The United States Supreme Court has overridden Coinbase’s user agreement, allowing district courts to settle sweepstakes disputes involving Dogecoin rewards.

美國最高法院推翻了 Coinbase 的用戶協議，允許地方法院解決涉及狗狗幣獎勵的抽獎糾紛。

Crypto exchange Coinbase launched a Dogecoin (DOGE) sweepstakes promotional event in June 2021. The user agreement had conflicting clauses regarding dispute resolution.

加密貨幣交易所 Coinbase 於 2021 年 6 月推出了狗狗幣（DOGE）抽獎促銷活動。

Coinbase preferred arbitrators to resolve financial disputes, while users favored court intervention. Both options were separately outlined in the platform’s agreements.

Coinbase 更傾向於仲裁者來解決金融糾紛，而用戶則傾向於法院幹預。平台協議中分別概述了這兩種選擇。

On May 23, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state and federal courts will have sole jurisdiction over controversies regarding Coinbase’s sweepstakes promotion.

5 月 23 日，美國最高法院裁定，州法院和聯邦法院對 Coinbase 抽獎活動的爭議擁有唯一管轄權。

“We conclude that a court, not an arbitrator, must decide whether the parties’ first agreement was superseded by their second. The Ninth Circuit’s judgment is affirmed.”

「我們的結論是，必須由法院而不是仲裁員來決定雙方的第一項協議是否被第二項協議取代。維持第九巡迴法院的判決。

In tandem, Justice Neil Gorsuch, nominated by President Donald Trump in 2017, highlighted that arbitration is a matter of contract. Additionally, he reminded:

同時，唐納德·川普總統於 2017 年提名的尼爾·戈薩奇法官也強調仲裁是一個合約問題。此外，他還提醒：

“Parties (crypto exchanges and users) can agree by contract that an arbitrator, rather than a court, will resolve threshold arbitrability questions as well as underlying merits disputes.”

「各方（加密貨幣交易所和用戶）可以透過合約同意由仲裁員而不是法院來解決可仲裁性問題以及潛在的實體爭議。」

The Supreme Court finally refuted Coinbase’s previous claims that the court’s approach could “invite chaos” by facilitating challenges to delegation clauses. “We do not believe that such chaos will follow,” the ruling added.

最高法院最終駁斥了 Coinbase 先前的說法，即法院的做法可能會透過促進對授權條款的挑戰來「引發混亂」。 「我們不相信這種混亂會隨之而來，」裁決補充道。

Courts in the United States are not authorized to intervene in disputes when contracts contain an arbitration clause only.

當合約僅包含仲裁條款時，美國法院無權介入爭議。

However, when users agree on two contracts — one sending arbitrability disputes to arbitration, and the other either explicitly or implicitly sending arbitrability disputes to the courts — a court must decide which contract governs.

然而，當使用者同意兩份合約時——一份將可仲裁性爭議提交仲裁，另一份明確或暗示將可仲裁性爭議提交法院——法院必須決定哪份合約適用。

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有關的：

• Coinbase reopens XRP trading in New York
• Coinbase recently suffered a major outage that impacted its trading services mobile and desktop applications.

Coinbase 在紐約重新開放 XRP 交易Coinbase 最近遭遇了一次重大中斷，影響了其交易服務行動和桌面應用程式。

Coinbase notice on system-wide outage and degraded transactions. Source: Mozilla

Coinbase 關於系統範圍內的中斷和交易降級的通知。來源：Mozilla

Coinbase Support’s official Twitter account posted about the outage on May 14. It said it was investigating the issue and working on a solution. The account reiterated that users’ funds were safe.

Coinbase 支援的官方 Twitter 帳戶於 5 月 14 日發布了有關此次中斷的資訊。該帳戶重申用戶的資金是安全的。

Cointelegraph visited the website, which showed a “503 Service Temporarily Unavailable” error message. According to a developer guide found on Mozilla, the most common cause is that the servers are down for maintenance or that is overloaded.

Cointelegraph 造訪網站，顯示「503 服務暫時無法使用」錯誤訊息。根據 Mozilla 上的開發人員指南，最常見的原因是伺服器因維護而停機或過載。

Magazine: Godzilla vs. Kong: SEC faces fierce battle against crypto’s legal firepower

雜誌：《哥吉拉 vs. Kong》：美國證券交易委員會 (SEC) 面臨著針對加密貨幣法律火力的激烈戰鬥