Craig Wright calls himself to the stand in billion-dollar Bitcoin lawsuit

> It all stems from a year-long lawsuit initiated by the estate of Dave Kleiman, a computer scientist who, according to the complaint, helped Wright “invent” Bitcoin under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. The lawsuit claims that when Kleiman died in April 2013, Wright engaged in a scheme to deny Kleiman of 1.1 million bitcoin that the former business partners jointly owned.

This is comedy gold. A letter purportedly signed by Kleiman references a bizarre trust scheme involving a million bitcoin:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2644014/Tulip-Tru...

The judge's request is apparently based at least in part on this letter.

The letter references a "Key with ID C941FE6D," a PGP key Wright used to fabricate evidence of being Satoshi.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jpgq3y/satoshis-pgp-keys-...

As such, the letter seems fake as a $3 bill. Hilariously, the Kleiman family seems to consider it real. It's now being used to force Wright into proving he controls the corresponding private keys.

We've been here before back when Wright said he'd provide cryptographic proof of being Satoshi and furnished instead technobabble, mind games and deceit.

Instead of fleecing some technically illiterate folks out of cash, the consequences here for deceit are legal sanctions against Wright to varying degrees.

What goes around.