Craig Wright wins in U.S. appeals court over multi-billion-dollar Bitcoin dispute
Craig Wright, claiming to be Bitcoin’s creator, won a notable victory in a U.S. Appeals Court, sparking renewed discussions in the cryptocurrency community. Craig Wright, who claims to have created Bitcoin, recently won a big court case in the U.S. Appeals Court. The case was regarding Bitcoin that he and the late David Kleiman mined together over ten years ago. The court decided that Wright and Kleiman were not in a legal partnership. Now led by David’s brother Ira, the Kleiman family could not disprove the original court ’s ruling, and also had difficulty proving that Wright was obfuscating attempts at carrying out the legal process, and thus charges were dismissed. The ruling confirms a decision made by a jury in Florida in 2021, in which the jury decided if the Kleiman family had the right to half of the Bitcoin (BTC) fortune, worth up to $36 billion per Wright’s request for punitive damages. The court ruled that Wright’s lawyers erred in digging in to the Kleiman brothers