The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has again postponed the hearing in the case of the self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright and the family of his former partner, Dave Kleiman. The ruling explains the postponement.<\/p>\n
The parties filed a joint motion to extend the pretrial deadlines. This is not the first change of date: the hearing was originally scheduled for July 6, 2020, after several delays it was moved to October 13, and then moved to 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n Judge Beth Bloom extended the deadline for disclosure of evidence to August 31, and the pretrial proceedings to September 14. The hearing itself was moved to November 1.<\/p>\n According to the document, on May 11 the court will review the status of the case.<\/p>\n In February 2018, Ira Kleiman, the brother of the late computer forensic scientist and mathematician Dave Kleiman, filed suit against Craig Wright.<\/p>\n The plaintiff accused Wright of misappropriating 1.1 million BTC, believed to have belonged to Dave Kleiman, who is linked to the creation of Bitcoin.<\/p>\n In August 2019, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida ordered Wright to pay 500,000 BTC. The self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto declined to participate in the settlement agreement. The proceedings were resumed.<\/p>\n In May 2020, 145 early Bitcoin addresses signed a statement accusing Wright of fraud and perjury. He claimed that these addresses belonged to him.<\/p>\n In June 2020, Wright and Kleiman’s lawyers submitted a list of 36 witnesses in the case. Among the experts were early Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen and crypto-philosophy advocate Andreas Antonopoulos.<\/p>\n In September 2020, the court denied<\/a> Wright’s motion for expedited proceedings. Earlier, he had argued that the statute of limitations had expired and the plaintiff could not prove an oral agreement.<\/p>\n gov.uscourts.flsd.521536.651.0<\/a> by ForkLog<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n