BCB Cheyenne LLC v. MineOne Wyoming Data Center LLC — Entry #386: Joint and Stipulated Motion to Distribute Funds and Accrued Interest in the Court Registry by Plaintiff BCB Cheyenne LLC

Case 1:23-cv-00079-ABJ        Document 386-1       Filed 10/15/24   Page 1 of 3


                       IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

                           FOR THE DISTRICT OF WYOMING

BCB CHEYENNE LLC d/b/a BISON                         )
BLOCKCHAIN, a Wyoming limited liability              )
Company,                      .                      )
                                                     )
        Plaintiff,                                   )
                                                     )
v.                                                   )    Civil No. 23-CV-79
                                                     )
MINEONE WYOMING DATA CENTER,                         )
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company;           )
MINEONE PARTNERS LLC, a Delaware                     )
limited liability company; TERRA CRYPTO              )
INC., a Delaware corporation; BIT ORIGIN,            )
LTD, a Cayman Island Company;                        )
SONICHASH LLC, a Delaware limited                    )
liability company; BITMAIN                           )
TECHNOLOGIES HOLDING COMPANY,                        )
A Cayman Island Company; BITMAIN                     )
TECHNOLOGIES GEORGIA LIMITED,                        )
a Georgia corporation; and JOHN DOES 1-18,           )
related persons and companies who control            )
or direct some or all of the named Defendants,       )
                                                     )
        Defendants.                                  )


     ORDER DIRECTING THE CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT TO DISTRIBUTE
     ALL OF THE ATTACHED FUNDS AND ACCRUED INTEREST BEING HELD BY
       THE CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT PURSUANT TO THIS COURT’S
     AMENDED PREJUDGMENT WRITS OF ATTACHMENT AND GARNISHMENT


        THIS MATTER comes before the Court on the Parties’ Joint and Stipulated Motion To

Distribute All Of The Attached Funds And Accrued Interest Being Held By The Clerk Of The

District Court Pursuant To This Court’s Amended Prejudgment Writs Of Attachment And

Garnishment (“Stipulated Motion”).

            1. The Court has carefully reviewed the Stipulated Motion.


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          2. The Court is also advised that all of the Parties have now reached, and signed, their

              written Settlement Agreement and Mutual Releases (“Settlement Agreement”).

              Pursuant to their Settlement Agreement, the Parties will soon be filing their

              Stipulation of Dismissal with Prejudice and asking the Court to enter its Order of

              Dismissal with Prejudice.

          3. The Court is further advised that the Parties have now agreed, and memorialized in

              their Settlement Agreement, that the prejudgment attached funds being held and

              invested by the Clerk of the District Court pursuant to this Court’s earlier orders

              should now be distributed by the Clerk of the District Court to MineOne Wyoming

              Data Center LLC and BCB Cheyenne LLC, respectively, as follows:

                 a. To MineOne Wyoming Data Center LLC the sum of $11,177,292.79; and

                 b. To BCB Cheyenne LLC the sum of $4,100,000.00.

              Any remaining balance held in the Court’s Registry after the distributions above

              shall be used to satisfy any interest and/or fees owing to the Court, and any balance

              remaining after satisfying any interest and/or fees owing to the Court shall be

              distributed to MineOne Wyoming Data Center LLC.

          4. The Court expressly approves the Parties’ Stipulated Motion for the immediate

              disbursement of the attached prejudgment funds as described above.

          5. The Court FINDS that there is good cause shown, and the interests of justice are

              best served, by having the Clerk of the District Court immediately disperse to

              MineOne Wyoming Data Center LLC and BCB Cheyenne LLC the attached funds

              being held and invested by the Clerk of the District Court as described above.

       IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that the Clerk of the District Court for the District of

Wyoming shall immediately disburse the attached funds being held by the Clerk of the District


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Court pursuant to this Court’s original and amended Prejudgment Writs of Attachment and

Garnishment, as follows:

       A. To MineOne Wyoming Data Center LLC the sum of $11,177,292.79; and

       B. To BCB Cheyenne LLC the sum of $4,100,000.00.

Any remaining balance held in the Court’s Registry after the distributions above shall be used to

satisfy any interest and/or fees owing to the Court, and any balance remaining after satisfying any

interest and/or fees owing to the Court shall be distributed to MineOne Wyoming Data Center

LLC; and

       IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that once all of the attached funds have been distributed by

the Clerk of the District Court above, this Court’s Prejudgment Writs of Attachment and

Garnishment shall be considered dissolved.


       DATED this _____ day of October, 2024.


                                      BY THE COURT:         ______________________
                                                            Alan B. Johnson
                                                            United States District Judge


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