Thread by @CarolinaBolado

Ira Kleiman is on the stand now in the Kleiman v. Wright trial, telling jurors about his communications with Craig Wright as well as with the Australian Tax Office

He first reached out to Craig Wright in Feb. 2014 saying that he had heard his brother Dave had worked with Wright. "I just think it would be cool to know that David played a part in creating something so incredible."

Craig's replied in an email to Ira that Dave was involved in the bitcoin white paper. "He had the vistomail account, I had the gmx one."

Another email in March 2014 from Craig to Ira: "Dave could edit his way through hell and back. I am not a team player. I am a terrible boss and slave driver, but with Dave I was far more. Satoshi was a team. Without the other part of that team, he died."

Ira got an email from the ATO April 15, 2014 with a list of questions about W&K Info Defense Research, asking things like if he knew of legal actions Wright had filed against W&K in Australia

and if Kleiman had received a AU$40 million bond from Wright to fund W&K projects

Ira reached out to Craig and said he'd reviewed some of the W&K contracts and said it looked like a "lopsided contractual exchange" in which assets flowed from W&K to Wright

In another email to Craig Apr 24 2014 he asked how many bitcoins the existing mining operation was generating. Wright's response: "When Dave died, I lost the ability to access all of this. Then it is also not as cost effective to mine now as it was."

Ira is now telling jurors that he offered to have Wright come and examine/decrypt his brother's hard drives after his death, but Wright never took him up on it.

Ira says Dave never mentioned much about bitcoin, except once at Thanksgiving 2009, when Ira says Dave told him he was working on "making his own money." Dave explained it was digital money and that he was working with a rich foreign guy.

Dave allegedly scribbled the bitcoin logo on the back of a card to show his brother. After Dave's death, Ira emailed Craig and told him about this. He said he had told Dave he should partner with this foreign guy but was met with a blank look.

Craig replied in an email on May 20 2014: "We did partner ;)"

No further questions from the plaintiffs, now on to cross examination

First thing Wright's attorney asks is whether that Thanksgiving 2009 meeting was the last time he saw his brother. Ira says he's not sure -- it's the last significant meeting but he may have seen him after that.

Wright will likely focus on this, the brothers' relationship, arguing that they were not that close.

Defense attorney says Wright never gave him anything in writing that they had a 50/50 split in profits. Ira says he has an email from Wright that says he and Dave were 50/50 partners in W&K. But...where is this email?

Wright's attorney is asking if Ira found any emails between Dave and Craig describing details of their partnership, saying they were 50/50 partners, etc. Answer is no.

We're digging into the Thanksgiving 2009 story now. Wright's attorney points out that Dave told Ira he was making something bigger than Facebook, but Ira never talked to him again about it.