Atozy thanks Crypto Community and responds to BitBoy U-Turn
In a video to close the book on the Ben Armstrong (BitBoy) defamation case for good, Erling Mengshoel (Atozy) thanked prominent members of the crypto community for their help in fighting the case.
Among those whom Atozy singled out for special praise were Just up crypto podcast host Cobieand crypto scout ZachXBT. Atozy went on to state his belief that without community support, BitBoy would have continued to pursue the case, which he could ill afford to handle on his own.
The wildest week for Atozy
In a video released on Tuesday, Mengshoel expressed his gratitude to the many people who helped him raise $200,000 to fight the case brought by Armstrong.
According to the initial lawsuit filed by Armstrong’s legal team, Mengshoel had defamed the influencer in a previous video in November 2021. In it, Mengshoel accused Armstrong of cheating his fans and being a “scum bag”.
Mengshoel has now revealed that his girlfriend went into labor within hours of being served with the legal papers. It set in motion a series of events that would lead Mengshoel to say, “I’ve had the wildest week of my life.”
Mengshoel states that even as the legal case progressed, and the community got going, he and his partner welcomed a son into the world. He described the legal fundraiser as a “Hail Mary” born out of the sheer desperation of his situation.
Bitboy rejoices, but not for long
At first, the appeal was slow to take off. This encouraged Armstrong to send Mengshoel a series of happy tweets telling Mengshoel, “the gains just keep getting bigger.” Armstrong went on to mock the financial influence of Mengshoel’s audience, among other things.
None of Armstrong’s tweets appeared to convey the fragile emotional state cited in his earlier legal filing.
At this point, however, the backlash began to build. Cobie first informed Mengshoel that he had purchased the atozy.eth domain name for him. Cobie then proceeded to add $100,000 of his own money to the defense fund. Mengshoel went on to raise another £100,000 in legal defense before BitBoy dropped the case.
“I want to thank Cobie for donating way too much money, and I also want to thank ZachXBT, because he will help me refund everyone on the crypto side of things,” Mengshoel said.
He went on to add that “if this didn’t go super public and I didn’t raise a whole bunch of money, I probably would have been dragged into court.”
Thanks to the intervention of the wider crypto community, the mining stopped and the case was dropped.
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