According to Ira Kleiman, his late brother David – a fellow computer expert and longtime friend of Wright – was the co-creator of Bitcoin and is entitled to a share of a trove of bitcoin currently valued at $66 billion.
Rosche told the jury that Wright was diagnosed over the phone by Klin who had, at the time of diagnosis, never met Wright in person.
After announcing in May 2016 that he would move Satoshi’s bitcoin – proving that he had access to Satoshi’s private keys and was therefore Satoshi – Wright failed to do so, writing, “I do not have the courage.
The still-unsolved mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity, and Wright’s seeming inability to retrieve the coins in his wallet, mean that recovering the coins may not be possible.
Furthermore, there are some in the crypto community who question whether the 1.1 million bitcoins at the heart of this case even exist.
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