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Virgil Griffith’s motion to dismiss the charges against him claiming that he violated U.S. sanctions law in North Korea was denied late Friday by a judge in the Southern District of New York (SDNY).U.S. Judge Kevin Castel denied the motion, leaving it up to a jury to decide whether Griffith
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According to a Goldman insider, the investment bank will leap into crypto custody soon.This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.Today on the Brief: Gary Gensler is officially Biden’s pick for SEC chairmanInvestors are betting against the U.S. dollarGrayscale has best day ever with $700 million in investmentEthereum reaches new all-time high
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Lawyers representing the United States government have filed a legal memo opposing the dismissal of charges for Virgil Griffith, a former Ethereum Foundation researcher accused of conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK.According to court records filed Nov. 19 in the Southern District
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Virgil Griffith’s lawyer has filed a motion to dismiss the U.S. government’s charges that the Ethereum developer violated sanctions law by speaking at a North Korean cryptocurrency conference. The motion, filed by attorney Brian Klein, claims the government’s late-2019 indictment of Griffith doesn’t “specify any alleged overt facts,” and contains
Read MoreVirgil Griffith, the former Ethereum Foundation researcher accused of conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, filed a motion on Thursday to dismiss the charge against him on the grounds that prosecutors from the Southern District of New York have failed to properly state Griffith’s
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Investors accuse NVIDIA of bungling the chipmaker's response to 2017's mining hardware boom. Source
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Tether and affiliate exchange group iFinex have called for a market manipulation suit to be dismissed – partly, they say, because plaintiffs don’t prove that billions of dollars of unbacked stablecoins did actually enter the market. Read the memorandum in full below: Source
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Major manufacturer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and computing hardware Nvidia has filed a motion to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the firm misrepresented more $1 billion in sales during 2017 and 2018.In addition to its popular ‘GeForce’ and ‘GTX’ products — favored by both gamers and crypto
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U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall has rejected AT&T’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the company was negligent for failing to prevent the theft of $1.8 million in crypto from investor Seth Shapiro.In the judge’s order allowing the suit to continue, Shapiro’s claims of negligence, negligent supervision, claims brought
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Ripple has filed a motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging that it held an unregistered securities sale of its XRP tokens.In court documents filed on Dec. 4, Ripple argues that the plaintiffs’ case is contradictory and “self-defeating.” Alongside a reiteration of previous arguments, the company now also claims
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