Some more documents uploaded this week. One is a timeline of all the times Craig referred to Dave as his "partner" (boring), and another is why Craig's subpoena for Kleiman's "encrypted and wiped" devices is unenforceable. Kind of interesting.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6309656/kleiman-v-wright/?page=5First, the subpoena imposes an undue burden on Plaintiff Ira Kleiman. Wright has publicly stated on several occasions that the Devices contain billions of dollars in bitcoin. Although Wright is wrong (lol), he is a high-profile and infamous figure in the cryptocurrency space. Ira should not be compelled to face the risks that come with transporting and possessing what people may (wrongly) believe contain the keys to $55 billion in bitcoin—especially where (i) the end game is to merely permit Wright to present irrelevant evidence to the jury and where (ii) that same end can be accomplished through exemplars and/or images of the Devices.
Second, Defendant gives away the game in the first two sentences of his motion. In short, after 24 months of discovery, over 225,000 documents exchanged, and 22 fact depositions taken, Defendant tacitly concedes that he has found no actual evidence that there is billions of dollars of bitcoin sitting on a bunch of hard drives and thumb drives found in Dave’s home after his death (Defendant attempts to conceal this admission behind his bold, conclusory declarations that these devices are critical to his defense).
Then later in the argument:
Wright, an infamous and high-profile figure in the cryptocurrency community, has, in this high-profile and closely watched case, taken the public position that the Devices contain billions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin. Plaintiffs dispute that unsupported rank speculation. That said, given the publicity surrounding the trial, and the sheer amount of money Wright claims is contained on the Devices, Mr. Kleiman is sincerely and justifiably concerned that he faces significant risks of being robbed, or worse, in transporting the Devices.
...If Wright wants to take the position that, based on his personal knowledge, David Kleiman stored the private keys to the bitcoin they jointly mined on the Devices, he is welcome to do so. But until he does, there is no evidence that the Devices contain private keys, Wright’s theory of relevance is wholly speculative, and the Devices are inadmissible.
The rest of the documents mainly have to do with the
prosecutor's plaintiff's rationale as to why Craig's transcripts from ATO hearings should be admissable in court.
Here's an interesting excerpt:
In 2014, the ATO was investigating Defendant’s companies to determine whether those entities had properly sought certain tax benefits. That investigation concerned, among other things, whether Defendant’s companies were entitled to millions of dollars in tax benefits in connection with their “acquisition” of intellectual property from W&K. Id. Defendant claimed that (1) he had paid millions of dollars in taxes as a result of his acquisition of W&K’s intellectual property, and (2) he and his companies were entitled to a tax refund for that amount. The relevant acquisition purportedly occurred when Defendant secured “Consent Judgments” against W&K in Australian court—the same consent judgments that Plaintiffs allege Defendant used to misappropriate their intellectual property assets. Thus, the ATO’s investigation concerned the validity of one of the same transactions that Plaintiffs challenge here.
...Defendant did not prevail in his dispute with the ATO... Indeed, not only did the ATO find that Defendant was not entitled to the tax benefits that he had claimed in connection with his “acquisition” of W&K’s intellectual property... but the ATO also imposed a $1.9 million penalty on Defendant for making “false or misleading statements” to the Australian government.
So it seems BSV is just a continuation of Craig's specialty of employment: investing massive amounts of time, thought and energy into a product never designed to work in the first place. He's obviously a smart fellow in some ways, probably could have made a pretty decent shitcoin of his own without having to attach the name of Bitcoin to it.
Oh and this is Craig giving his closing remarks at the Bitcoin SV conference, to a
thrilled crowd of believers.
After crashing to fresh lows against BTC shortly thereafter, the price of BSV enjoyed a nice 17% pump today.
Short 'em if you got 'em.
