David Pimentel

David Pimentel is a technology reporter with BlockTribune. Before joining BlockTribune in 2015, David was a staffer at Local Labs, the largest hyperlocal data and news producer in the United States. While there, he reported on local real estate transactions and sourced public record data for dozens of markets.

David was born in the Philippines where he studied Hotel and Restaurant Management at the National College of Business and Arts (NCBA).

David can be contacted at [email protected]


Recent posts by David Pimentel

Creditors of Defunct Crypto Firm Voyager Face April Deadline to Claim $19M in Uncashed Distribution Checks

News | March 18, 2024 By:

On Monday, March 4, 2024, Paul R. Hage, the wind-down administrator for defunct cryptocurrency brokerage Voyager Digital Holdings Inc., notified the bankruptcy court that $19 million worth of distribution checks sent to Voyager creditors last year remain uncashed. The administrator set an April 20 deadline for creditors to deposit the checks or forfeit their recovery amounts.

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Crypto Exchange Coinbase Challenges SEC Reliance on “One-Sided” Insider Trading Judgment

News | March 18, 2024 By:

On Tuesday, March 5, 2024, crypto exchange Coinbase pushed back against the Securities and Exchange Commission’s reliance on a Washington federal court’s recent default judgment in an insider trading case.

Coinbase told Judge Katherine Polk Failla of the New York federal court overseeing the SEC’s enforcement action against Coinbase that the default judgment in SEC v.

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Woman Awarded $1M in Default Judgment Against Crypto Scammers Posing as Digital Currency Group Employees

News | March 15, 2024 By:

On Tuesday, March 5, 2024, the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida issued a Final Default Judgment in favor of plaintiff Shikha Dubey in a cryptocurrency fraud lawsuit.

According to court documents, Dubey claimed she was defrauded of over $1 million in cryptocurrency by a group of defendants led by an individual known as Defendant “1,”

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Judge Sides with Crypto Exchange Gemini, Orders Arbitration in Earn Program Lawsuit

News | March 14, 2024 By:

On Tuesday, March 5, 2024, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a motion to compel arbitration in a dispute between Gemini Trust Company and several individuals who held accounts on the cryptocurrency exchange.

The case originated in late 2022 when plaintiffs Brendan Picha and Max Hastings filed a purported class action against Gemini Trust,

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