Monday, September 29, 2014

Butterfly Labs Case Updated: BFL Mined Bitcoin Using Customers' Rigs

A week ago, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shut down Butterfly Labs (BFL), one of the reasons for this being that “consumers who have purchased the machines or services cannot use them to generate Bitcoins because Defendants [Butterfly Labs] never provide them with the machines or services.” The FTC released new court filings today for its Butterfly Labs case. The most recent report by the FTC against Butterfly Labs is that they mined for bitcoins on their customers’ miners before shipping them (if they even shipped them at all), and didn’t tell the customer: Fraud.

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