{"id":10757,"date":"2023-07-16T10:38:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T08:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/16\/extremist-friendly-tech-company-closes-after-fine-for-securities-fraud\/"},"modified":"2023-07-16T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T08:38:13","slug":"extremist-friendly-tech-company-closes-after-fine-for-securities-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/16\/extremist-friendly-tech-company-closes-after-fine-for-securities-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremist-friendly tech company closes after fine for securities fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say LBRY\u2019s failure casts shadow on future of other \u2018alt-tech\u2019 sites as Twitter becomes more receptive to far right<\/p>\n<p>LBRY, the company whose video-sharing technology and bespoke cryptocurrency once powered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/14\/odysee-video-platform-nazi-content-not-grounds-for-removal\">extremist-friendly video platform Odysee<\/a>, announced on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBRYcom\/status\/1678866789407551489\">Twitter<\/a> this week that it would <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBRYcom\/status\/1678866789407551489\">close its doors<\/a> after a federal judge in New Hampshire fined the firm more than $111,000 for securities fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement saw the value of its LBRY Credit (LBC) cryptocurrency \u2013 which was at the center of the Security and Exchange Commission\u2019s (SEC\u2019s) two-year prosecution of the company \u2013 sink to around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinbase.com\/price\/library-credits\">1\/3000th of a cent<\/a> by Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jul\/16\/lbry-closes-odysee-cryptocurrency-tech-sec-fraud-extremist\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6262d1d4f3e34ae340ee49b842ad7f10ead238db\/0_119_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ffc78445242df54eb683e2ddb0c33a5d\" title=\"Extremist-friendly tech company closes after fine for securities fraud\" \/>Experts say LBRY\u2019s failure casts shadow on future of other \u2018alt-tech\u2019 sites as Twitter becomes more receptive to far right<br \/>\nLBRY, the company whose video-sharing technology and bespoke cryptocurrency once powered the extremist-friendly video platform Odysee, announced on Twitter this week that it would close its doors after a federal judge in New Hampshire fined the firm more than $111,000 for securities fraud.<br \/>\nThe announcement saw the value of its LBRY Credit (LBC) cryptocurrency \u2013 which was at the center of the Security and Exchange Commission\u2019s (SEC\u2019s) two-year prosecution of the company \u2013 sink to around 1\/3000th of a cent by Thursday night. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say LBRY\u2019s failure casts shadow on future of other \u2018alt-tech\u2019 sites as Twitter becomes more receptive to far right LBRY, the company whose video-sharing technology and bespoke cryptocurrency once powered the extremist-friendly video platform Odysee, announced on Twitter this week that it would close its doors after a federal judge in New Hampshire fined &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/16\/extremist-friendly-tech-company-closes-after-fine-for-securities-fraud\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Extremist-friendly tech company closes after fine for securities fraud<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}