[plorg]

What if it was more like

- You owe me $25

- I only keep my money in bitcoin

- Well, I don't do that bitcoin thing, and I don't really want to set a whole thing just to transfer the money

- OK, I could get it for you in cash, but you'll have to give me a few days

...a few days later

- Uhh...so about that money

- Oh, haven't gotten around to transferring that

- OK, but I could use it. Or, I could borrow your phone and talk to Steve: he'll trade me cash for bitcoin.

- But then you could take all of my bitcoins.

- I'm not going to do that

- But I can't trust you

- Then why should I trust you to pay me?

[scintill76]

Agreed, I feel like Levison lost a lot of credibility and damaged his case by dragging his feet initially. However when the judge said "why should we trust you?" he didn't explicitly tie it into that history. Perhaps in context it was a given. It seemed the opposing attorney immediately after argued that Levison couldn't be trusted, because he'd delayed on prior orders, and the judge agreed.