Australian who says he invented bitcoin ordered to hand over up to $5bn
by Josh Taylor from Technology | The Guardian on (#4P3P5)
US court orders Craig Wright to share cryptocurrency haul with the estate of American programmer David Kleiman
The Australian man who claimed to have invented cryptocurrency bitcoin has been ordered to hand over half of his alleged bitcoin holdings, reported to be worth up to $5bn.
The IT security consultant Craig Wright, 49, was sued by the estate of David Kleiman, a programmer who died in 2013, for a share of Wright's bitcoin haul over the pair's involvement in the inception of the cryptocurrency from 2009 to 2013.
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