Bitcoin Cash proponent Roger Ver is once again feuding with an embattled crypto company over bad trades worth millions of dollars — this time, it’s a subsidiary of bankrupt lender Genesis.
Genesis subsidiary GGC International filed a court summons in New York earlier this week, demanding Ver pay no less than $20 million to cover a set of crypto options, which expired at the end of December.
Ver, once referred to as “Bitcoin Jesus” for his BTC evangelism before staunchly supporting the Bitcoin Cash hard fork in 2017, says he won’t be paying up.
Ичинде Reddit билдирүү Wednesday, Ver claimed he has enough funds to pay Genesis, and even said he’d be “happy to pay,” but it’s Genesis that failed to hold up its end of the bargain.
“… Genesis was required by our agreement to remain solvent — as Genesis can’t ask its clients to play a ‘heads clients lose, tails Genesis wins’ game,” Ver wrote. He further claimed that he’d asked Genesis in June for assurances of its solvency, but didn’t receive what he wanted to know.
GGC International is a British Virgin Island company that facilitates crypto derivatives and spot trading, according to Genesis’ сайты.
Genesis, itself a subsidiary of Barry Silbert’s crypto-conglomerate Digital Currency Group, банкротко арыз берген last week, about two months after halting customer withdrawals and loan originations. But GGC International hasn’t filed for bankruptcy just yet.
Blockworks has reached out to both Ver and Genesis for comment.
While it’s unclear whether кыска will compel Ver to cover the expired options, this isn’t the first time he’s been challenged on trading debt.
Last July, he was entangled with a smaller platform, CoinFLEX, after CEO Mark Lamb accused him of owing the company $47 million in USDC after he failed to meet a margin call.
CoinFLEX later filed укуктук иш-аракеттер in Hong Kong against Ver, saying its estimated losses from Ver’s refusal to pay the debt, which had nearly doubled to $84 million.
Ver denied owing CoinFLEX and instead alleged the now-bankrupt exchange actually left him out of pocket.
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Source: https://blockworks.co/news/roger-ver-says-he-wont-pay-genesis-20m-for-bad-trades