
In May of last year, two brothers in their 20s were arrested for what the Justice Department at the time called “attacking the Ethereum blockchain and stealing $25 million.” Attacking the blockchain does sound like a cool, sci-fi crime, but the brothers maintained that they were just aggressive traders, not criminals, and yesterday, their prosecution culminated in what sounds like a very stressful mistrial.
The prosecution’s case was that Anton Peraire-Bueno and James…








