$345 Million In Bitcoin Gone — But FBI Isn’t At Fault, Judges Say
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has affirmed a district court’s refusal to award a Florida defendant the value of roughly 3,443 bitcoin—now “worth over $345 million”—after the government destroyed an external hard drive he belatedly claimed held the keys, holding that the equitable doctrine of laches bars relief because he spent […]
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About two weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal ran an expose on the number of judges who held or traded the stock of companies over which they presided in legal proceedings. The article identifies 131 federal judges nationwide who did this during the period of 2010 to 2018. Of those 131 members of the judiciary, 61 judges purportedly traded the public company stock of litigants during the case. Imagine that! Its quite incredible, actually.Powers On… is a monthly opinion column from Marc Powers, who spent much of his 40-year legal career working with complex securities-related cases in the....
On October 6, after spending three years behind bars, Ross Ulbricht returned to a Manhattan courtroom to face a panel of judges, who heard his defense team’s appeal of the double life sentence Ulbricht received over a year ago. Three Judges Review the Ross Ulbricht Case. A three-judge panel reviewed arguments given by defense attorney Joshua Dratel....
An exchange on X between Polygon’s CTO Mudit Gupta and Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox reignited a long-simmering debate over whether privacy-preserving shielded pools can be perfectly audited — and, by extension, whether ZEC’s 21 million cap can be trusted under all conceivable failure modes. The dispute hinged on a familiar fault line in privacy-coin design: […]
The second annual EtherCamp hackaton has entered its voting phase. Judges will decide the winners of the $50,000 prize. Spectators can also participate by voting with tokens for which project should win. When the competition ends, the teams can then keep those funds to continue their development. The hackathon features a panel of judges, each of which will have 1,000 tokens to contribute towards the voting process. Judge Seeks Real-World Impact. One judge, Alex Shelkovnikov, Deloitte’s blockchain and corporate venturing lead in the United Kingdom, said he will be looking for real-world....
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