Did a class-action suit play a role in Maker's refusal to compensate March cr...
The community had originally voted in favor of compensation, but the final tally showed a different outcome. After multiple rounds of voting and heated discussion, the final vote to compensate losses for Maker (MKR) users that were liquidated “unfairly” during the March crash failed.About 52,500 MKR voted against any compensation, which accounted for 65% of the total votes. This amounts to about 8% of the total MKR supply, which some commentators took as a sign of low turnout.Nevertheless, Maker community member monetsupply, who was part of the working group designing the compensation....
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Adding to the long list of suits against downed Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, all of which have to wait for Japanese court action to finish in 2015, three Japanese creditors of Mt. Gox have filed a lawsuit against their former Bitcoin exchange. According to the Japan Times, The three creditors filed lawsuit in Tokyo District Court recently, demanding that Mark Karpeles pay 23.5 million Yen in damages. The suit claimed that Karpeles was "aware of the possibility of illicit withdrawals (of bitcoins) due to fragility of the firm's (computer) system." The suit further claims that "the firm....
After initially voting to do so, the Maker community will not compensate investors who lost big on the lending platform during "Black Thursday's" price rout.
The cryptocurrency exchange is accused of failing to do due diligence, among other things, after users lost large sums as a result of the depegging of stablecoins. A class-action suit was filed against Coinbase on Thursday claiming the trading platform was negligent in its listing of the TerraUSD stablecoin and alleging that it failed to disclose its financial relationship with Terraform Labs. This is the second class-action suit outstanding against Coinbase. A suit was filed last month in connection with the depegging of GYEN in November. Thursday’s suit alleges Coinbase was negligent for....