Celsius Sues BitMEX for $495M Over 2020 BTC Liquidations
The bankruptcy estate's fraud and manipulation claims target the exchange's liquidation engine from the March 2020 crash, landing 11 days before BitMEX shuts down trading on Sept. 23.
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The bankruptcy estate's fraud and manipulation claims target the exchange's liquidation engine from the March 2020 crash, landing 11 days before BitMEX shuts down trading on Sept. 23.
At $100,000 BTC, the traced Intersango pool reaches $550M and a forgotten 5 BTC balance becomes a $500K claim. The constraint is evidence, not blockchain forensics.
Unlike most state levies on trading gains, Illinois's rule taxes gross value of every covered broker-handled digital asset event.
With three industry groups now aligned against the levy, the suit escalates from a state-budget line item into a precedent fight over digital asset taxation.
The claim targets the equity round Binance and its CEO funded at the top of the prior cycle, not trading activity, and lands as the estate hunts every major 2021 counterparty for clawback.
The 2020 case almost broke Ripple before it ended, and the CEO is naming the financial pressure publicly as the SEC files to formally conclude the multi-year XRP litigation.
The CEO put the four-year SEC fight at $150M in legal costs, and framed the choice to keep fighting as a jobs decision rather than a bet on XRP's regulatory status.
Three years of U.S. trade-secret litigation ends not on the merits but on a 5.98 million-pound London arbitration award Citadel says it cannot collect.
The lawsuit hinges on whether 32 BTC sold across one May week qualifies as the kind of "notable" divestment the market was structured to capture.
The revived fraud claim targets Silbert personally and DCG as a defendant; consumer protection claims in four states were dropped, three others paused, narrowing the case to a sharper fight.
The amended complaint accuses Etana and CEO Dion Brandon Russell of running a 'Ponzi-like enterprise' funded by continuous new deposits — a structural failure that landed the custodian in Colorado…