The long and bitter legal struggle between Dave Kleiman’s estate and Australian computer scientist Craig Wright has taken a new twist, with the former’s legal team claiming Wright has the keys to an encrypted file that may contain the private keys to over BTC 820,000 (USD 7.5 billion) – as well as proof that the duo were working in partnership.
The Kleiman estate says that Kleiman, who died in April 2013, had been mining bitcoin in partnership with Wright, but that upon the former’s death, Wright has attempted to hold onto Kleiman’s share of funds – which should have been transferred to the estate.
Wright claims there was no such agreement. However, the Kleiman estate says that proof of the partnership is held in an encrypted file at the center of the case. And per a new legal filing, the estate says Wright is “refusing” to unlock the file and allow the court to see what lies within.
The estate’s lawyers wrote that “Wright has the ability to open the encrypted file, but won’t because it will contain evidence of the partnership and its bitcoin holdings.”
They added,
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