Craig Wright to Judge: “bonded courier” gave me keys to Satoshi’s 1M+ bitcoins
Does Craig Wright actually have Satoshi Nakamoto's billions? (via Brendan Sullivan)
Craig Wright to Judge: “bonded courier” gave me keys to Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1,100,111 bitcoins
If Craig Wright really is Satoshi Nakamoto, the documents he turned over in court today will prove it.
Craig Wright informed a judge today that the “bonded courier” he has long claimed will bring him the keys to Satoshi Nakamoto’s fortune and the right to bear the bitcoin creators name has arrived.
Wright is being sued by the estate of his late partner, Dave Kleiman, for half of a cache of 1,100,111 bitcoins believed to haver been mined at the beginning of the Bitcoin blockchain by its creator, the pseudonymous Nakamoto.
In a brief filing on Jan. 14, Wright’s attorney’s wrote: “Dr. Craig Wright files this Notice of Compliance with this Court’s Order dated January 10, 2020. Specifically, Dr. Wright notifies the Court that a third party has provided the necessary information and key slice to unlock the encrypted file, and Dr. Wright has produced a list of his bitcoin holdings, as ordered by the Magistrate Judge, to plaintiffs today.”
Wright’s claim to be Nakamoto has been widely denied, and one of the main arguments has been his inability to access this bitcoin cache. He has long claimed the private keys to those bitcoins were locked in an encrypted document known as the Tulip Trust. He said it would be returned to him by a “bonded courier” this month.
Updated 6:43 p.m. Jan. 14, 2020 with new image and links.
Updated 6:54 p.m. Jan. 14, 2020 with bitcoin price and links.
Leo Jakobson, Modern Consensus editor-in-chief, is a New York-based journalist who has traveled the world writing about incentive travel. He has also covered consumer and employee engagement, small business, the East Coast side of the Internet boom and bust, and New York City crime, nightlife, and politics. Disclosure: Jakobson owns no cryptocurrencies.
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