Craig Wright tries to prove he is Satoshi. But by making that claim, the Kleiman estate has claimed they have right on half of Satoshi's BTC. That's half of about 1.1 million BTC. Ooops, the choice Craig Wright had was:
- Admit he is not Satoshi and lose face
- Get into a lawsuit with the Kleiman estate over the half a million BTC.
In his genius, Craig Wright decided to go for option B. He fought the claim, but ended up needing to get into a settlement to pay half of the BTC he claimed to own. It is quite likely Craig Wright is simply pretending to be Satoshi and can't even access the 1.1 million BTC that is stored in the Satoshi addresses. And guess what? He just happened to admit he can't access the Satoshi funds. Does this mean he admits that he is not Satoshi? Nope. More excuses and the lawsuit continues.