The long live mystery behind the creator of Bitcoin are finally beginning to surface. Craig Wright may have some explaining to do.
Please remember no one is guilty until proven guilty.
The upcoming United States District Court Southern District of Florida Case may reveal the truth behind the real creator of Bitcoin. This is my own personal interpretation of the documents after reading the entire case. The document helped to identify those who are believed to be behind the creation of Bitcoin and it also includes those who attempted to take credit for something that was not their own. I strongly recommend everyone interested in Bitcoin to read the original document as it provided great insight on the history and creation of Bitcoin.
The original case document can be found at the link below.
https://www.scribd.com/document/372445546/Bitcoin-Lawsuit#download
Craig Wright and Dave Kleiman were both involved in the creation of Bitcoin and they both accumulated hundreds of thousands of Bitcoins in the early days. Dave kept all his project and all Bitcoin related work separate from his family and revealed very little information about his "creation". In April 2013 Dave died after a long battle of MRSA. At this time none of Dave's family were not aware of his involvement in creating Bitcoin nor did they know how many Bitcoins he had accumulated over the years. Craig is now alleged of perpetrating a scheme to steal the Bitcoins that Dave owned and belonged to Dave's estate once he died. Dave's estate believes that Craig may have forged a series of contracts and forged Dave's signature in order take complete ownership of the Bitcoins Dave owned. Several documents are thought to of been backdated in order to create legitimacy within the contract. Just days following Dave's death, Craig emailed Dave's brother Ira, claiming Dave signed all property rights away in exchange for non-controlling share of a non-operation Australian company which he stated was worth "millions". He informed Ira that his estate would have the ability to sell Dave's stake in the company within the next few months. Then in 2015, the company is believed to of gone bankrupt due to Craig misleading the Australian Tax Office. Following the bankruptcy and Australian Tax Office investigation, Craig's home was raided forcing him to flee from Australia to London. In 2016 Craig publically revealed himself to be the alleged creator Bitcoin, under the pseudonymous name of Satoshi Nakamoto. Still to this date, he has never returned any of the mined Bitcoins belonging to Dave's estate.
History of Dave Kleiman
Dave Kleiman was born in 1967 and joined the U.S. Army in 1986 as a helicopter technician. Several years after severing in the Army, Dave was in a motorcycle accident which left him physically handicapped and wheelchair! bound for the rest of his life. Following his accident Dave became interested in computer forensics and secure network infrastructures. He began working in the Information security sector in 1990 and was a frequent speaker at national security conferences along with a regular contributor to many security related newsletters, websites and forums. He was a member of several computer security organizations and was also a Secure Member and Sector Chief for Information Technology at the FBI's InfraGard and a Director of Education at International Information Systems Forensics Association. He co-authored and was the technical editor of numerous publications, including Perfect Passwords: Selection, Protection and Authentication, and Security Log Management: Identifying Patterns in the Chaos. Dave was hospitalized in 2010 and was frequently in and out of the hospital due to infected MRSA sores. On March 22, 2013, Dave was nearing death and although against medical advice he signed himself out of the hospital. A close friend asked Dave if the Hospital had discharged him and he replied with "No… I told the doctors to go fuck themselves." On April 26, 2013 Dave passed away, still without fully explaining his entire involvement in the creation of Bitcoin.
History of Dave and Craig
Dave and Craig both had a longtime interest in cyber security, digital forensics and what the future of money would become. They began exchanging ideas on an online cryptography forum beginning in 2003. For several years the two exchanged ideas on various topics. In March 2008 just a few months before the release of Satoshi's paper on Bitcoin protocol. Craig emailed Dave asking for help editing his paper which he planned to release later in the year. Craig said he was working on a new form of electronic cash and needed Dave to edit the paper. He also asked Dave to, "aid [him] in building the idea". For the next few months Dave and Craig collaborated together and worked on the Bitcoin operation. Then on January 12, 2009 Dave and Craig sent each other along with two others Bitcoin which was recorded on the blockchain. In November 2009, for the first time Dave revealed information to Ira that he was working on creating "digital money". From the years 2008 to 2013, Craig and Dave mined over a million Bitcoins. Dave was listed as the sole member of the LLC. Dave passed away in April 2013. On May 2, 2016 several months after Wired and Gizmodo publications, Craig claimed to be Satoshi and said Dave was also involved in the creation.
Dave formed a business called W&K Defense Research on February 14, 2011. He was listed as the sole member of the LLC and had his home address as the registered place of business location. Following Dave's death, an email from Craig was sent to Ira on February 15, 2014 informing him that Dave only owned 50% of the company not 100%. Craig produced documents stating that W&K engaged in a business "Known as Bitcoin Mining" and that some of the projects were intellectual property owned by W&K. Less than 1 year after Dave's death W&K was reinstated by Uyen Nguyen who then removed Dave as the registered agent and listed himself along with an entity named "Dr. Coin-Exch Pty Ltd.".
Although the exact number of Bitcoins mined by Dave are not completely certain, in 2014 Australian Tax Office meeting with Craig provided evidence Dave and Craig mined over 1.1 million Bitcoins.
Craig drafted and backdated, "at least three contracts to create a paper trail reporting that Dave's Bitcoins were to be transferred, sold and/or returned to himself." The signatures looked nothing like Dave's signatures and are near identical to an online font called Otto.
Craig admitted that they were computer generated and that he would provide additional evidence for validity of the signatures but still has not done so. The signatures were not witnessed or notarized by anyone. In order to cover up his fraud, Craig sent an email to Dave's father informing him that "your son Dave and I are two of the three key people behind Bitcoin. If you have any of Dave's computer systems, you need to save the file named "wallet.dat". This was the first time Dave's family learned of Craig. Ira reviewed the files and quested the discrepancies in the contracts between W&K and Craig including the signatures. Craig informed him that he "did the actions to make sure that the court signed off on what Dave and I planned". Ira was promised to be paid out of what was owed to Dave's estate based on the arrangement between Dave and himself. Craig currently severs as a Chief Scientist of a UK company called nChain where he has hundreds of patents related to Bitcoin and blockchain technology.
With the exact number of Bitcoins still waiting to be determined by Craig, Dave's estate is entitled to at least 300,000 Bitcoins. Additionally, the 1,100,111 Bitcoin mined by W&K or 550,055.5 if the 50% ownership is proven valid but this is up to the court to determine if the documents along with signatures are in fact valid. Today, February 26 2018 according to coinmarketcap.com one Bitcoin is worth $10,456. If the court determines that Dave's estate is entitled to all 1,400,111 Bitcoins, then at the current exchange rate $14,639,560,616 may be returned to the family. (1,400,111 * 10,456) = $14,639,560,616.