BTQ CEO’s Brother Blocked From Sharing Blockchain Trade Secrets

The former chief operating officer of BTQ Technologies Corp., who’s also the brother of the current CEO, was blocked by a federal judge from using two website domains to expose the blockchain software company’s trade secrets.

BTQ sufficiently demonstrated that it has been harmed by Nicolas Roussy Newton’s conduct, which includes circulating sensitive documents to media outlets and US regulators; threatening the company’s counsel at Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart and Sullivan LLP; and making defamatory statements accusing his brother Olivier Roussy Newton of “attempted murder,” according to a Tuesday order by Judge Sharad H. Desai of the US District Court for ...