@Arceris
30,277 sats stacked
Look at a poisson distribution... A set of fast blocks will happen occasionally, as will a set of very slow blocks.
You can totally get it off eBay for about $200 šššš
I'd bet that you may be able to locate a free PDF somewhere - I think the author posted one at one point.
Only 8 hours ago, we saw this: #733583
Given the defamation angle the plaintiff was taking, they should have been prepared for the anti-slapp. Those laws are good, in general, as they enforce higher standards for historically abused defamation claims.
The judge appears to believe that the crypto project is actually a scam:
Turning first to the defamation cause of action, here Exceptional has not adequately shown a substantial basis in either law or fact. The two main issues Exceptional faces here are that it has offered nothing but mere conclusory remarks as to either that the statement that YieldNodes is an āinvestment scamā is false or that Chainalysis made the statements with actual malice. When, as is the case here, a defamation action involves Anti-SLAPP issues of public interest, āa plaintiff must show by clear and convincing evidence that the statements were false, and made with either knowledge of their falsity, or reckless disregard of whether the statements were false.ā Gillespie v. Kling, 217 A.D.3d 566, 566 (1st Dept. 2023).
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The closest Exceptional comes to pleading facts that show malice is the statement that Chainalysis did not revoke the 2022 Flagging after Exceptional ātold them it was falseā, but nowhere does Exceptional offer any facts as to why the statement is false. Conclusory allegations do not suffice to establish a substantial basis. L.Y.E. Diamonds, Ltd. V. Gemological Institute of America, Inc., 169 A.D.3d 589, 591 (1st Dept. 2019).
As @siggy47 said on the thread above, a better plaintiff (with better lawyers) could probably have done much better here.
(As an aside, thanks to L0la L33tz and TheRage for citing & linking to the actual source documents. See how fucking easy it is <insert EVERY OTHER FUCKING REPORTER & NEWS SOURCE>?)
The US has had such a system for awhile, but from what I can tell it was formalized in the 1960s (along with an exit tax).
Eritrea did this and also enacted an exit tax. The story I heard is that the Eritrean finance minister went to school with (or was otherwise friends with) Timothy Geithner, and established it based on conversations with him. I can't find evidence of this quickly, but it's what I heard years ago.
This is being reported on Twitter.
Oh my god. Civil Asset Forfeiture is so fucking bullshit when applied to the individual/property who may have done the deed.
But an innocent holder in due course? What the actual fuck?
Thank you for telling this story. Itās probably small time enough that IJ wouldnāt be interested. Fiat delenda est.
It was rather bad. I elided over some nuance in the above, but not much. Iāll try to get an accurate quote on the 1A piece.
Looks like the tweet was deleted (probably due to the response & community note). But hereās a screenshot:
If by āretaliateā you mean ādo to his enemies what was done to himā, then you all maybe shouldnāt have gone down that path in the first place.
Probability of 5 blocks in 1 ten minute period is approximately 0.31%