A Story of ABCD: Alice, Bob, Craig and Dave — So Is Craig is Satoshi and Did He Partner with Dave?
In their classic paper on the RSA method, Rivest, Shamir and Adleman came up with the concept of A communicating with B. For this, they defined the actors of Alice and Bob. Bruce Schneier then defined more names that could be used within cybersecurity, including Craig (the cracker) and Dave (the fourth participant).
Now, we have a trail that involves Craig and Dave, and which could make Dave one of the richest people in the world. For this, there is currently a court battle and at its heart is bitcoins. This is a case of Dave Kleiman against Dr Craig Wright, and where Ira Kleiman — the brother of the late Dave Kleiman — is suing Dr Craig Wright for a share of between 550,000 and 1.1 million bitcoins, and for the intellectual property around Bitcoin.
The reward relates to the Bitcoin wallet created by Satoshi Nakamoto, and if the transactions within it were cashed in, the person involved would be the 15th richest person in the world, and worth over $55 billion. It would, though, require the associated private key used to sign the transactions to be revealed.
