Cryptocurrencies
Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor Accused of Swindling $5 Billion of Cryptocurrency
- Craig Wright sued over $5 billion Bitcoin mined by colleague
- Computer-security expert’s family lays claim to assets
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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.
Wright, who claimed in 2016 that he created the computer-based currency under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, 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 filed by Kleiman’s brother.