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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So I just had a fun interaction with the Florida Board of Bar Examiners.
Me: Hi, I'd like to file a public records request. To whom should I direct it?
FBBE: We don't have to comply with public records requests.
Me: Can you cite to the statute that exempts you from providing public records?
FBBE: If you send us a request we will reply with the statute and explanation.
Me: OK, so can I have an email address to which I can send this request?
There was another hearing yesterday in the $10B bitcoin dispute between Ira Kleiman and Craig Wright: law360.com/assetmanagemen…
This was not a continuation of the evidentiary hearing on possible sanctions -- that's set for Aug. 5. This was on Wright's motion for judgment on the pleadings.
He's arguing that the federal court does not have jurisdiction to handle the case because there's no complete diversity of citizenship. In other words, the plaintiffs need to have different citizenship than the defendants.
Craig Wright, the self-professed inventor of bitcoin, is testifying today in a West Palm Beach federal courtroom about why he hasn't been able to produce the public addresses of the bitcoin he's mined over the years.
He says he just can't get this information, and that public addresses wouldn't provide the plaintiff in this $10B suit against him with anything relevant.
He choked up as he told of how he wanted to create a cryptocurrency that did not fall to crime, but that he was unsuccessful. Others he worked with started Silk Road and Hydra, on which drugs, weapons and child pornography are traded and sold.