Deposition of Craig Wright’s Wife Shows Little Understanding of Bitcoin Private Keys

Meanwhile, a deposition stemming from Craig Wright’s wife, Ramona Watts, shows that she has little understanding of how Bitcoin works after being married to the self-proclaimed ‘cryptocurrency inventor’ for years. Ira Kleiman, the brother of the now-deceased Dave Kleiman, is suing Craig Wright for allegedly manipulating Dave’s ostensible bitcoin holdings worth $5.1 billion, at the time of the original filing on February 14, 2018.

“This is my life’s work, we’re going to have to make sure there are certain rules to this trust so that the bitcoin can only be spent for certain things,” Wright allegedly said to his wife eight years ago, according to the written testimony from Watts. When Brenner asked Watts about not being able to spend the coins because they don’t have the “full private keys,” she said that she thinks there are other ways of spending the bitcoins.

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