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A computer scientist claiming he created bitcoin will hold onto $54 billion of the cryptocurrency after civil lawsuit
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Craig Wright, a computer scientist who claims to be the creator of bitcoin, will be able to keep about $54 billion of the cryptocurrency following a Florida jury's decision in a civil lawsuit, but will have to pay $100 million related to a breach of intellectual property, news reports said Monday.
A federal jury in Miami on Monday rejected six out of seven claims brought against Wright by the family of his former and now-deceased business partner, David Kleiman. The case centered on a cache of roughly 1.1 million bitcoins belonging to bitcoin's creator, who is widely known as the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto.
Wright since 2016 has claimed to be Nakamoto, the person behind the October 2018 bitcoin whitepaper. But
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