The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has again postponed the hearing in the case of the self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin, Craig Wright, and the family of his former partner, Dave Kleiman. The order states.
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The parties filed a joint motion to extend the pretrial deadlines. This is not the first date change: initially the court scheduled July 6, 2020, but after several postponements it was moved to October 13.
Judge Beth Bloom decided to extend the pretrial proceedings through the end of December. She postponed the hearing itself to 2021.
Earlier Wright and Kleiman’s lawyers submitted a list of 36 witnesses for the case. Among the experts they included early Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen and cryptocurrency philosopher Andreas Antonopoulos.
In February 2018, Ira Kleiman, the brother of the late computer forensic expert and mathematician Dave Kleiman, filed a lawsuit against Craig Wright. The plaintiff accused Wright of appropriating 1.1 million BTC, purportedly belonging to Dave Kleiman, who is linked to the creation of Bitcoin.
In August 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ordered Wright to disgorge 500,000 BTC. The self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto declined to participate in the settlement of claims.
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