2023-06-19
An NFT trader called MachiBigBrother, also known as Jeffrey Huang has sued ZachXBT, a blockchain detective, after ZachXBT published a report last year alleging Huang embezzled 22,000 ETH from Formosa Financial in 2018 which defame his reputation.
Huang along with George Hsieh, Czhang Lin, and Ryan
Terribilini founded Formosa Financial, a treasury management platform built for
blockchain companies. Formosa Financial raised 22,000 ETH from investors.
The
lawsuit has been filed on June 16 in the U.S. District Court for the Western
District of Texas.
XachXBT published an article “22,000 ETH Embezzled and Over Ten Projects Failed: TheStory of Machi Big Brother (Jeff Huang)”
alleging Huang embezzled 22,000 ETH.
Currently,
ZachXBT has received over $1 million in donations from people in the crypto community to fight against the
lawsuit. Some of the donations come from famous people in crypto such as
Changpeng Zhao and Justin Sun.
ZachXBT
is one of the most famous crypto investigators. His work involves tracking rug
pulls, scams, hacks, exploits in the crypto space which help crypto industry
more transparent.