NEW YORK (AP) - Craig Wright, a computer scientist who claims to be the inventor of Bitcoin, prevailed in a civil trial verdict Monday against the family of a deceased business partner that claimed it was owed half of a cryptocurrency fortune worth tens of billions.A Florida jury found that Wright did not owe half of 1.1 million Bitcoin to the family of David Kleiman.
The jury did award $100 million in intellectual property rights to a joint venture between the two men, a fraction of what Kleiman's lawyers were asking for at trial.RELATED: What is cryptocurrency?"This was a tremendous victory for our side," said Andres Rivero of Rivero Mestre LLP, the lead lawyer representing Wright.David Kleiman died in April 2013 at the age of 46.