Kleiman’s brother Ira brought the lawsuit on behalf of the estate in 2018, and said at the time that the bitcoin were worth more $10 billion.
Kleiman had requested a new trial on the grounds that Wright’s lawyers told jurors several times that the brothers were estranged, including by noting Ira had not seen David in over three years when he died in 2013.
The bitcoin at the heart of the case were supposedly mined by Satoshi Nakamoto, who wrote a white paper describing the framework for what would become the cryptocurrency.
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