Prominent crypto critic says someone offered bribes to take down a blog post
Reading Time: < 1 minutesIn August, the crypto news website Web3 Is Going Just Great published a post about the arrest of Roman Ziemian, the founder of crypto trading platform FutureNet, which is alleged to have defrauded victims out of a combined $21 million.
For the news site’s administrator, Molly White, a software engineer and one of the world’s fiercest critics of the crypto industry, that was a routine post. For years, White has documented frauds, hacks, and scams perpetrated by influences, crypto project founders, and web3 companies on the website.
Then, last week, things got a bit less routine.
On October 18, a person who did not identify themselves but claimed to run a ‘reputation management company’ that cleans up ‘clients image over the internet,’ asked White to remove her X post about FutureNet and Ziemian, ‘which is about my client.’
Woods included a link to a Blogspot website called ‘WP Media News’ that shows the exact word-for-word content from White’s post, allegedly from August 18, 2024, a day before White’s post and purportedly written by Woods themselves.
White told the purported lawyer that, ‘there are penalties for filing false DMCA claims.’ Woods responded by offering White $100 to ‘permanently remove’ the same blog post about Ziemian.
White declined the offer.
‘If I did that, I suspect there wouldn’t be much left on my website,’ said White.
Ref: techcrunch
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