2019-9-25 20:35 |
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The ongoing Kleiman v. Wright case saw expert testimony on Monday from the plaintiff’s cryptography specialist, alongside the defendant Craig Wright’s witness, Nchain CTO Steve Shadders.
2019-8-8 19:00 | |
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Long-standing cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will face a negligence lawsuit after allegedly mismanaging the launch of Bitcoin Cash on its platform, a judge has ruled. However, court documents released on Tuesday show that US District Judge Vince Chhabria threw fraud and unfair competition charges relating to the case.
2019-8-8 15:57 | |
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A California-based couple will have to forfeit their cryptocurrency riches after pleading guilty to running a dark web drug operation ring. Jabari Monson, 32, of Merced, California pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute controlled substances.
2019-8-7 11:04 | |
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According to documents from the U. K. ’s High Court of Justice published on July 31, a judge has denied Craig Wright’s libel lawsuit against Roger Ver. Wright filed the charge against Ver when the early bitcoin investor told the public he believed Wright was a “liar and a fraud.
2019-8-2 22:30 | |
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International investigators warn the ‘Ndrangheta mafia family now resembles a “criminal blockchain” following the recent decentralization of its internal power structures. Usually, ‘Ndrangheta families in Canada took orders from “mother clans” in Calabria, but for the first time, mobsters outside of Siderno are making decisions that impact operations all the way back to Italy, reports National Post.
2019-7-25 16:24 | |
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A contract programmer has pleaded guilty to planting “logic bombs” inside a client’s spreadsheets in an attempt to receive extra work from the company every time the software crashed. David Tinley — the Pennsylvania-based 62-year-old contract programmer in question — now faces a fine of up to $250,000, up to 10 years in prison, or both.
2019-7-25 12:25 | |
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Joseph Lubin is well known as the co-founder of Ethereum, but his name is in the headlines for a different reason lately, linked with Harrison Hines. Hine used to be the head of Token Foundry with ConsenSys, which is Lubin’s venture studio.
2019-7-20 20:04 | |
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According to court documents freshly re-leaked on Twitter, Craig Wright has given two widely diverging stories on his history of mining Bitcoin in the early at the turn of the last decade. Quick note on Craig Wright, mining & trusts.
2019-7-14 15:04 | |
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According to court documents freshly re-leaked on Twitter, Craig Wright has given two widely diverging stories on his history of mining Bitcoin in the early at the turn of the last decade. Quick note on Craig Wright, mining & trusts.
2019-7-13 15:04 | |
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The Kleiman v. Wright case continues this week and a slew of new evidence has been submitted to the Southern District of Florida courthouse. A supplemental affidavit stemming from the Kleiman estate’s expert witness, Dr.
2019-7-12 23:30 | |
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A filing in a lawsuit filed against cryptocurrency firm OneCoin has revealed that one of the proposed lead plaintiffs lost over $700,000 in the scam. According to documents submitted on July 8th in a Manhattan court, proposed lead plaintiff Donald Berdeaux invested approximately $755,918.
2019-7-10 15:32 | |
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Last week, Craig Wright, the man who claims he’s Satoshi Nakamoto, appeared in court and testified why he did not have access to his public bitcoin addresses and trust information. Since then a lot of new evidence has been submitted to the court and members of the crypto community have dissected Wright’s recent testimony and […] The post Experts Dissect Craig Wright’s ‘Satoshi’ Testimony and Court Documents appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-7-8 12:00 | |
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Self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright has allegedly fabricated court documents in an attempt to prove a deed of trust with Kleiman
2019-7-6 22:15 | |
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Self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright has allegedly fabricated court documents in an attempt to prove a deed of trust with Kleiman
2019-7-4 22:15 | |
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The comedy of errors surrounding self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright took another turn this week. Documents presented during the ongoing Kleiman trial appear to show that despite Wright’s best efforts to fool the court, he was undone in the end by a simple typeface.
2019-7-5 18:07 | |
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Android founder, Andy Rubin, may have left Google long back in 2014, but his departure is beginning to attract more unsavory attention as more information is released. According to documents made public by a California superior court, Rubin left the company after having an “inappropriate relationship” with a subordinate, and allegedly concealed payments about his hefty severance package from his now-estranged wife for several years.
2019-7-3 14:53 | |
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Android founder, Andy Rubin, may have left Google long back in 2014, but his departure is beginning to attract more unsavory attention as more information is released. According to documents made public by a California superior court, Rubin left the company after having an “inappropriate relationship” with a subordinate, and allegedly concealed payments about his hefty severance package from his now-estranged wife for several years.
2019-7-3 14:53 | |
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A woman accused of running a Bitcoin-powered fake ID ring pleaded guilty on Tuesday after authorities busted the operation last year. Among other charges, Sarah Alberts, 35, who is due to be sentenced on October 8, admitted to money laundering, reports say.
2019-7-3 13:24 | |
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The man who claims to have invented Bitcoin, Craig Wright, will be appearing in court on Friday, June 28 in West Palm Beach, Florida for an evidentiary hearing. According to recently filed documents in the Kleiman v.
2019-6-28 02:55 | |
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An alleged moderator of AlphaBay, a dark web marketplace, has been indicted for facilitating sales on the site before law enforcement shut it down as a result of Operation Bayonet. According to court documents, the moderator received numerous payments in Bitcoin.
2019-6-25 11:24 | |
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On Monday, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporters learned that the popular website that focuses on U. S. court documents and the litigation system, Courtlistener. com, is accepting BCH for donations. Courtlistener captures hundreds of thousands of visitors every month by making high quality legal data widely available.
2019-6-18 17:59 | |
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Craig Wright, the controversial creator of Bitcoin SV claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, could be facing jail time for fraud. Documents from a Florida court proved that Wright committed perjury, as his defense contradicts an affidavit he previously submitted to an Australian court.
2019-6-15 23:11 | |
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By CCN: Konstantin Ignatov, the CEO of the multi-billion-dollar “crypto” Ponzi scheme OneCoin, has pleaded not guilty to wire fraud. According to court documents, Ignatov entered the plea during a May 28 preliminary hearing via conference call.
2019-6-8 01:20 | |
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In a turn everyone should’ve seen coming, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing messaging app Kik for its initial coin offering (ICO). In court documents released yesterday, the SEC outlined that Kik’s sale of one trillion “Kin” tokens was not registered with the SEC.
2019-6-5 11:26 | |
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Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex has secured a temporary reprieve in its ongoing legal tussle against the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) office. NY Judge Grants Stay of Document In a press release issued on Wednesday (May 22, 2019), Bitfinex announced that Hon Joel M.
2019-5-23 13:00 | |
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Bitfinex, currently most controversial cryptocurrency exchange, announced that the New York Supreme Court Judge Joel M. Cohen granted the firms’ motion for an immediate stay on the documents demanded by the New York Attorney General.
2019-5-22 20:47 | |
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It appears that contrary to its marketing promises, Tether – a cryptocurrency pegged to the US dollar – used some of its dollar reserves to buy Bitcoin. The stablecoin issuer, which shares management and ownership with cryptocurrency exchange service Bitfinex, has admitted it used its reserves to invest in Bitcoin and other “assets,” according to court transcripts obtained by The Block.
2019-5-22 11:12 | |
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Tether, a stablecoin tied to the dollar that is meant to mediate the volatility of other cryptocurrencies, is partly backed by bitcoin. As detailed in court documents obtained by The Block, Tether admitted to using some of the cash reserves meant to back its stablecoin to purchase bitcoin, among other assets.
2019-5-22 23:02 | |
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In the latest on the ongoing legal dispute between the New York Attorney General (NYAG), cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin issuer Tether, the New York Supreme Court has modified an April 24, 2019, preliminary injunction and now Bitfinex is allowed to continue using the Tether reserves that were loaned to it to maintain its ordinary course of business, such as paying employees and consultants.
2019-5-18 22:14 | |
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A man in the US has been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for purchasing, downloading, and concealing child abuse imagery he got on the dark web and paid for with Bitcoin. According to court documents, starting in May 2017, Stephen P.
2019-5-17 13:55 | |
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The US Court for the Southern District of Florida has dismissed the case of initial coin offering (ICO) fraud against DJ Khaled and boxer Floyd Mayweather. The court decided that despite Khaled and Mayweather shilled defunct cryptocurrency firm CentraTech (and its associated ICO of CTR tokens) on their social media profiles, they did not play a big enough role in its promotion to warrant further legal action.
2019-5-15 17:05 | |
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US authorities have seized over $4 million worth of cryptocurrency and cash following a movie piracy investigation conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
2019-5-14 13:19 | |
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An Irish man, part of a hacking group called “The Community,” is facing upwards of 100 years in a US prison after allegedly stealing over $2 million worth of cryptocurrencies in a series of SIM-swap attacks.
2019-5-13 13:04 | |
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A filing showing the list of addresses that were supposed to prove that controversial figure Craig Wright was, in fact, Satoshi Nakamoto, has been unsealed. Deeper inspection of the list, however, showed that the blocks Wright claims to have mined are merely a “lazy copy-paste from the blockchain,” researchers from Wizsec Security found.
2019-5-10 12:14 | |
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News surfaced yesterday that the wife of Craig Wright, the man famous for claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto, has supposedly lost $3 million worth of Bitcoin following a series of trading mishaps.
2019-5-8 13:33 | |
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Self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, Craig Wright’s legal troubles have not ceased. The nChain Chief Scientist’s court battle against the estate of former partner, Dave Kleiman, legislated by a district court in Florida, saw new developments.
2019-5-8 12:00 | |
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The case involving Bitfinex and Tether saw a small push forward when a New York City judge required the embattled Bitfinex to submit specific documents that may be related to the 850 million cover-ups between the crypto exchange and Tether.
2019-5-7 18:26 | |
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Bitfinex and the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) legal sparring in relation to $850 million in missing funds escalated with another round of court filings this past weekend.
2019-5-7 01:42 | |
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By CCN: Let’s be real. The number of people who believe that Craig Wright is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto can easily fit in a sparsely-populated Telegram channel. It includes Wright, Calvin Ayre, Ryan X.
2019-5-7 01:11 | |
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It looks like the tables have turned for the self-proclaimed creator of Bitcoin, with Craig S Wright finding himself on the receiving end of a legal notice. On May 3, a US District Court, from the Southern District of Florida issued an order to “Faketoshi” to provide ownership evidence of Bitcoin addresses which are over […] The post Craig Wright backed against the wall; court orders ‘self-proclaimed Satoshi’ to produce BTC ownership documents appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-5-5 14:00 | |
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The NYAG's office has told a court that Bitfinex and Tether must turn over documents detailing the companies' recent financial maneuvers.
2019-5-5 19:30 | |
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U. S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York has charged two individuals for providing “shadow banking” services to crypto exchanges. According to a statement by Geoffrey S.
2019-5-2 23:54 | |
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The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York has charged two people in connection with running an unlicensed money transfer business used to make deposits for cryptocurrency exchanges.
2019-5-1 13:13 | |
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Legal representatives for Bitfinex and Tether confirm the widely held suspicion that USDT is not one-to-one backed by US dollars. Court documents confirm tethers are only 74 percent backed, and those holding tokens are “subject to the risk of default, insolvency, inability to collect, and illiquidity.
2019-5-1 02:56 | |
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Bitfinex and Tether’s legal counsel has written a response to the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) ex parte order, which claims that Bitifinex used Tether’s reserves to cover some $850 million in losses.
2019-5-1 01:22 | |
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The New York State Attorney General (NYSAG) is reportedly building a case to sue cryptocurrency exchange, Bitfinex, and stablecoin, Tether. As court documents dated April 24 state, neither Bitfinex nor Tether are licensed to operate in the state of New York, and yet the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) believes New York-based investors did use the exchange to trade Tether.
2019-4-26 12:29 | |
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In what the Manhattan District Attorney calls the first crypto money laundering conviction in New York, two defendants have pleaded guilty to running a drug trafficking business that laundered millions of dollars in Western Union and crypto payments.
2019-4-25 20:37 | |
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By CCN: In what may be considered a tacit admission of guilt, Craig Wright’s attorneys have requested that “exhibit A,” an e-mail that was proven to be fake, be withdrawn from evidence in a lawsuit filed against Wright by Dave Kleiman’s estate.
2019-4-20 20:35 | |
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Craig S. Wright has officially taken the first steps in a legal action against a member of the Bitcoin community, according to a letter shared with Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-4-12 21:55 | |
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The defunct Canadian exchange's deceased CEO apparently did business with Liberty Reserve founder Michael Patryn, who was convicted of money laundering.
2019-4-10 19:40 | |
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Lawyers for cryptocurrency firm Digital Currency Group (DCG) and two of its top executives – CEO and founder Barry Silbert and Soichiro “Michael” Moro, the former CEO of DCG’s wholly-owned trading arm Genesis – have made a final effort to convince a judge to toss out New York Attorney General (NYAG) Letitia James’ civil fraud suit against them.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is not backing down from her lawsuit against Digital Currency Group, its founder and CEO Barry Silbert, and Soichiro “Michael” Moro, the former CEO of DCG’s wholly-owned crypto trading arm, Genesis.
Tether's banking relationships were detailed in a rare but limited window into the reserves behind USDT, the crypto market’s largest stablecoin, in documents obtained by CoinDesk under a Freedom of Information Law request.
BTC bulls were liquidated during the drop to $15,500 on Nov. 21, and more downside could occur if bears profit $245 million during Friday’s expiry.
The NYAG has said Tether and Bitfinex have been cooperating in its inquiry, which is expected to progress more quickly once the documents are provided.
A New York judge ordered Bitfinex and Tether to turn over financial documents to the New York Attorney General's office, but left the timing to the parties to coordinate.
Bitfinex and Tether shouldn’t need more than two months to produce documents about USDT issuances and past operations in New York first ordered 17 months ago, an NYAG lawyer argued in a letter Monday.