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2016: Craig Wright was recognized in creation of bitcoin
In May, 2016 Australian Craig Wright in an interview of BBC was recognized in creation of bitcoin. He confirmed the participation using the electronic signature which signed the very first bitcoins in 2009.
 | There are a lot of invented stories, and it is not pleasant to me that other people can suffer from it. I do not want publicity. I want to work and continue to do what I do. I do not need money, the glory is not necessary, the general love is not necessary. I just want that I was left alone — Wright said. |  |
The entrepreneur submitted the application for a design of the rights to the early code of cryptocurrency and the technical specification on its concept, however in the American patent office did not begin to register the request.
2019: Fine of $4 billion
At the end of August, 2019 the court of the western district Palm-Bich in Florida (USA) obliged Craig Wright to pay 410 thousand bitcoins (at the time of passing a verdict it is about $4 billion) to family of the late business partner Dave Kleiman.
Kleiman was a computer criminalist and the mathematician. He on an equal basis with Wright was called the probable creator of bitcoin. Kleiman's relatives took legal action with the statement that after his death Craig Wright appropriated the partner's bitcoins.
On judicial listening Wright said that he does not know where there are all bitcoins, and has no access to them, however the judge considered these indications false.
It is noted that the court did not begin to understand whether really Wright is the creator of the main cryptocurrency known under a name of Satosi Nakamoto. But Wright's lawyer reported that court's decision confirms that it is the same person.
Earlier in court Craig Wright said that he transferred to Kleiman key information without which it will be difficult to find digital purses. Then he specified that he stopped work on bitcoin as the currency was used by criminals for carrying out safe transactions.[1]
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