{"id":3945,"date":"2021-12-07T09:36:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T08:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/07\/australian-man-craig-wright-wins-us-court-battle-for-bitcoin-fortune-worth-billions\/"},"modified":"2021-12-07T09:36:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T08:36:28","slug":"australian-man-craig-wright-wins-us-court-battle-for-bitcoin-fortune-worth-billions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/07\/australian-man-craig-wright-wins-us-court-battle-for-bitcoin-fortune-worth-billions\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian man Craig Wright wins US court battle for bitcoin fortune worth billions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida jury finds Wright, who claims to have invented the cryptocurrency, did not owe half of 1.1m bitcoins worth $50bn to another family<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Download the free Guardian app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who claims to be the inventor of bitcoin, has prevailed in a civil trial against the family of a deceased business partner that claimed it was owed half of a cryptocurrency fortune worth tens of billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>A Florida jury on Monday found that Wright did not owe half of 1.1m bitcoins to the family of David Kleiman. The jury did award US$100m in intellectual property rights to a joint venture between the two men, a fraction of what Kleiman\u2019s lawyers were asking for at trial.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/dec\/07\/australian-man-craig-wright-wins-us-court-battle-for-bitcoin-fortune-worth-billions\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a3e4de579a13e709b9705e1225804654b5e61e14\/1009_1_2530_1518\/master\/2530.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=f09f62ddc9d565539513ade5f55a6c51\" title=\"Australian man Craig Wright wins US court battle for bitcoin fortune worth billions\" \/>Florida jury finds Wright, who claims to have invented the cryptocurrency, did not owe half of 1.1m bitcoins worth $50bn to another family<br \/>\nDownload the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefing<\/p>\n<p>Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who claims to be the inventor of bitcoin, has prevailed in a civil trial against the family of a deceased business partner that claimed it was owed half of a cryptocurrency fortune worth tens of billions of dollars.<br \/>\nA Florida jury on Monday found that Wright did not owe half of 1.1m bitcoins to the family of David Kleiman. The jury did award US$100m in intellectual property rights to a joint venture between the two men, a fraction of what Kleiman\u2019s lawyers were asking for at trial.<br \/>\nSign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida jury finds Wright, who claims to have invented the cryptocurrency, did not owe half of 1.1m bitcoins worth $50bn to another family Download the free Guardian app; get our morning email briefing Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who claims to be the inventor of bitcoin, has prevailed in a civil trial against the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/07\/australian-man-craig-wright-wins-us-court-battle-for-bitcoin-fortune-worth-billions\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australian man Craig Wright wins US court battle for bitcoin fortune worth billions<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}