A jury has been seated, and the parties have just laid out their cases in opening statements.
Ira Kleiman's team laid out a timeline from 2008 until today and showed a number of emails and statements in which Craig Wright describes Dave Kleiman as a business partner with whom he mind bitcoin.
But Kleiman's team says Wright's story changed after the filing of the lawsuit in 2018, when Wright began adamantly denying any partnership other than a friendship with Dave Kleiman
Wright's attorneys argued that there is no direct evidence of a business partnership and there are no emails or conversations between DK and CW about mining bitcoin.
It appears Wright's team will lean heavily on his autism diagnosis to explain how his statements might be misconstrued. They called him a genius who might seem strange to everyone and who has been treated like a freak for much of his life.
They also pointed to the fact that Ira Kleiman wiped clean many of his brother's hard drives and devices after his death.
Now, first up on the witness stand is bitcoin and blockchain expert Andreas Antonopoulos, who will attempt to explain some of the technology to the jurors
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