Bitboy has not yet dropped his lawsuit against Atozy

Benjamin Armstrong, popularly known arsenic “Bitboy,” has not yet dropped the defamation suit against YouTuber Atozy, contempt publicly declaring to bash truthful connected Aug. 25, Atozy said successful a tweet connected Aug. 26.

Bad news.
The Bitboy concern is not over.
Received this from my lawyer conscionable now… pic.twitter.com/p4diYGxC7L

— atozy (@atozy) August 26, 2022

According to the tweet, Armstrong filed a “return of service” connected Aug. 25, to which Erling “Atozy” Mengshoel is expected to respond by Sept. 12.

Atozy had received $200,000 successful donations to money his defence successful effect to his crowdfunding appeal, including $100,000 from crypto trader Cobie. In effect to Armstrong’s nationalist declaration of dropping the lawsuit, Mengshoel had promised to refund each donations.

However, amid the contiguous confusion, Cobie has pledged different $100,000 to enactment Mengshoel’s defense.

But Armstrong told CryptoSlate that dropping the suit is simply a “process” and volition instrumentality time. He said:

“Speaking with lawyer today. Will beryllium officially dropped by aboriginal adjacent week. It’s a process.”

Jake Chervinsky, a lawyer and caput of argumentation astatine Blockchain Association, however, said that it takes 5 minutes to record a announcement of dismissal, which Armstrong is yet to do.

It sometimes takes the tribunal a fewer days to station filings connected the nationalist docket, truthful it's imaginable the instrumentality was filed connected 8/22 and conscionable not posted until 8/25…

…but it besides takes similar 5 minutes for a plaintiff to record a announcement of dismissal, which appears not to beryllium done yet

— Jake Chervinsky (@jchervinsky) August 26, 2022

In a video connected Aug. 25, Armstrong said that helium lone wanted the defamatory video to beryllium taken down and apologized to Mengshoel that helium had to “go done this.” He added that helium ne'er intended the suit to go nationalist and requested Mengshoel to “remove the video” oregon “edit the incorrect parts.”

The station Bitboy has not yet dropped his suit against Atozy appeared archetypal connected CryptoSlate.