Yesterday, Craig Wright’s attorney confirmed that Wright does not own – or even claim to own – the private keys that could be used as the key to decrypt the $8 billion in bitcoin that Satoshi Nakamoto exploited in the early days of bitcoin.

Wright filed a statement in the Southern District of Florida last Tuesday night confirming that he had received information to unlock an encrypted file of the thousands of public Bitcoin addresses he claims to own.

Wright previously said under the section, that the “encrypted file” exists, and contains both a list of public addresses and private keys.

There were news reports that Wright had received the file holder that would decrypt, and it was expected that Wright had received the private keys.

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But his lawyer said today that was not the case.

Andres Rivero, partner at the law firm Rivero Mistry and Craig Wright’s attorney, told Source:

The file you received did not contain private keys.

However, Wright still expected to receive the keys at a later time.

The keys may come complete or divided into parts.

But he declined to discuss details of who had the keys and when they might arrive.

Wright gets a break in court:

For over a year now, Wright has been embroiled in a lawsuit with Ira Kleiman, brother of the late Dave Kleiman, who claims that the two former business partners mined Bitcoin in its early days.

Wright disagrees and asserts that he was the only miner.

The Kleiman family is suing Wright for half a million bitcoins he claims to own, worth $8 billion at today’s prices.

While Wright was initially asked to hand over half the price, the decision has been overturned and the case will now go to court, but according to attorney Rivero, the response was a blow to Wright.

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And he said:

The important thing in the ruling is that it allows us to appear in court to prove that there is no partnership

The pre-judgment of the vacated justice of the peace determines the facts of the case.

A district court judge has cleared those rulings and has now left those questions open to the jury.

Rivero argued that the burden of proof now fell on Kleiman, who would need to prove that the partnership existed.

He is confident that they will bring out the evidence.

Rivero added in his statement:

We went to everyone we could find, a close friend or partner of Kleiman, and we took their words under oath and no one supported the claim that Kleiman is the co-inventor of Bitcoin.

When asked how Wright performed in court, given the investigative judge’s initial ruling that was subsequently invalidated that he committed perjury, Rivero said:

Obviously, and in our case it is important that our client give an absolutely honest testimony, but the big issue will be what evidence they will give.

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You can’t beat something with nothing, and that’s the problem they face.

The case is still open:

The court case appeared to be nearing completion when Judge Bruce E. Reinhart recommended that Wright hand over half of his bitcoin fortune last August.

The judge also found that Wright committed perjury and said he should pay Kleiman’s attorneys.

However, this was overruled by District Court Judge Beth Bloom who said Wright was solely responsible for the fees, according to Wright’s attorney:

The only part of the ruling that stands after Judge Bloom’s decision is that Wright is late and is subject to a fee.

If you have read Judge Bloom’s order, you will find that she found that the testimony given by Steve Shaders which was a probabilistic estimate of his public addresses, was a good faith effort to comply.

He added:

He’s still being charged but that’s the only thing he’s exposed to.

Bloom then gave Wright time to allow The Mysterious Courier to access the public address list.

Wright later revealed to the court that this information had arrived, and provided the addresses – all 16404 – to the Kleiman building.

As a result, the case is now progressing to trial, although Kleiman requested a 90-day extension to consider the titles and proceed with the case.

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