Craig Wright allegedly schemed to use phony contracts and signatures to lay claim to bitcoins mined by colleague Dave Kleiman, another cryptocurrency adherent, who died in 2013, according to a lawsuit. Wilmington: Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed inventor of bitcoin, is accused of swindling more than $5 billion worth of the cryptocurrency and other assets from the estate of a computer-security expert. The pair controlled as many as 1.1 million bitcoins at the time of Kleiman’s death, according to the suit. In the filing, Kleiman’s brother includes what he says is email traffic between himself and Wright in which the entrepreneur indicates he may have been holding 300,000 of Kleiman’s bitcoins. Dave “mentioned that you had 1 million bitcoins in the trust and since you said he has 300,000 as his part,’’ the computer expert’s brother wrote.

Source: Mint February 27, 2018 09:33 UTC