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Craig Wright Statement about Moving Satoshi Coins

Here is the official statement of Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright:

Yesterday, a transaction on the Core Coin (BTC) network involving coins that had been mined in February 2009 was moved for the first time, prompting inaccurate speculation about whether this transaction related to myself or my personal Bitcoin holdings. These coins are not my personal coins and I did not move them and as I have mentioned before I have no intent of dumping BTC or otherwise touching trust assets.

The list of Bitcoin addresses from my August 5, 2019 filing (which have been referenced online) was not produced as a representation of my Bitcoin holdings, as has been reported. Rather, this list was compiled as an exhaustive record of addresses that would most likely incorporate trust holdings based on the best information available to me at the time. The 2019 list was not stated to be an accurate representation of trust assets.

An accounting record of Bitcoin holdings that was associated with a company owned by the trust which mined Bitcoin in 2009 was submitted to the court on January 14, earlier this year, after the requisite information was received from the authorised representative of the trust. This enabled me to report these holdings to the court. That document remains under court-ordered seal, but I can confirm that the address from which yesterday’s transaction originated was not included in the final list that was submitted to the court.

While I would opt not to speculate on the origin of the coins or the parties involved in the transaction, I would be remiss not to note that despite Bitcoin being in its relative infancy in February 2009, it still attracted a number of people from computer science and cryptography circles – many of whom contributed their computing power to the network and subsequently earned block rewards, even if they were active only for a short period of time. Some of these people are known to me, many are not.

Due to the ongoing nature of the litigation, I will have no further comment at this time.

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