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ForkLog 17 26.02.2021

Former FSB officers sentenced to 9 and 12 years in prison for extorting a bribe in Bitcoin

The court sentenced two former FSB investigators Sergey Belousov and Alexey Kolbov to nine and twelve years in a strict-regime prison for extorting a large bribe in Bitcoin, according to TASS.

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ForkLog 10 25.02.2021

Ukrainian court orders blocking access to ForkLog, a GitHub subdomain and LiveJournal

The Holosiivskyi Court of Kyiv, presided by Judge E.G. Plahotnyuk, ordered to seize intellectual property rights over 426 sites and to block access to them. The ForkLog journal was included in this list, although the domain is listed with an extra space.

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ForkLog 20 19.02.2021

SEC clarifies Brad Garlinghouse’s liability in Ripple lawsuit

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed an amended version of the lawsuit against Ripple. The regulator's focus was on the actions of individual defendants—the company's CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co-founder Chris Larsen.

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ForkLog 13 16.02.2021

Ripple and the SEC Doubt Prospects of Pre-Trial Settlement in Unregistered Securities Case

Lawyers for the California-based Ripple and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) saw no prospect of a pre-trial settlement in the case over the sale of unregistered securities.

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ForkLog 8 12.02.2021

Bitsonar pyramid founder charged with murder

The Odessa regional prosecutor's office has sent an indictment to court against the creator of the Bitsonar pyramid, Alexander Tovstenko, suspected of organizing the contract murder of a former colleague.

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ForkLog 8 12.02.2021

American sues T-Mobile after losing $450,000 in Bitcoin

A Californian resident, Kelvin Cheng, sues T-Mobile for negligence after losing 15 BTC in a SIM swap. The suit was filed in the Southern District of New York.

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ForkLog 13 09.02.2021

Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood After Suicide of 20-Year-Old Trader

The parents of 20-year-old Alex Kearns filed a lawsuit against the crypto-friendly platform Robinhood. They accused the company of driving their son to suicide.

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ForkLog 6 08.02.2021

Binance Withdraws Defamation Suit Against Forbes

Binance, the cryptocurrency exchange, has withdrawn its claims against Forbes Media and two of its journalists—Michael del Castillo and Jason Brett. This is evidenced by a filing dated February 4, 2021, in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

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ForkLog 9 05.02.2021

Court ends case over blocking Bestchange mirror of cryptocurrency-exchange aggregator

The prosecutor's office dropped its bid to block Bestchange.net — the mirror of the online cryptocurrency-exchange aggregator Bestchange.ru. ForkLog was informed of this by the Digital Rights Center, the law firm that represented Bestchange in court.

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ForkLog 18 02.02.2021

On the day of Navalny’s trial, his campaign headquarters received 0.078 BTC

On February 2, the day of the hearing to convert Navalny's suspended sentence into a real term, 0.078 BTC was credited to the campaign's Bitcoin wallet (over $2,700).

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ForkLog 12 30.01.2021

Ripple asks the SEC why Bitcoin and Ethereum are not securities

Ripple filed an answer to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit. It argues that the charges of issuing unregistered securities are based on an unprecedented and ill-conceived legal theory.

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ForkLog 15 29.01.2021

Court rejects defendant’s bid to cooperate with North Korea, Ethereum developer

A federal judge in New York rejected the motion by former Ethereum Foundation researcher Virgil Griffith to drop charges of providing information assistance to North Korea, Law360 reports.

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