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From wikipedia: In February 2012, Ayre and three other individuals were indicted by the US Attorney for Maryland on charges of illegal gambling and money laundering related to conduct that occurred before the 2006 passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). Ayre released a statement via CalvinAyre.com saying he viewed the indictment as "abuse of the US criminal justice system for the commercial gain of large US corporations." Ayre also noted that the US Attorney had seized Bodog.com, a domain that had been dormant since the Bodog brand revoked its licensing agreement with MMGG the previous year.[30][31]

In July 2017, US federal prosecutors dropped the remaining charges against Ayre and Bodog[32] after Ayre pled guilty to a single misdemeanor charge and admitted to an accessory after the fact charge related to the transmission of gambling information in violation of the federal Wire Act.[1] The Bodog.com domain has since been returned to its owners with an accompanying payment of $100,000, after it had been seized by US federal prosecutors as part of the criminal case.[33] Judge Catherine Blake sentenced Ayre to one year of unsupervised probation and a $500,000 fine.[1]

In September 2017, think tank Democracy Institute published Patrick Basham's case study [34] slamming US trade hypocrisy over online gambling dispute with Antigua-Barbuda. The report calls the US government's prosecution of Ayre highly irregular, ill-advised, and unsuccessful.[35] The study states that Ayre's conviction ran afoul of the WTO's ruling as to America's General Agreement on Trade in Services obligations. The WTO's Appellate Body Report found America undertook a commitment to provide open and nondiscriminatory market access for recreational services, "including online gambling services." [36]

>>12062097
Critically, it found that The Illegal Gambling Business Act, which made it illegal for anyone to conduct a gambling business, was explicitly in conflict with America’s commitment under subsection 10D. Hence, the Appellate Body Report concluded that America was in violation of its obligations under its GATS Schedule by maintaining and enforcing these laws.[34]

The review claims that law enforcement officials tried to intimidate Ayre years before the indictments against him were filed, and that prosecutors "…covertly reached out to Ayre through respective third parties … including Ayre’s known business associates and industry contacts, to ‘encourage’ Ayre to make a US$350 million payment to the US Treasury." [37]

The government of Antigua and Barbuda welcomed Ayre’s vindication as part of the failure of the US to comply with World Trade Organization ruling on Internet Gaming.[38] The twin islands government said in a statement, "In light of the WTO ruling in Antigua and Barbuda’s favour, prosecutions by the United States of licensed gaming entities and their principals in Antigua and Barbuda, such as Calvin Ayre, are completely contrary to binding international agreements. In this context, Calvin Ayre and all other Antigua and Barbuda licensed gaming operators, who were indicted in the United States on Internet Gaming charges, are victims not culprits." [39]

>>12062097
>>12062102
I don't care what your goberment says nor you laws
>>12062095
those fucks just ran out of money, BTC is way bigger than them

This has to be spread as much as possible, Ayre is literally printing for people free money by making predictable moves.

>>12062120
>those fucks just ran out of money, BTC is way bigger than them
How the F can that be good for BTC? It means BTC was co-opted, you moron, it'll never be a currency.

>>12062095
Hodl your BTC BCHSV and BCHABC let them fuck each other in the ass.
Afterwards when one is still standing fuck him in the ass.

>>12062128
it is what it is, you have break away from the control indoctrination
it is possible that someone with 100 000 billion will come and lose all his money to kill BTC, just price wise
it is fine, then we will move to another chain, and then another.

>>12062162
>then we will move to another chain, and then another.
No you can't. Don't you realize what they're doing? They're killing every chain that's not approved when it's still small. And yes, BSV declared it'll attack other coins eventually, specifically ETH.

https://cryptobriefing.com/florida-man-judge-begged-to-reverse-bitcoin-cash-fork/


This is getting really surreal.....

>>12062249
first, you don't have the hash to do shit
then went after the smallest coins first and they failed

if you do a money attack, buy high, sell you, you will be feeding the price trolls and ultimately make somebody else rich and you will lose all your money

we can have infinite amount of forks and chains and algos

you can't be seriously that stiff