Kleiman v. Wright trial is reset to January 2021
Craig Wright trial in the Kleiman v. Wright case is postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns and legal proceedings.
On September 3, 2020, Kleiman v. Wright trial is reset to January 2021. Craig Wright trial in the Kleiman v. Wright case is postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19 concerns and legal proceedings.
For the Bitcoin community, which overwhelmingly rejected Wright's claims to be Bitcoin's creator, the postponement meant continued waiting for a trial that might subject Wright's assertions to rigorous legal scrutiny and cross-examination. The Kleiman lawsuit had been one of the few venues where Wright's extraordinary claims faced formal evidentiary standards and legal consequences rather than just social media criticism or community rejection.
Throughout pre-trial proceedings, Wright had provided testimony and evidence that many observers found implausible, contradictory, or suspicious, including elaborate stories about encrypted trusts containing vast Bitcoin holdings that he couldn't access and backdated documents that forensic analysis suggested had been created recently rather than during Bitcoin's early days.