United American Corp., operating as UnitedCorp, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida last Thursday alleging that several prominent figures in the Bitcoin cryptocurrency market essentially “hijack[ed] the Bitcoin Cash network” causing widespread harm to U.S. Bitcoin holders. In the twenty-seven page, and one hundred and twenty-two paragraph complaint, UnitedCorp takes aim at bitcoin miner Bitmain Inc. and its owner Jihan Wu, well-known bitcoin investor Roger Ver and his company Bitcoin.com, and the Kraken Bitcoin Exchange, among others, claiming that they attempted to “centraliz[e] what is intended to be a decentralized transactional system enabling the corruption of the democratic and neutral principles of the Bitcoin Cash network.”
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Sherman Act
FTC issues statement on its enforcement abilities under § 5 of the FTC Act
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Data Privacy
On August 13, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a statement on its ability to prosecute ‘unfair trade practices’ and enforce violations under § 5 of the FTC Act. The guidance said:
Section 5’s ban on unfair methods of competition encompasses not only those acts and practices that violate the Sherman or Clayton Act
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