Mega Upload Creator Faces Extradition
New Zealand — December 23, Bitcoin enthusiast and Mega Upload creator Kim Dotcom can now be extradited to the United States. Dotcom with three others face U.S. authorities for transgressions of money laundering, copyright infringement and other charges. The current resident of New Zealand has been battling the courts now for quite some time and won’t be creating new projects anytime soon. Kim Dotcom had plans on creating a new Mega enterprise called — Meganet — telling press via Skype from his home a few months ago. According to what he told Business Insider the service would be quite....
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Kim Dotcom has told the public many times that Bitcoin will be an integral part of Mega Upload 2 and Bitcache. Now, with the help from BnkToTheFuture, Dotcom is raising funds to scale the project. According to Max Keiser, the project is nearing 50 percent of its $1 million minimum goal. BnkToTheFuture Investment Platform Hosts Mega 2 Funding Round. Over....
Kim Dotcom’s life is never boring. When he’s not fighting off lawsuits, he is building mega-businesses like Megaupload. When he is not openly mocking the U.S. Government, he is building a Megaupload remix that will be built around Bitcoin’s digital currency. Taking on the world’s greatest empire in court is just another day in paradise for Kim, and so he will do it in style. Kim Dotcom is facing an American extradition legal hearing, starting today, and it will be streamed live on YouTube. First time in history a legal hearing is streamed live on YouTube. The U.S. is looking to make an....
Kim Dotcom is a well-known person in the cyber world as the founder of the now defunct file-sharing service Megaupload. Now, Dotcom is not only creating a new sharing service called Mega 2.0 but has made it well known that Bitcoin will be a major part of the platform. Mega 2.0, Bitcache, MegaNet. The new service that Dotcom has been working on called....