https://www.thecointribune.com/actualites/cest-officiel-aucune-clef-privee-bitcoin-dans-les-preuves-produites-par-craig-wright/It's official: no Bitcoin private key in the "evidence" produced by Craig Wright.
This time it is not the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision haters who claim this, but Craig Wright's lawyer himself: his client does not have the private keys that should have guaranteed him access to more than 1 million Bitcoins (BTCs).
Is this the end of the saga which, although it has become judicial in recent months, has long since resembled a bad telenovela? Given the personalities of the protagonists and the financial stakes involved, nothing is less certain.
A disappointing package
While the so-called "courier affair" seemed to have found some form of conclusion with the arrival last Tuesday (according to Craig Wright) of the famous envelope containing the evidence of his control of wallets containing more than 1.1 million BTC, it is in the absence of general surprise that we finally learn today that it is not so: nothing in the information received can attest to anything. Treasure Bitcoins are still inaccessible and Craig Wright is still devoid of any credibility.
If the revelation had been widely publicized the day after the supposed receipt, it is now Andres Rivero, Craig Wright's lawyer, who admits it: "The file he [Craig Wright] received contained no private keys."
Drowning out the procedure
Any shame drunk, one might wonder what advantage Craig - Faketoshi - Wright and his team of lawyers can gain by accumulating humiliations in front of the crypto community on the one hand, but also in court where he is currently confronting the heirs of his colleague Dave Kleiman, who died in 2013, with a potential hoard of 550,000 bitcoins (half of the 1.1 million units supposedly mined by Satoshi Nakamoto himself).
The answer is biblically simple: by drowning the proceedings in this way, on the fund, Craig Wright can make the judicial phase last long enough to continue his successful small business, as well as profit from the speculation surrounding his creation, the Satoshi Vision Bitcoin (BSV).
Thus, according to Mr. Rivero, the ball is now in the Kleiman estate's court, against a backdrop of incessant procedural nitpicking, which the American courts are particularly fond of.
In addition, and because it does not eat bread, the lawyer specified that his client still expected to receive the famous private keys "at a later date" specifying that the said keys could be either whole or divided into parts. Rivero, however, declined to discuss in any further detail WHO would currently have the keys and WHEN they might arrive. This is a practical stance that keeps the suspense intact for future episodes.