Sexual Misconduct Allegations Emerge Against Bitcoin Coder Peter Todd

Former Bitcoin Core developer Peter Todd filed a defamation suit in April demanding the deletion of a tweet that accused him of sexual misconduct.

One alleged victim, "Jane Doe," stated she stopped contributing to bitcoin projects in order to avoid Todd.

Several conferences have received complaints about Todd, citing such allegations of sexual misconduct.

Publicly filed court documents have now revealed specific allegations of sexual misconduct involving former Bitcoin Core developer Peter Todd.

Todd sued transgender cryptographer Isis Agora Lovecruft for defamation in a California court in April, demanding they delete a tweet calling Todd a "Rapist." This week, Lovecruft moved to dismiss the complaint, and both Lovecruft and zcash co-founder Zooko Wilcox filed declarations in court describing Todd's alleged behavior.

In their declaration, Lovecruft accused Todd of sexual harassment, including unwelcome and violent sexual statements during consulting work on a bitcoin project.

Todd has long been one of the most active contributors to the Bitcoin Core project and was also involved in the launch of zcash in 2016.

Several of the sources, including one of the alleged victims mentioned in the Todd court documents, told CoinDesk their private testimonies of misconduct were either dismissed or led to retaliation.

An anonymous complaint was submitted to the MIT Bitcoin Expo in March for allowing Todd to speak, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

The source also said Todd did not speak at the Monero Konferenco in June because of allegations of sexual misconduct.