Oct. 5, 2022 - Stefan Matthews, CEO of Nchain - Norway Trial
Attorney: How did you come up with the 1.5 million dollars for the purchase of the IP?
Stefan: It was um, it was based on the overall, we've took an overall value of what we were prepared to put into a deal which was around about 15 million and then broke it down into its um component parts.
Attorney: This has nothing to do with the actual value of the IP of the companies?
Stefan: Well we couldn't determine that um at the time but we certainly did in the following six months with Baker McKenzie and 16 lawyers.
Attorney: The purchase price didn't change no?
Stefan: No, we split the purchase price up though between the various entities within the group
Attorney: Were you aware that what this IP had been purchased for during the previous years?
Stefan: I don't think I understand the question.
Attorney: Did you know how much the company paid for this IP?
Stefan: I know what had been invested in research programs.
Attorney: Part of the IP is software from Al Baraka bank isnt it and Siemens, that's part of the software?
Stefan: Within DeMorgan group, yes those two software components were part of the assets of the DeMorgan group but just because those assets um form part of the DeMorgan group doesn't mean that us as an investor or acquirer would value those on what their what the purchase price of them was.
Attorney: They were purchased for over value in your opinion?
Stefan: I'm not forming an opinion on that, but I can tell you that neither of those two pieces of software have been used in any way shape or form by Nchain at any stage.
April 23, 2014 - Craig Wright email to Ira
"Dave and I arranged for the sale of around 500,000 BTC so
that we could have access to core banking software." https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6309656/550/26/kleiman-v-wright/ Assets such as software owed to the estate or W&K should have been produced during discovery. It never was.
Did Craig forget to tell Calvin about the valuable Banking software? Nov. 4, 2019 - Calvin Ayre passes on buying Dave Kleiman estate
After deliberately wasting months of the estates time in settlement discussions,
"Ayre’s 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." https://web.archive.org/web/20191104152857 *It appears this good faith settlement wasn't so good or faithful after all. 2-years after Calvin allegedly determined that I didn't have rights to any software of value, Craig then testified at trial that I did.
Craig also testified that Dave assisted in sourcing the Bitcoin bank software.
Craig Wright: we paid for source code and -- that's why there's 140 years' worth of coding,
because the Saudi bank had thousands of staff. And we paid a
lot to get that source code so that we could modify it to make
a Bitcoin bank. So that's what we're talking about. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6309656/845/kleiman-v-wright/
pg. 43, line 24
Attorney: And on the right in
your email to Ira Kleiman you say: "Dave Kleiman took two
million lines of code that had in 2010, and transformed these
into a documented set of over six million lines of code." Does "transform" mean "buy" to you, Dr. Wright?
Craig Wright: Yes. Actually, when you put all that together, this is not
one program. We're not talking about a program. And as it
says on the document there, the way that it works is W&K to me,
international, no GST, like I claimed. And then me, my trust,
to the company, GST. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6309656/845/kleiman-v-wright/
pg. 48, line 5
Attorney: You sold all the intellectual property held by these
companies, including the intellectual property that could
expose Satoshi Nakamoto and core blockchain IP, correct?
Craig Wright: As I've been saying, yes, I sold the banking software. I
sold the exchange software. I hoped those companies would keep
building what I wanted to build. They haven't. I'm still
trying to convince people of that. I'm still working with
other companies to try and do it. https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6309656/845/kleiman-v-wright/
pg. 101, line 18
Nov, 15, 2021 - Craig Wright Trial Testimony:
"W&K had the rights and still has the rights to go out there and use that software to build an exchange. They could build something like Coin Base or Kraken. They could have a cryptocurrency exchange.
Coin Base which my software was better than even the unimproved stuff is now worth about a hundred billion US dollars." https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6309656/845/kleiman-v-wright/
Pg. 36
"The
simple answer here is all of the intellectual property that
Dave improved remains with W&K. All of the things he got
external parties to work on, not himself, remains with W&K. It
was never taken from it. It's still there. It can still be
taken and exploited by Ira if he wants." https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6309656/844/kleiman-v-wright/
Pg. 85