THELOGICALINDIAN - United Corp a Floridabased cryptocurrency aggregation that sued Bitmain in December 2024 contested the mining giants motion to abolish the case in a US cloister this week
A cryptocurrency aggregation United American Corp claims that China-based Bitmain should not be absolved from the United States’ antitrust suit, as the mining accessory maker requested.
The affair arose back Bitmain accused the United Corp of missing a borderline to serve the China-based firm. United Corp denied the accusations, claiming that both Bitmain and its CEO, Jihan Wu, were acquainted of the accusation adjoin them. Instead, the close continues to affirmation that it did aggregate in its ability to appropriately serve the Chinese firm, and do its allotment afore the deadline.
Bitmain vs. United Corp
Bitmain, on the added hand, claims the adverse in its November 12th motion. According to the mining giant, United Corp absent the borderline by as abounding as four business days. They affirmation that they do not accept abundant ties to the United States to face a board there, abundant beneath to be acquainted of their obligations after actuality notified. United Corp already afresh claims otherwise, alike advertence that Bitmain’s accepted CEO, Jihan Wu, currently lives in San Jose, California.
Furthermore, United Corp. claims that it can appearance the ties amid Bitmain and the US if the Florida court adjudicator doubted that such ties existed.
Some of the company’s affidavit includes the actuality that Bitmain and Wu were represented by the aforementioned admonition that represents accompanying entities. Another affair that United Corp had acicular out is that the mining behemothic additionally filed for an IPO afresh in the US. They additionally busy appointment amplitude in San Jose. Finally, according to the company, Bitmain additionally invested hundreds of millions of US dollars in a Texas-based abstracts center.
Even that is not all, as Bitmain allegedly has an absolute history of business deals in the US, in general. In added words, Bitmain’s affirmation that it doesn’t accept ties to the accompaniment of California is irrelevant, as United Corp alone needs to prove ties to the US itself.
Bitmain and Wu are alone two of the nine names that were listed as defendants in the antitrust suit, although all of them accept confused for dismissal.
Bitmain itself is one of the better companies in the crypto industry, and it is accepted for its development of mining gear. Less than two months ago, the aggregation appear two new models in their Antminer 17 series, as reported by Bitcoinist. The close claims that its ambition is to use avant-garde abstruse breakthroughs to advance ability ability and access hashrate output.
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Images via Shutterstock, Case reference: United American Corp. v. Bitmain Inc. et al., case cardinal 1:18-cv-25106, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
