2022-12-11 11:52 |
Inner Mongolian police have detained sixty-three people in connection with an alleged conspiracy to launder more than 12 billion yuan ($1.7 billion). origin »
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Chinese Police arrested a group of cryptocurrency scammers following a raid in Xuchang City. The bust, which took place five months ago, was only publicized this week after a story on CCTV News. During the break-in, police seized cash valued at $1.
2019-2-1 02:07 | |
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Several of South Korea’s top crypto exchanges have found themselves in hot water, with executives at a couple of exchanges facing criminal charges and jail time. According to a news report on the Korean website Blockinpress, the CEO of Komid, a Korean crypto exchange, has received a three-year prison sentence for committing fraud against investors by artificially inflating the exchange’s actual trading volume.
2019-1-23 00:57 | |
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Exactly a year after Thane security operatives crushed a scam cryptocurrency project worth five billion rupees, Delhi police have reportedly arrested another associate of the head of the scheme according to local media, The Indian Express on January 7, 2018.
2019-1-9 08:00 | |
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The Dutch are known for many things — windmills, tulips, washed up soccer players… and an amazing talent for producing tons of synthetic drugs. So much, in fact, that drug traffickers in the Netherlands accumulated an estimated €18,9 billion in revenue in 2017.
2018-11-29 11:36 | |
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Tokyo police arrested eight men on November 14, 2018, for a cryptocurrency-related pyramid scheme that scammed 6,000 people of 7. 8 billion yen (approximately $68. 42 million). According to Japanese News company Asahi Shimbun on November 16, 2018, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department suspected that the arrested men might have violated the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law as they failed to register their.
2018-11-18 02:00 | |
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The Asahi Shimbun reported on Nov. 14th that eight men in Tokyo were allegedly arrested by the police for involvement in a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that netted 7. 8 billion yen ($68. 42 million) from 6,000 unsuspecting people in 44 prefectures.
2018-11-16 14:34 | |
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How can I steal thee? Let me count the ways. The recent theft of more than one billion Crowd Machine (CMCT) tokens is a real-time case study of whether or not law enforcement in multiple jurisdictions can coordinate with exchanges and other crypto firms to prosecute and convict sophisticated criminals who steal difficult-to-track cryptocurrencies.
2018-10-1 17:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency–The National Police Agency of Japan has released troubling news on the state of cryptocurrency-related thievery. Despite growing adoption and awareness for the industry throughout 2018, thereby leading to an improvement in security for user funds, the Japanese organization reports crypto-related thefts have cost users more than half a billion dollars.
2018-9-21 04:42 | |
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When Tokyo-based Mt. Gox got hacked to the tune of 650,000 bitcoin in 2014, Japan learned early on the tough lessons of cryptocurrency theft. Yet, to this day, despite the country’s ongoing efforts to educate investors and ramp up oversight of crypto exchanges, it still feels the sting of hackers.
2018-9-21 23:45 | |
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Hackers have swiped over $540 million (60 billion Yen) worth of cryptocurrency from Japanese netizens over the first six months of 2018. On September 20, Japan’s National Police Agency revealed the number of cryptocurrency-related reported incidents rose to 158 – triple the amount of incidents over the same period last year, local outlet The Asahi Shimbun reports.
2018-9-20 11:47 | |
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The Chinese government has banned all commercial crypto and blockchain-related events in the region, after encouraging local financial authorities to speed up the development of blockchain technology.
2018-8-23 18:50 | |
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Murkier details of the Bitconnect cryptocurrency scam have emerged as police have arrested the head of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange. [Note: This is a guest article submitted by Bhushan Akolkar] Bitconnect — A Pyramid Scheme of Scams Last Saturday, August 18, Indian authorities arrested Divyesh Darji, the Asian head of defunct cryptocurrency exchange, in a high-profile scam worth 880 billion Indian Rupees ($12.
2018-8-21 13:00 | |
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The man behind the Asian branch of the $2. 4 billion cryptocurrency scam operation Bitconnect has been arrested by police officers on August 18, 2018, from the Gujarat Criminal Investigation Department at Delhi Airport on his return to India.
2018-8-21 00:00 | |
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A new report from Bloomberg reveals that Bittrex along with 2 other major cryptocurrency exchanges have joined the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini exchange to form the Virtual Commodity Association.
2018-8-20 22:29 | |
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BitConnect India is now at the centre of an investigation as authorities believe that the whole concept was ‘probably’ a Ponzi scheme, a scam that saw round $3 billion in investments before the ‘exchange’ closed down in January 2018.
2018-8-20 14:00 | |
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Korean law enforcement agents are now pointing their searchlight into the operations of Shinil Group, a firm that claimed to have found more than $100 billion worth of gold in a sunken Russian shipwreck.
2018-8-3 10:00 | |
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On July 10, 2018, news broke that cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized exchange Bancor was hit with a hack. A wallet the Bancor team used to update the protocol’s smart contracts was infiltrated, and the $23.
2018-8-3 19:24 | |
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“We will make electricity so cheap only the rich will burn candles,” Thomas Edison reportedly said during the first public demonstration of his light bulb. Unfortunately, it wasn’t made cheap enough.
2018-7-30 18:00 | |
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On July 11, 2018, the Chinese police apprehended over 540 people for organizing an online soccer gambling game which involved the exchange of bitcoins. The illegal betting places were conducted in south China’s Guangdong Province.
2018-7-15 14:30 | |
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Recently in the Guangdong city of China, a campaign was held by the Guangdong police against the World Bank online gambling crimes. As announced on the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department website [in Chinese], during the World Cup, an online gambling fraud of $1.
2018-7-14 13:28 | |
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In the city of Guangdong, the police have arrested hundreds of individuals involved in online gambling platforms that facilitated betting with $1.5 billion in cryptocurrencies including bitcoin. An operation involving 21 public security authorities has cracked down on organized football gambling during the ongoing football World Cup, resulting in the arrests of some 540 individuals […]
2018-7-13 21:05 | |
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In a first for China, an illegal World Cup gambling ring has been busted holding more than $1. 5 billion in live bets – all in cryptocurrencies. Six major suspects are in custody. Nestled in a southern Guangdong province, the syndicate is reported to have themselves been sitting on $1.
2018-7-13 11:49 | |
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Police in Guangdong, a city in China have allegedly arrested hundreds of individuals for their involvement in an illegal gambling ring that has seen the gambling of $1. 5 Billion in cryptocurrencies over the world cup period.
2018-7-12 15:30 | |
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Terra is partnering with a Mongolian taxi company to let residents pay for rides using a stablecoin.
IOHK, the blockchain and cryptocurrency development company behind Cardano (ADA), is adamant in their goal to boost adoption of… The post Cardano Taps On Entire Nation of Mongolia To Develop Blockchain Infrastructure appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto mining needs the perfect balance of energy costs and revenue to be a viable investment venture. In the case of energy, cheap rates are preferred. There is also the aspect of cooling the mining machines that is usually taken care of by air conditioning in traditional data centers.
Participants in Mongolia’s Bitcoin mining industry plan to significantly expand the scope of their operations, local media report January 11. Japan’s Ginco Doubles Down On Mongolia The East Asian country, known for its cheap electricity and being home to the world’s northernmost desert, will see one of its miners almost treble in size this year alone, despite the ongoing Bitcoin bear market.
CryptoNinjas DASH, the cryptocurrency focused on payments and e-commerce, has announced full integration, including its InstantSend feature, with IDAX (International Digital Asset Exchange), a bitcoin and crypto exchange based in Mongolia.