A landmark legal case involving a music site developer who added a mining widget that mines monero (XMR) to his website will hit the Supreme Court in Japan at the end of the year – with the potential for a legal precedent-setting verdict.
The case dates back to late 2017, when the Yokohama-based man (aged 34) admitted he used a Coinhive-developed app on his websites that led visitors to mine monero. The app distributed 30% of the coins mined to developers and 70% to the site publisher. Police in 2018 claimed that the app and others like it were a “virus,” and exacted a nationwide crackdown on mining-related software. The man was hit with a fine of over USD 900, but he has been fighting the verdict ever since, first taking the case through
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