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2024-5-30 16:31 |
Nine years to the day after his life sentence, Ross Ulbricht’s controversial case may finally see a turn as Trump pledges to commute the sentence of the Bitcoin pioneer. origin »
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Jian Wen, a 42-year-old British-Chinese woman, has been handed a sentence of six years and eight months in prison for her involvement in a 61,000 Bitcoins (BTC) money laundering scheme valued at around $4 billion.
2024-5-26 22:44 | |
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A British-Chinese woman who helped to launder the ill-gotten funds of a criminal mastermind has been sentenced to six years behind bars
2024-5-25 23:51 | |
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Binance founder receives four-month jail sentence as regulatory efforts endure, Bitcoin faces a rollercoaster ride amid outflows from spot Bitcoin ETFs.
2024-5-5 17:40 | |
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Weekly Recap: Significant legal developments across the cryptocurrency sector, including SBF's sentencing, regulators' demanding $2b from Ripple, and an indictment against KuCoin.
2024-4-1 21:58 | |
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The CEO of a Las Vegas Internet company could face a 127-year prison sentence following his conviction for laundering over $4 million with Bitcoin, funds connected to Mexican cartels, and a hacked charity, according to the Department of Justice. Martin…
2024-3-7 12:43 | |
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Zhong is now serving a one-year sentence related to the theft of bitcoin from the Silk Road marketplace.
2023-10-19 21:23 | |
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To many Bitcoin believers, the unjust sentence for Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht remains a miscarriage of justice. Will the next U.S. president agree?
2023-10-2 16:32 | |
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Current prediction market contracts revolve around FTX bankruptcy claim recoveries, the future of bitcoin ETFs, and Sam Bankman-Fried’s jail sentence.
2023-9-13 08:42 | |
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Former Chinese party official, Xiao Yi, received a life sentence for bribery and abuse of power, including supporting Bitcoin mining operations, causing "heavy losses" to public property and national interests.
2023-8-23 08:30 | |
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A former supporter of the Bitcoin mining industry and official in several of China’s regional government positions was sentenced by a court in the Zhenjiang Province. Xiao Yi was found guilty of abusing power and accepting over $20 million in bribes while serving as a public agent.
2023-8-22 22:00 | |
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Roger Thomas Clark, also known as “Plural of Mongoose,” “Variety Jones,” “VJ,” and “cimon,” has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role as the top adviser to Ross Ulbricht, the owner and operator of the Silk Road online illicit black market.
2023-7-12 04:00 | |
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A Georgia resident has been sentenced to one year in prison following a $3. 4 billion Bitcoin theft, the U. S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York announced April 14. Zhong stole billions in BTC in 2012 The authorities said that James Zhong first committed wire fraud against Silk Road in 2012.
2023-4-15 01:19 | |
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Ross Ulbricht, founder of darknet bitcoin marketplace Silk Road, is auctioning a series of art created while serving his life sentence.
2022-4-7 15:00 | |
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UK resident from Nuneaton has been charged for importing illegal drugs bought with Bitcoin; he will now serve a two-year prison sentence. Authorities alleged that the resident named Dylan Bailey, who The post UK teen paid Bitcoin for ecstasy on dark web; faces 2 years in prison appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-2-12 00:30 | |
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Lawyers of the alleged $4 billion Bitcoin launderer appeal to the court, arguing that Alexander Vinnik was just an employee at BTC-e.
2020-12-20 18:39 | |
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A former software engineer at Microsoft has been sentenced to nine years in prison after he devised a complex scheme, involving bitcoin, to steal over $10 million from his former employer. Ukrainian national Volodymyr Kvashu, 26, was charged by a Seattle District court with 18 felonies including identity theft and money laundering. According to a […]
2020-11-11 20:56 | |
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Discussions involving Gold and Bitcoin in the same sentence are never far from making the headlines. Both the non-yielding assets have made significant strides in 2020 as the traditional stock markThe post Bitcoin-Gold high correlation does not indicate parallel market appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-8-8 01:00 | |
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Russia has always been an interesting country when it comes to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. A new proposed law would make it illegal to buy BTC with cash, and potentially lead to a seven-year jail sentence.
2020-5-26 18:00 | |
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U.S. citizen gets 13-year sentence for funding ISIS using Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
2020-3-14 01:06 | |
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Mathew Thomas gets one year of jail time after defrauding his clients of $200,000
2020-2-8 18:15 | |
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According to a recent letter filed by Mark Scott’s counsel, the OneCoin co-conspirator is trying to get his sentencing postponed until the 21st of April. The crypto space is filled with reports of scams, most of which took place back in the days when Bitcoin was surging towards its all-time high of $20,000.
2020-1-26 12:09 | |
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A South Korean district court has sentenced executives of a local crypto exchange to prison. The CEO of the exchange got a 16-year jail sentence while other executives and their accomplices got between six and 11 years.
2019-11-13 15:20 | |
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A woman from East Hollywood, California, has been convicted of robbery relating to peer-to-peer Bitcoin trades. Precious Lanay Fitzgerald was one of two involved in the incidents that awarded the pair the moniker ‘Discount Bitcoin Bandits’.
2019-11-9 22:00 | |
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A nuclear lab researcher in Russia will reportedly be serving three years in a prison colony for allegedly using government equipment to illegally mine Bitcoin (BTC). Andrey Rybkin, a nuclear scientist working at the All-Russian...
2019-10-26 11:56 | |
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The last of three Russian scientists caught illegally mining bitcoin at a top-secret nuclear lab has been given a prison sentence.
2019-10-25 12:30 | |
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A 23-year-old South Korean man is being accused of running the world’s “largest child sexual exploitation market,” which reportedly processed 7,300 Bitcoin transactions worth over $730,000. According to a criminal indictment unsealed today, the now-defunct English-language website known as “Welcome To Video,” featured over 250,000 child exploitation videos – approximately eight terabytes worth of horrific material.
2019-10-16 18:32 | |
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A father and daughter have received a combined prison sentence of eight years after selling drugs in exchange for Bitcoin on the dark web. Brittany Nicole Green, sentenced to five years, and her father Gregory, who will spend three years behind bars, ran a mail-order drug operation from their home in Billings (Montana).
2019-10-4 12:51 | |
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This weekend has been more tumultuous than usual. Bitcoin briefly crashed back below $8000, touching a low of $7700 before recovering back today. The other coins find themselves following Bitcoin through varying degrees of correlation, with the notable exceptions of XRP and Algorand.
2019-9-30 19:11 | |
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An Australian national living in Boulder, Colorado was slammed with a one year and a day prison sentence last month for trading bitcoins. An August 23 statement from the Colorado U.S. District Attorney’s Office states that Emilio Testa, 32, was charged with money laundering, and claims Testa knew the funds he was acquiring had been […] The post ‘We’re Going to Find You’ – How Undercover Agents Trade Prison Time for Bitcoins appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-9-2 18:00 | |
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A dark web kingpin has forfeited $4 million, including Bitcoin and 100 quadrillion Zimbabwe bank notes after selling drugs to an undercover cop via encrypted email. Richard Castro, of Windermere (Florida), pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute three controlled substances – carfentanil, phenyl fentanyl, and fentanyl.
2019-7-29 12:38 | |
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Irish man Gary Davis, also known as “Libertas,” has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for helping to run the now defunct Silk Road website on the dark web. The Irish national, who was extradited to the US in July last year, was arrested in January 2014.
2019-7-26 17:35 | |
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A man who frequently flaunted his wealth on social media has been found guilty of importing and trafficking drugs purchased with Bitcoin on the dark web. Brendan Leigh Baker, 27, a former cafe owner in Canberra, was found guilty in the ACT Supreme Court this week.
2019-6-19 13:04 | |
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By CCN Markets: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has denied knowledge of a proposed bill which would see Bitcoin and crypto ownership in India made entirely illegal. Reports surfaced last week that lawmakers in India were working on legislation that could carry a 10-year prison sentence for anyone caught holding cryptocurrency.
2019-6-17 12:23 | |
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A US man who sold narcotics on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Tyler Reeves, who sold the drugs under the moniker “Platinum45,” was sentenced on Monday by by United States District Judge James V.
2019-6-13 12:34 | |
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This week, a report claims that certain government departments across the country are supporting an outright ban on the “sale, purchase and issuance of all types” or crypto including Bitcoin, and could lead to a jail sentence for up to 10-years in prison for using the digital asset class as its intended.
2019-6-8 04:02 | |
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India may become the first major country in the world to criminalize the mining, holding or selling of bitcoin and other cryptos according to Bloomberg’s Indian unit which says: “The...
2019-6-7 16:38 | |
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By CCN: Lawmakers in India have proposed a bill which would see Bitcoin and crypto ownership made completely illegal, with as much as a 10-year prison sentence for anyone caught holding. This coincides directly with India’s plans to launch its own state-backed cryptocurrency – the Digital Rupee.
2019-6-7 13:19 | |
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Morgan Rockcoons, a Nevadan man accused of wire fraud and operating an unlicensed Bitcoin exchange for using LocalBitcoins, was sentenced to nearly two years in prison. According to a government press release, Rockcoons will also have to forfeit $80,600 in illicit profits.
2019-6-1 19:53 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) is not a currency in the strict sense of the word and therefore falls into the category of a digital asset according to a recent sentence by the Central District Court in Lod,... The post Bitcoin (BTC) is a Taxable Asset, Not a Currency; Israeli Court Says appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2019-5-23 19:33 | |
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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged a government employee alleged to have misused government IT infrastructure for personal cryptomining operations, per a press release.
2019-5-22 18:47 | |
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Free Ross Ulbricht campaign gained significant momentum lately, owing to the sheer number of crypto luminaries coming out in support of the Silk Road creator. The collective crypto community, including prominent faces like the Bitcoin.
2019-5-19 16:00 | |
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A man in the US has been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for purchasing, downloading, and concealing child abuse imagery he got on the dark web and paid for with Bitcoin. According to court documents, starting in May 2017, Stephen P.
2019-5-17 13:55 | |
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By CCN: Roger Ver took to YouTube to read another letter from Ross Ulbricht, creator of the first darknet market using Bitcoin. The libertarian idealist used the opportunity to rail against the war on drugs.
2019-5-12 21:15 | |
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Major crypto venture capital firm Heisenberg Capital has stated its position on the future of cryptocurrencies. In a recent tweet, the company said Bitcoin (BTC) is the only cryptocurrency that will survive and will kill all the altcoins as it grows.
2019-5-7 09:17 | |
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High-profile information transparency advocate and co-founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been sentenced by a British court to 50 weeks in prison for breaching bail conditions after he was forced to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in which he has been seeking refuge since 2012.
2019-5-6 09:00 | |
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By CCN: Alexei Navalny, who attempted to run for president against Vladimir Putin and continues to be a viable Putin opponent, has raised over $3 million since he began taking Bitcoin donations in 2016.
2019-4-25 19:38 | |
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Joel Ortiz, the principal suspect in a Bitcoin theft case, has been sentenced to years in prison according to a release from the office of the District Attorney of Santa Clara County, April 22, 2019.
2019-4-24 23:00 | |
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau within the U. S. Department of the Treasury, has imposed its first-ever penalty on a peer-to-peer crypto exchange for violating AML regulations, among other violations.
2019-4-20 23:38 | |
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Bitcoin trader Jacob Burrell Campos was sentenced on April 8, 2019, to serve a two-year prison sentence and to forfeit more than $800,000 “for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.
2019-4-13 18:54 | |
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