NEW YORK - A computer scientist who has claimed to be the inventor of Bitcoin largely prevailed on Monday (Dec 6) in a Florida jury trial over whether the estate of a former business partner deserved half of a Bitcoin cache worth now about US$54 billion (S$73.9 billion). The Miami jury cleared Mr Craig Wright on nearly all issues in.
A jury found that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright did not owe half of 1.1 million Bitcoins to the family of his one-time business partner, but he was ordered to pay $US100 million in damages.