Recently the MtGox civil rehabilitation trustee, Nobuaki Kobayashi, announced a six month delay in proceedings due to disapproved claims still being disputed. The trustee doesn't refer to it directly, but the elephant in the room causing this delay is Peter Vessenes' CoinLab, who after a failed partnership attempt with MtGox in 2012/2013 is now demanding an outrageous $16B USD from the MtGox civil rehabilitation estate. There have been various theories floating around how CoinLab could possibly be justifying this number, with little insight into their actual arguments, a problem not helped by CoinLab's attempts to seal official Japanese creditor records in order to conceal their actions. Recently though I acquired a copy of the last round of petitions to the Tokyo District Court, and have spent the last week dredging through the legal Japanese to get to the bottom of the situation.

As part of the ongoing lawsuit against Craig Wright by the relatives of Dave Kleiman and in response to a court order to reveal details of Wright's supposed bitcoin holdings (including a long hinted-at blind trust), a filing about Wright's supposed bitcoin holdings was recently unsealed. While the bitcoin addresses contained within are redacted, it turns out they're not hard to guess. Background Craig Wright has for years claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the unknown inventor of Bitcoin, through a complicated web of stories where it seems every piece of supposed corroborating evidence exposed to public scrutiny ends up being shown to be fraudulent in some way. To date, no one has moved any of Satoshi's bitcoins or signed any messages with his private keys since he disappeared. None of this seems to deter Wright's fans who follow his "Satoshi's Vision" (SV) fork of Bitcoin, to whom Wright's angry technobabble speeches are just evidence of a genius pla