{"id":19662,"date":"2019-07-30T19:10:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe65401926c3"},"modified":"2019-07-30T19:10:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T19:10:43","slug":"peter-todd-responds-to-sexual-misconduct-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/peter-todd-responds-to-sexual-misconduct-allegations","title":{"rendered":"Peter Todd Responds to Sexual Misconduct Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In April 2019, former Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd filed a defamation suit<\/a> against Isis Agora Lovecruft in response to sexual misconduct allegations. Following a motion filed by Lovecruft to dismiss that suit, Todd\u2019s lawyers have responded with more opposition to the accusations.<\/p>\n

Todd originally filed the suit against Lovecruft for tweeting<\/a> that he, among other computer scientists, is a rapist. In the suit, Todd\u2019s lawyers state that he \u201chas never raped or sexually assaulted anyone\u201d and that he \u201chas been harmed and continues to be harmed\u201d by Lovecruft\u2019s \u201cdefamatory statements.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lovecruft then moved to strike<\/a> Todd\u2019s suit and filed a declaration<\/a> in support of the strike, as did<\/a> Zcash co-founder Bryce Wilcox (better known as Zooko), on July 15, 2019.<\/p>\n

In their declaration, Lovecruft, who is transgender, recalls a traumatizing experience in a San Francisco caf\u00e9, alleging that Todd sexually harassed them and made threatening comments. According to the declarations filed by both Lovecruft and Zooko, this was not an isolated incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn or around February 2018, Zooko connected me with two women whom I came to understand also had stories of being sexually harassed, and in one case, raped by Peter Todd,\u201d Lovecruft claims. <\/p>\n

According to Zooko\u2019s supporting declaration, Todd had \u201cpressured\u201d one of the women \u201cinto sex while she was in a mentally compromised state due to a medical condition.\u201d <\/p>\n

On July 29, 2019, Todd\u2019s legal team filed an opposition<\/a> to Lovecruft\u2019s motion to strike the defamation suit.<\/p>\n

\u201cLovecruft\u2019s defense would be compelling if it were not entirely fabricated,\u201d the opposition reads. \u201cThe evidence shows that when Lovecruft has a disagreement with somebody, Lovecruft and Lovecruft\u2019s collaborators publicly and falsely accuse that person of horrific crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The opposition goes on to allege that Lovecruft\u2019s accusations were motivated by Todd\u2019s decision not to support Lovecruft and Zooko\u2019s Zcash work in 2018 and by his criticism of the project again in 2019. It also attempts to show a pattern of correlation between the people Lovecruft accuses of sexual misconduct and the people who criticize their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lawyers for Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd have filed a response to a motion to dismiss his defamation suit over sexual misconduct allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3456,"featured_media":19663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[227,3334,3333],"class_list":["post-19662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-culture","tag-bitcoin-core","tag-zcash","tag-zooko"],"author_data":{"id":3456,"name":"Colin and Peter","nicename":"colinnpeter","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=robohash&r=g"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/peter-todd-responds-to-sexual-misconduct-accusations.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}