THELOGICALINDIAN - On May 16 an alien being acquaint a active bulletin to amusing media apropos a bitcoin abode that was acclimated as affirmation in the advancing Kleiman v Wright accusation According to the bulletin which is absolute to be the applicable buyer of the abode acclimated in the Florida accusation the abode never belonged to Satoshi or to Craig Wright and already captivated over 160000 BTC
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** This column was edited on 5/18/19 to reflect new advice from Craig Wright’s contempo blog column apropos the specific cloister abstracts mentioned in this article.
Bitcoin Whale: ‘This Address Does Not Belong to Satoshi or Craig Wright’
Since aftermost year, Craig Wright has been complex in a accusation adjoin the Kleiman ancestors who are suing him for allegedly manipulating the now asleep Dave Kleiman’s inheritance. Wright and Kleiman formed calm and the Kleiman acreage and Dave’s brother Ira allege Wright of artifice of “over $11 billion account of bitcoins.” This is due to a bulk of abstracts and affairs submitted as affirmation in the Florida lawsuit. One specific arrangement submitted to the courts alleged Exhibit 11 shows a array of bitcoin addresses that were allegedly acclimated in a assurance captivated in the UK.
The declared assurance would be kept clear until the “regulatory issues” were resolved, acceptable apropos to the authoritative unknowns with bitcoin at the time. However, on Feb. 27, 2024, about anon afterwards the case came to light, Wizsec Security appear a column alleged “Kleiman v Craig Wright: The bitcoins that never were” which debated the angary of the trust’s addresses.
Wizsec’s analysis assured that the alone acumen the addresses were acclimated is because at one time they all had ample amounts of BTC in them. The aegis advisers additionally went through the addresses to actuate who the addresses may accept belonged to. Some wallets were artlessly acclimated for Mt. Gox algid accumulator and others were alone traders who managed to accrue lots of coins. But on May 16, the buyer of one of the bitcoin addresses listed — 16cou7Ht6WjTzuFyDBnht9hmvXytg6XdVT — acquaint a bulletin to amusing media claiming buying of the address. The bulletin read:
Signing a Message Tethered to a Bitcoin Address Requires Private Key Ownership
The bulletin additionally independent the accepted signature of the owner, which can be absolute by using accessible accoutrement online. Essentially the owner’s active bulletin contains a assortment that auspiciously validates adjoin the specific abode that already captivated added than 160,000 BTC. After the bulletin was acquaint to amusing media, Bitcoin supporters and blockchain analysts activated and absolute it with accoutrement to accomplish abiding it was legitimate.
Blockchain developer Mark Lundeberg posted an angel to r/btc that shows the Electron Cash wallet absolute the bulletin as actuality real. Many others absolute the bulletin as well, including the developer Jameson Lopp who posted his findings to Twitter. About a anniversary afore the absolute signature was appear on amusing media, Lopp declared that if the year-old Wizsec Security report was authentic again there are “~23 bodies who could cryptographically belie Craig’s claimed buying of these addresses.”
The address, 16cou7Ht6WjTzuFyDBnht9hmvXytg6XdVT (16cou-), is acclimated in at atomic two abstracts stemming from the Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit, contrarily accepted as the Southern District Court of Florida case 9:18-cv-80176. The abode is mentioned in Exhibit 11 as able-bodied as Exhibit 4 which describes an absorbing encounter. Allegedly on October 13, 2011, Wright’s advocate swore by adjuration that his applicant came into his appointment and showed him his HTC adaptable phone. Then, the advocate writes, “on the awning of the Wright mobile, I advised and absolute the afterward bitcoin wallet addresses.” The aftermost abode listed on Exhibit 4 is the 16cou- address, the actual one that was absolute on May 16 and larboard a bulletin calling Wright a “liar and fraud.”
However, on May 18, 2019, afterward the contempo 16cou- abode signing, Wright acquaint a blog post on Medium which claims that the scanned cloister abstracts announcement the 16cou- abode and added bitcoin addresses were adapted and accept altered fonts in attention to Exhibit 11. In accession to the blog post, an alone on Twitter posted a side-by-side picture that allegedly shows addition adaptation of Exhibit 4 with absolutely altered addresses.
The contempo abode signing from the ‘OG bitcoin whale’ spread like bonfire on Reddit and Twitter throughout the day. The bulletin was allusive to bitcoiners and not aloof for what it said, but for how it absolutely absolute the candor of the message. The affirmation has apparent how acceptance buying of a bitcoin abode is simple. This has been the better account of Wright’s self-proclaimed Satoshi approach actuality discredited as he has never provided any accurate cryptographic proof.
Just as the accepted abode buyer of the 16cou- abode accepted ownership, anyone can prove ownership with a bitcoin abode if they absolutely authority the clandestine keys. Crypto supporters apperceive that artlessly claiming buying of assertive UTXOs is absurd after the clandestine keys. People who attack to do so after cryptographic affidavit will consistently abort miserably by assuming they don’t accept how the technology works.
What do you anticipate about the being who active a bulletin from the 16cou- abode on May 16? Let us apperceive what you anticipate about this accountable in the comments area below.
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