Three-judge panel says Craig Wright wasn't in partnership with David Kleiman
A jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida ruled that friends David Kleiman and Craig Wright never formalized a partnership to develop the original Bitcoin protocol and mine some 1.1 million bitcoin. As a result, jurors said, there is insufficient legal grounds to demand that the two men split half of the purported billions of dollars worth of bitcoin. That is, of course, if Craig Wright even controls those bitcoin — which is highly doubtful. The estate of David Kleiman appealed the jury’s decision that no partnership existed to the US 11th Circuit Appellate Court. However, 11th Circuit judges affirmed the Floridian jury ruling. David Kleiman passed away in 2013. His estate is managed by David’s surviving brother Ira Kleiman, who argued that Wright transferred intellectual property from W&K Info Defense Research LLC. W&K was co-founded by Craig Wright and Kleiman, to organizations controlled by Wright in a scheme to steal up to 1.1 mi...