Topic: Why a Little-Known Crypto Mining Firm is Suing Bitcoin Cash’s Biggest Backers (Read 135 times)

After reporting on the story that Miami-based UnitedCorp had filed suit against Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Bitmain, Bitcoin.com, and Kraken exchange, CCN had the opportunity to talk to Lawry Trevor-Deutsch, Vice President of Corporate Affairs, about the motivation for the lawsuit.

The first thing that should be disclosed is that UnitedCorp says that it is not acting on behalf of nChain, Craig Wright, or Calvin Ayre, as some outlets and some of the named defendants seem to be insinuating.

    If you are busy encouraging lawsuits against open source software developers for writing code, you are attacking the very foundations of the internet. #OSS pic.twitter.com/z0JjN9M8R2

    — Roger Ver (@rogerkver) December 8, 2018

They originally entered the blockchain space with an eye toward developing products for Bitcoin miners, and they’ve determined that on-chain scaling is their preference, so they tended toward developing for Bitcoin Cash early on.

The company has two outwardly blockchain-focused product offerings either in development or on the market: BlockNum, a product that fuses blockchain and traditional public switched telephone networks (UnitedCorp started in telecommunications but decided to get heavily into blockchain in 2017) and BlockchainDomes, which are a serious effort at providing energy efficiency and cooling efficiency to mining operations.

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