be between 300000 and 1.1m.
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Source: guardian.co.uk