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The brother of Dave Kleiman, a computer security expert who died in 2013, alleged that the late Florida man worked with Wright to create and mine Bitcoin in its early years. As a result, the plaintiffs claimed the estate was entitled to half of a cache of as many as 1.1m Bitcoins worth some $70b, which are thought to be held by Satoshi.
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“Many years ago, Craig Wright told the Kleiman family that he and Dave Kleiman developed revolutionary Bitcoin based intellectual property,” he said in a statement. “Despite those admissions, Wright refused to give the Kleimans their fair share of what Dave helped create.”
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