Bitcoin Cash developer who drove a tank through Virginia found not guilty

A Bitcoin Cash developer who drove a tank-like vehicle through Virginia was found not guilty for car theft and violating bond conditions on grounds of insanity, a court heard Monday. 

Police caught Lieutenant Joshua Yabut, an Army National Guard officer, who stole a M577 armored command vehicle from a military base in Virginia, at the end of a 60-mile drug-fuelled chase in June last year. Nobody was injured at the time but it caused widespread disruption.

His defense attorney, Amy Austin, said he was “laboring in mental illness that had him believing things that weren’t reality.”

Yabut had also been accused of violating bond conditions after visiting Iraq earlier this year to research bomb-making.

Joshua Yabut helped to code the main software implementation of Bitcoin Cash—BitcoinABC—and co-founded ZClassic, a failed hard fork of privacy coin ZCash. Before working for the National Guard, Yabut also worked as an unpaid software developer for Horizen, then called ZenCash….