Genesis Sues Roger Ver for $20 Million for Failing to Settle Crypto Choices

The so-called “Bitcoin Jesus,” Roger Ver, has been summoned to repay over $20 million in damages to Genesis after failing to settle sure cryptocurrency choices transactions earlier than the cost deadline.

The investor has been given 20 days to reply the summons, after which he might be pressured to pay reparations by default.

• As reported by Offshore Alert, the submitting was submitted by a British Virgin Islands-domiciled affiliate of Genesis, which designated New York Nation because the place of trial.
• The submitting states that the choices transactions in query expired on December 30. Failing to reply the summons would require Ver to repay at the least $20,869,788, alongside Genesis’s prices, bills, and legal professional’s charges.
• This isn’t the primary time Ver has gotten into authorized hassle this crypto winter. In July, the Seychelles-based crypto alternate CoinFlex sued Ver for $84 million for failing to repay his margin debt.
• CoinFlex had made a particular association for Ver during which it agreed to not liquidate the collateral on his commerce when it reached the common restrict, on account of belief in him as a counterparty. The corporate filed for restructuring in August.
• Genesis, too, has filed for chapter, after taking place because the largest unsecured creditor in FTX’s chapter.
• A Genesis lawyer lately advised a Manhattan courtroom that an settlement might be reached with collectors inside every week. Filings present that the corporate nonetheless has $1.6 billion value of belongings greater than liabilities.
• Ver is a longtime member of the crypto house, and a loud proponent of Bitcoin Money (BCH) – a Bitcoin exhausting fork with an elevated block dimension restrict to facilitate quicker transactions. His margin mortgage with CoinFlex was in opposition to BCH, which is down 53% during the last yr.