Shortly after Judge Reinhart issued this Order, on September 11, 2019, the parties reached
an agreement in principle to settle the case. Discovery was abated for nearly two months as the
parties worked together to document their agreement. Then, on October 30, and without warning,
Plaintiffs were informed Craig could no longer finance the settlement, and that he was terminating
the settlement efforts....no shit

yep tl;dr
Faketoshi-let's settle i got this dude with big pockets
Kleiman-OK
Ayre-Ohh i wanted to settle but i investigated and found out that CSW is already my little bitch and i already own everything, oops silly me. good luck collecting on 50% of $0, i'm out
Kleiman-WTF you think we're idiots!?! Then lets drag you and nChain into the case, and see what Judge has to say about all this
Ayre-
pooping his pants, and thinking how much more it'll cost him to settleI was NOT negotiating a settlement as I am not a party to the case...I was investigating the potential to buy the assets of the estate.
-Calvin Ayre @
https://twitter.com/calvinayre/status/1191324328278863872In August, a Florida magistrate issued a non-binding statement that Kleimans estate was entitled to 50% of the Bitcoin (BTC) mined by the Wright & Kleiman partnership up to December 31, 2013, as well as 50% of any intellectual property (IP) co-developed by Wright & Kleiman prior to Kleimans death in April 2013. There is no actual evidence of a partnership that could be found by lawyers researching on behalf of Ayre.
Following the statement, Ayre commenced good-faith negotiations to acquire the Kleiman estate based on public disclosures that the estate held valuable IP under U.S. law. Ayres attorneys have since determined that all of the IP claimed by the estate was created following Daves death and thus lies outside the scope of the non-binding statement.
Of the IP in question, Ayres attorneys concluded that the only IP on which Kleiman collaborated with Wright was the original Bitcoin code, which was released to the world as open source software in 2009.
-Calvin Ayre's blog @
https://coingeek.com/calvin-ayre-passes-on-buying-dave-kleiman-estate-because-it-holds-no-assets/...revealed the extent to which nChains Chairman
Stefan Matthews and nChain investor Calvin Ayre participated in facilitating Craigs unlawful
taking of, and capitalizing on, W&Ks (and Dave Kleimans) intellectual property. 4 They have
also revealed that Nchain has acquired, with full knowledge of Plaintiffs potential claims, much of
the IP at issue in this case. Furthermore, new documents produced in mid-December 2019 show
that Craig signed a power of attorney agreement in August 2016 that gave nChain the power to
take any steps or do any thing that nChain in its absolute discretion considers desirable in
connection with the IP nChain purchased from Craig, including controlling any litigation over
the intellectual property at issue in this case.
Everyone knows that CSW is broke and is on Ayre's life support, CSW has no private keys so best Kleiman's lawyers can hope for is to annoy Ayre and nChain enough to at least get some settlement.