The Faketoshi Tale of 1Feex
Craig Wright has a long, long history with 1Feex…
Since late 2013.
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Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6309656/829/60/kleiman-v-wright/
Written by Arthur van Pelt
ABOUT EDITS to this article: as more material might become available
after publication of this article, it will have edits and updates every now
and then. In that sense, this article can be considered a work in progress,
to become a reference piece for years to come.
Pictured above is a paper wallet for the 1Feex address. A paper wallet is an
offline mechanism for storing Bitcoin, to keep one’s Bitcoin holdings safe
from cyberattacks, malware or other internet theft. The image shows, at first
glance, a genuine paper wallet, with Craig Wright’s driving license,
apparently attached to the paper wallet to give it more authenticity and
credibility, as they were used in the early days of Bitcoin. But what does the
image show at second glance?
Find out in this article, where we make a rundown in historical order of all the
currently known occasions and events where Craig Wright, the most well
known Satoshi Nakamoto cosplayer due to the mindboggling number of
debunks of his false claims and sloppy forgeries, used the 1Feex address in
his Bitcoin scam history that started after the death of Dave Kleiman in April
2013.
Let’s start with the inception of the 1Feex address.
March 1, 2011: Bitcoin public address
1FeexV6bAHb8ybZjqQMjJrcCrHGW9sb6uF (from now onward: 1Feex) was
created on this day when a so far unknown hacker dropped exactly 79,956
BTC on it, stolen on that same day from the Mt Gox exchange during the
transition of Mt Gox from the old owner Jed McCaleb to the new owner Mark
Karpelès.
Since March 1, 2011, the 1Feex address has almost literally only been
collecting dust, as around 400 small to very small transactions — called
‘dust’ in the Bitcoin community — have reached the 1Feex address. These
dust transactions amount to a total of 1.21 BTC at the moment of writing,
nevertheless.
On the other hand, no transaction has ever left the 1Feex address since its
creation day. In addition, no publicly verifiable signing has ever taken place in
relationship to the 1Feex address. It almost appears as if the Mt Gox hacker
lost the private key of the 1Feex address over ten years ago, doesn’t it?
September 25, 2013: Russian ‘WebMoney exchange’, as they called
themselves, WMIRK adds Bitcoin to its digital currency exchange portfolio.
Some will probably think, what does this fact have to do with the 1Feex
Bitcoin address? Don’t worry, I’ll come back to that later.
Source: https://topgoldforum.com/topic/34382-wmirk-wmirkru/#comment-201244
The stage is now set for Craig Wright to enter the scene. Craig, who learned
about Bitcoin in July 2011 and who bought his first few handfuls of Bitcoin on
Mt Gox in April 2013, started to randomly pick public Bitcoin rich list
addresses in the second half of 2013 to try to advance his Australian tax
fraud in that era.
One of the many Bitcoin addresses that Craig Wright randomly picked from
the Bitcoin rich list was: 1Feex.
October 9, 2013: Here is where we find an early example of Craig Wright
using one of those public addresses from the Bitcoin rich list, to
subsequently claim he owns, and controls, those randomly picked public
addresses. That false story of controlling Bitcoin assets would quickly
change though, because Craig, under growing pressure of Australian
Taxation Office (ATO), who requested he star ted to provide evidence to
these outrageous claims, had to hide the fact that he couldn’t sign any of
these public addresses, and at the same time he had to avoid paying tax on
‘his’ Bitcoin assets. So, after many times falsely declaring trusts all over the
globe are in play in his business endeavors, in exactly a year from this
moment, in October 2014, all Craig’s — imaginary — Bitcoin holdings will end
up in a ‘real trust’. October 2014 is where the Tulip Trust myth really lifts off.
Back to October 9, 2013. On this day, Craig Wright sends an email to the
ATO in the person of Michael Hardy about “confidential discussions about
the main addresses we control as a group”.
The reader will find the 1Feex address at the red arrows throughout this
article.
Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6309656/511/9/kleiman-v-wright/
October 11, 2013: Part of an affidavit filed by Craig Wright on November 4,
2013 at New South Wales Supreme Court (the illegal conversion by Craig
Wright that took place in this timeframe was recently penalized with a
whopping $100 million by a Jury in Miami; my more detailed report about
Craig Wright’s conversion was published on Bitcoin Magazine and the
Nasdaq website), this Statutory Declaration signed by Stephen D’Emilio and
Adrian Fong shows another instance where Craig Wright falsely claimed to
own, and to have control over, the 1Feex address.
Also note the 16cou address in this list of five Bitcoin addresses, as I will
come back to that later also.
Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6309656/24/4/kleiman-v-wright/
February 2014: Craig Wright contacts Kleiman estate.
Vel Freedman, head of Ira Kleiman’s counsel, described this process in every
shocking detail in his Closing Arguments on November 23, 2021 during the
recent Kleiman v Wright trial. Here is where Ira Kleiman gets involved with
the 1Feex address (and a lot more Faketoshi scam nonsense).
Vel Freedman:
“But Dave dies unexpectedly in 2013, and Craig sees an opportunity. As
we’ve discussed, Craig takes the partnership’s assets for himself, his access
to the Bitcoin because they mined it into a trust. But he needs title to the
intellectual property, so he can sell it. So he files sham lawsuits against W&K
to steal its intellectual property and he forges Dave’s signature on a contract
weeks before — that is dated weeks before Dave dies, which says that Dave
gives Craig 570,000, half of the 1.1 million Bitcoin — to Craig, gives Craig all
of W&K’s shares and all of W&K’s intellectual property, all in exchange for a
minority stake in a company that doesn’t even exist yet and a company that
amounted to nothing called Coin-Exch. Of course, Dave isn’t around to
dispute this outrageous contract. So Craig just forges Dave’s signature on it.
But Craig’s greedy. He then takes all the IP he stole from W&K and he
applies to the Australian Taxation Office for tens of millions of dollars in tax
rebates. Which, as you might expect, results in a tax audit. The ATO doesn’t
want to cut the $10 million check without proof. And so they start digging. It
seems that, like the IRS, the evidence shows that the ATO was dogged. They
examined everything. And when they start doing that, Craig is forced to start
revealing the truth about his partnership with Dave to defend himself from
the Australian authorities. To be sure, he’s not entirely truthful with the ATO
either. And he forges documents with them too. For example, he lies to them
about supercomputers. And he gets himself in trouble in Australia as well.
Eventually, the Australian Taxation Office finds that he forged documents
and that he lied to them. When his Australian lawyers, that never tell a lie,
find out that he submitted forged documents to the Australian Taxation
Office, they fire him too. Think about that for a minute. His own lawyers fire
him for forging documents. And that’s why you’ve seen documents in this
case from the Australian Taxation Office.
[…]
As with many stories, it’s Craig’s greed that results in his downfall. He had
almost gotten away with it. But in September 2013, he applies for $10 million
tax refunds from the Australian government based on the intellectual
property he had stolen. The Australian government quickly audits Craig’s
companies — Ms. Vela, if you could jump ahead with me — quickly audits
Craig’s companies. And then after auditing his companies, in February of
2014, they begin asking questions about W&K. Can you guys jump ahead for
me, please. I’m on Page 40. Craig finally reaches out — do we have a
technological issue? It was then, right after W&K — right after the ATO
reaches out about W&K, five days later, all of a sudden Craig Wright reaches
out. Make no mistake. This is not a good man doing a good deed. This is a
desperate man attempting to protect the fruits of his theft and protect
himself from the Australian Taxation Office breathing down his neck. He
needed the Kleimans to help him convince the Australian government that
his actions against W&K were proper. So he emails Ira Kleiman and he
promises them fool’s gold.”
March 2, 2014: Craig Wright creates an email forgery where Dave Kleiman
(who was not among the living anymore since about 10 months) talks about
a lot of Bitcoin addresses. Almost casually, paper wallets are also mentioned,
for the 1Feex address and other Bitcoin addresses.
Craig then backdates the email forgery to October 31, 2012, and sends it to
John Chesher of the ATO (with his wife Ramona Watts on the CC) on March
10, 2014. This email forgery is then only eight days old.
