Sam Bankman-Fried on dial-up level web

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s attorneys have once more requested a courtroom to briefly launch the previous FTX boss claiming the poor web connection in his Brooklyn jail is interfering with their trial prep.

In a Sep. 8 letter to District Choose Lewis Kaplan, Bankman-Fried’s lawyer Mark Cohen stated his consumer can’t entry an internet-enabled laptop twice per week for 4 to 5 hours as beforehand agreed to with United States prosecutors.

Cohen’s letter to Choose Lewis Kaplan. Supply: CourtListener

Citing an Aug. 30 incident, Cohen claimed Bankman-Fried misplaced two hours of “assessment time” because of an unrelated delay involving one other inmate on the jail.

As soon as Bankman-Fried was ultimately introduced as much as the visiting room the web connection was so gradual that it took 10 minutes for the house web page to load, his attorneys claimed.

“By 1:00pm — 1.5 hours later — Mr. Bankman-Fried was solely capable of load one doc from the database to assessment. Successfully, Mr. Bankman-Fried had no entry to the web for the complete 5-hour interval.”

“The defendant can not put together for trial with these sorts of limitations,” the letter reads.

Cohen claimed Bankman-Fried hasn’t been capable of successfully put together for his trial for the higher a part of a month and pushed for a short lived launch saying it’s obligatory with a view to make up for the misplaced time.

BlackRock’s buy of Voyager was one large lie

Asset administration large BlackRock has denied shopping for bankrupt crypto brokerage agency Voyager Digital — regardless of a extensively shared press launch stating in any other case.

A Sep. 8, a faux press launch — syndicated to the Related Press — claimed that BlackRock deliberate to amass Voyager, citing “trade insiders.”

Faked press launch of BlackRock’s buy of Voyager on AP. Supply: Related Press

A BlackRock spokesperson instructed Cointelegraph it’s not buying Voyager and tales suggesting in any other case are false.

As first famous by crypto journalist Colin Wu in an X (Twitter) put up the identical day, the social media account linked on the backside of the discharge directed to a newly-created X account with one put up and one follower.

The social media account linked on the backside of the faked press launch set its show identify to “Voyager” however its deal with is “@JoyTyger930897.” Supply: X

EINPresswire was seemingly the primary to put up the press launch, which exhibits an organization known as MK Digiworld offered the information. That firm’s website solely directs customers to message a Pakistan-based quantity.

Voyager’s VGX token nonetheless spiked 15% to $0.153 inside 12 hours of the AP’s syndication on Sept. 9. Nevertheless the token has since returned to $0.126, based on CoinGecko.

Keep in mind the man who threw 8,000 BTC within the trash?

Early Bitcoin (BTC) investor James Howells is gearing up for a lawsuit towards a south Wales council over its refusal to let him attempt to dig up and discover a onerous drive he threw out over 10 years in the past containing 8,000 BTC.

In a Sep. 8 report within the British paper The Telegraph, Howells stated the onerous drive was by chance binned by his ex — ending up in a tip managed by Newport Metropolis Council.

Since then Howells has been preventing with the council about stepping into the tip to search out the drive — which it’s refused a number of occasions citing the unfavourable environmental affect of digging up garbage.

On Sep. 4, Howells despatched an open letter to the council demanding he’s allowed to entry the dump and begin work by Sep. 18 or face a lawsuit with damages looking for almost $560 million — greater than double what the stash can be at the moment price at almost $206 million.

“I’ve tried all the pieces I can for 10 years,” Howells stated. “They didn’t wish to play ball, so now we’ve to go down the authorized route.”

Beforehand, Howells has proposed a venture-backed $11 million venture to dig up the drive that might make use of synthetic intelligence and robotic canine to type the trash together with consultants in excavation, waste administration and information extraction.

Somebody pays $500,000 in Bitcoin charges

The web crypto group has been left scratching their heads over a single Bitcoin transaction the place somebody paid almost 20 BTC, or over $515,000 in charges.

The Sep. 10 transaction was picked up by the blockchain-tracking X account Whale Alert and pseudonymous X person “mononaut” posted the transaction “makes completely no sense.”

My greatest guess is that this was created manually by pasting addresses and quantities into some type of pockets software program.

they meant to set a price of 8632 sats, however by chance pasted an output into the price field, turning it into 1982108632 sats, then broadcast with out double-checking.

— mononaut (@mononautical) September 10, 2023

“My greatest guess is that this was created manually by pasting addresses and quantities into some type of pockets software program,” mononaut wrote.

They defined the person might have by chance pasted an output quantity into the price field of the software program then despatched the transaction with out checking.

Bitcoin pockets supplier Casa co-founder Jameson Lopp stated the transaction “seems like an alternate or cost processor with buggy software program.”

The transaction that paid almost 20 BTC ($500,000) price just a few hours in the past seems like an alternate or cost processor with buggy software program.

They’ve acquired 60,000+ txns and despatched 60,000+ txns from the identical deal with (dangerous apply) and sure calculated their change output incorrectly. pic.twitter.com/s44Yc8S2ia

— Jameson Lopp (@lopp) September 10, 2023

He added the deal with appears to function as a companies “withdraw-only sizzling pockets” and doubtless miscalculated a change output because of having across the similar variety of despatched and acquired transactions.

Additionally making information

The X account of Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin was compromised on Sep. 9 with hackers posting a phishing hyperlink that led to them netting a virtually $700,000 payday.

The identical day, FTX sued cross-chain protocol LayerZero Labs to attempt claw again $21 million allegedly illegally withdrawn previous to the crypto alternate’s November 2022 chapter.

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Extra reporting by Brayden Lindrea.