Hodlonaut, a Bitcoin influencer with thousands of followers on Twitter, has already received over $1 million in donations for his upcoming appeal of a...

Last December, a case between Craig Wright – an Australian computer scientist and the self-proclaimed inventor of bitcoin – and David Kleiman, now deceased, saw Wright having to forfeit as much as $100 million to Kleiman’s family and estate. It was alleged in the case that the two had worked together on various bitcoin-related projects...

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Craig Wright must pay an extra $43 million in prejudgment interest on top of the previously ruled $100 million as we can see more today in our latest cryptocurrency news today. The federal judge in West Palm Beach Florida ruled that Craig Wright must pay an extra $43 million to W&K Info Defense Research. The […]

A Florida federal court on Monday denied a request for a new trial against self-professed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright, rejecting arguments that Wright's attorneys violated a court order and improperly swayed jurors by bringing up the relationship between the plaintiff and his late brother, who was allegedly Wright's business partner.

Is Linus Torvalds the man who invented bitcoin? Torvalds Has Become the Object of the Satoshi Obsession For the past several years, many crypto traders have sought to find out the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the man behind bitcoin (the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency by market cap). For some, the mystery is something...

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Block, the payments-focused company formerly known as Square, is officially throwing its hat into the bitcoin mining game.

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Listen to the most important stories in Bitcoin and crypto covered by our newsroom in the past week. Crypto investor wants Kim Kardashian in court over pump and dump Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather, and Paul Pierce shilled blatant ‘pump and dump’ crypto EthereumMax to millions of followers. Read more Can NFTs be ‘art’? Wikipedia can’t […]

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The former head of Twitter is spearheading a new effort to advocate on behalf of Bitcoin (BTC) developers in legal matters. Jack Dorsey announced the creation of the nonprofit Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund (BLDF) in an email sent to members of the developer community. “The Bitcoin community is currently the subject of multi-front litigation. Litigation […]

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Ira Kleiman doesn't seem satisfied with the court ordering Craig Wright to pay up $100 million, he wants the whole Bitcoin case tried again.

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A recent letter published to the Bitcoin developers mailing list written by Square founder Jack Dorsey indicates that a legal defense fund has been created for open source developers in order to protect them “from lawsuits regarding their activities in the Bitcoin ecosystem.” Dorsey’s letter is also signed by Alex Morcos of Chaincode Labs and […]

The initiative seeks to minimize legal headaches that discourage software developers from actively contributing to Bitcoin.

Square CEO Jack Dorsey continues to work on new bitcoin-related endeavors by launching a new fund to provide legal defense for BTC developers. Called “Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund,” its first activity will be to assist in the ongoing Tulip Trading lawsuit. In an email sent to BTC developers, Dorsey described the new fund as a […]