2020-9-11 12:15 |
The man was sentenced to three years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane for his part in the robbery and beating of a bitcoin buyer. origin »
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2020-9-11 12:15 |
The man was sentenced to three years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane for his part in the robbery and beating of a bitcoin buyer. origin »
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Bitcoin’s history is filled with stories of people who put small, disposable amounts of money into the crypto and ended up making a fortune. This has been no different from the case of one Norwegian man, whose throwaway $22 Bitcoin investment has turned into a life-changing sum.
2023-10-14 21:30 | |
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16 Bitcoin Gone A man is suing the parents of the young men he claims stole roughly $1 million worth of Bitcoin from him. Andrew Schober, a Colorado man, claims he had 16. 4 Bitcoin stolen from him in 2018, according to KrebsonSecurity.
2021-9-8 21:23 | |
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Bitcoin appeared to hitch a ride on Elon Musk’s rocket on Friday. The cryptoasset soared by 20% to hit $38K as the world’s richest man added #bitcoin to his Twitter Bio, and a record number of options contracts expired.
2021-2-2 01:27 | |
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One of the crypto industry’s earliest supporters and the man who predicted Bitcoin would reach $1 million by the end of this year, was just arrested in Spain for tax evasion. That man is John McAfee, who was hit with a number of charges from the US government.
2020-10-6 20:00 | |
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Bitcoin has flatlined in the mid-$11,000s over the past few days. Some say that this formation is bullish as BTC remains above the $10,500 support. A historically accurate analyst thinks that Bitcoin may technically be in no man’s land.
2020-8-28 13:00 | |
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A Bitcoin trader from South Africa has reportedly been drugged, kidnapped, and tortured over his Bitcoin holdings. The assault happened after the man followed an invite to an anonymous presentation, highlighting the threats lurking on the internet.
2018-12-4 19:00 | |
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It seems cryptocurrency scammers aren’t afraid of using more old school tactics in order to extort Bitcoin from their victims. A man from South Africa was purportedly attacked for his Bitcoin by someone he met on Facebook, according to local news outlet, the Soweto Urban.
2018-12-4 18:57 | |
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Bitcoin SV To Process Over 1 TB Blocks In The Next 2 Years Dr. Craig Wright has been a busy man prepping up Bitcoin S. In his recent marketing push for the crypto, he said published his 2 years plan.
2018-12-3 21:39 | |
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Satoshi Nakamoto is a name known throughout the cryptocurrency industry, but the man is much more elusive. Satoshi was used as a pseudonym for the creator of Bitcoin, who’s true identity is still unknown.
2018-12-3 22:19 | |
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When Bitcoin came into being about a decade ago, very few people really knew about it. Also, many of those who heard about it didn’t understand it or its potential. Ten years later, Bitcoin is now the topmost valued digital asset.
2018-11-30 22:10 | |
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For the first time, the U. S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has traced illicit bitcoin activity to the public addresses of two sanctioned individuals.
2018-11-29 21:41 | |
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Markets have been undergoing a recovery over the past two days. The recovery was slow yesterday but picked up today with man major cryptocurrencies recording double-digit gains over the past 24 hours.
2018-11-28 19:39 | |
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Bitcoinist spoke with Adam Todd, CEO of Digitex Futures, a trading platform that aims to become a commission-free, non-custodial ‘BitMEX’ for cryptocurrencies built on Ethereum. Bitcoinist: What is Digitex Futures? What are you doing that’s different/new? Can you give us your elevator pitch? Adam Todd: Digitex Futures is a commission-free, non-custodial futures exchange.
2018-11-28 07:00 | |
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As volatility returns to cryptocurrency markets, with serious losses over the past week or so, digital asset exchanges and other fintech platforms have again turned their attention to crypto derivatives.
2018-11-22 19:15 | |
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Nicholas Truglia, a 21-year old con man, residing in Manhattan, New York, was arrested by the local police at his apartment for hacking into others mobile phones to steal cryptocurrencies, reports New York Times on November 20, 2018.
2018-11-22 10:00 | |
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Remember that kid that got tortured by his friends in an attempt to steal his Bitcoin about a month ago? Well, turns out he may have actually made his cryptocurrency fortune by stealing it from a Silicon Valley exec, after pulling an elaborate SIM-swapping scheme.
2018-11-21 14:28 | |
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A fraud prosecution case in the United States (U. S. ), involving initial coin offerings (ICO) recently ended in a guilty plea. According to a Bloomberg article published on November 15, 2018, the guilty man, Maksin Zaslavskiy, admitted to the U.
2018-11-19 14:00 | |
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WorldMarkets.io Opens The World Of Stocks With Bitcoin (BTC) Investment has a long history of being inaccessible to the common man. In fact even today a majority of the older demographic those who fall into the median income bracket, prefer to keep away from direct investments in stocks. Thus, investing via crypto is already looked […]
2018-11-19 01:21 | |
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Tom Lee Cuts $10,000 Off EOY Bitcoin Price Forecast Per an article from CNBC, Tom Lee, Bitcoin’s inside man at Fundstrat Global Advisors, recently lowered his Bitcoin (BTC) price prediction by $10,000, claiming that this industry’s foremost asset will only hit $15,000 by year’s end, not $25,000 as he has stated incessantly on previous occasions.
2018-11-17 08:46 | |
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Tom Lee Cuts $10,000 Off EOY Bitcoin Price Forecast Per an article from CNBC, Tom Lee, Bitcoin’s inside man at Fundstrat Global Advisors, recently lowered his Bitcoin (BTC) price prediction by $10,000, claiming that this industry’s foremost asset will only hit $15,000 by year’s end, not $25,000 as he has stated incessantly on previous occasions.
2018-11-17 08:46 | |
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Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different coins: “Bitcoin Cash ABC” (BCH ABC) and “Bitcoin Cash SV” (BCH SV).
2018-11-17 02:13 | |
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When Nchain’s Australian developer Craig Wright, who is also the top man behind the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) calls out an individual, the row is certain to draw a battle line between himself and the involved individual, as was the case with Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin, Bitmain’s Jihan Wu and his highly pronounced opponent Roger Ver.
2018-11-17 22:24 | |
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The financial regulator of the Isle of Man recently introduced changes to its policy governing the registration of companies in the cryptocurrency industry. The British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea is also tightening rules applicable to projects that conduct initial coin offerings (ICOs).
2018-11-15 16:10 | |
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CoinSpeaker Hash War is On: Craig Wright Threatens to Crash Bitcoin Price Down to $1000 Craig Wright, the man claims to be the real Satoshi Nakamoto and pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, has threatened to crash the price of ‘his’ headline cryptocurrency if miners support the Bitcoin Cash ABC project in the upcoming fork.
2018-11-15 13:43 | |
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The Isle of Man’s financial watchdog the Isle of Man Financial Services Authority (IOMFSA) has revised its registration policy with regard to businesses operating in the cryptocurrency industry, reports Mondaq, November 13, 2018.
2018-11-15 02:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency traders and investors may be hurting, but that hasn’t stopped regulators from bringing crypto-related criminals to justice. Just recently, a leading financial regulator has brought an Arizona-based man to justice for stealing upwards of $1 million in Bitcoin (BTC) and Litecoin (LTC).
2018-11-14 05:45 | |
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On November 12, 2018, The infamous Thai siblings accused of duping a Finnish man for bitcoin worth $24 million have pleaded not guilty in court over money laundering charges. The siblings were first arrested in August this year for engineering a cryptocurrency scam.
2018-11-14 04:00 | |
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A Swedish man suspected in a case involving a bomb being mailed to a Bitcoin firm has been convicted of attempted murder and is facing up to seven years in prison. Swedish Bitcoin Bomber Convicted of Attempted Murder According to the Associated Press, Michael Salonen, age 43, has been sentences to up to seven years.
2018-11-10 20:00 | |
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A Swedish man has been convicted of attempted murder after sending numerous threatening letters to local politicians – and mailing a bomb-like device to a Bitcoin company in London. The Stockholm District Court has sentenced 43-year Michael Salonen to seven years in prison, AP reports.
2018-11-9 15:36 | |
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An article headline in MIT Technology Review heralds Vitalik Buterin saying Ethereum can’t succeed unless he takes a step back. Tone Vays almost wet his pants with glee at Vitalik’s imminent departure, before being put straight by the man himself.
2018-11-2 22:15 | |
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BitMEX CEO, Arthur Hayes believes bears have the stamina to keep control of the crypto market for at least 18 months longer. Hayes Forecasts Prolonged Thunderstorms Arthur Hayes, the captain at the helm of the world’s largest cryptocurrency derivatives exchange BitMEX believes bears could maintain control of the cryptocurrency market for at least another 18 months.
2018-11-1 13:00 | |
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Bitcoin Fanatic To Be Convicted For Operating A”Unlicensed Money Transmitting Business“ Per a “News Release Summary” from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), during a federal-level court hearing, a U.
2018-10-31 08:01 | |
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An American man has fessed up in front of federal court judges, pleading guilty for operating an “unlicensed money transmitting business. ” A Department of Justics (DoJ) published a press release yesterday that details how Jacob Burrell Campos has been selling “hundres of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin to over 1,000 customers” across the United States.
2018-10-30 16:22 | |
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Modern man and woman are fundamentally tied to the standards, barriers, and incentives set out by most economic models. Paying a mortgage, student debt, and income taxes all contribute to the humanness of contemporary times.
2018-10-30 21:00 | |
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Iceland Mining Farm Presents Energy Use Problem The crypto space has traditionally been an opportunistic advancement for the common man. With enough interest and some technological knowledge, nearly anyone can grab onto the industry and try to make their fortune.
2018-10-24 00:02 | |
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Smart contract insurance is still a long way off, but one Bitcoin hodler is protecting his gains the old-fashioned way. An Ohio man is attempting to claim $16,000 of stolen Bitcoin under his Homeowner’s Policy, justifying the claim under the IRS’ definition of virtual currency as “property.
2018-10-23 02:22 | |
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Selling cryptocurrencies to strangers might not be the best idea ever. A 24-year old man was killed after selling large amounts of Bitcoin for cash. The situation has been reported by local media a few days ago.
2018-10-20 18:43 | |
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The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations Section 5: Saving the World Through Anarchism Chapter 11, Part 3 Crypto Anarchism and Civil Society. The Technology is the Revolution. by Wendy McElroy Not only is democracy mystical nonsense, it is also immoral.
2018-10-20 18:00 | |
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A meeting place that could have been about a common peer-to-peer Bitcoin trade turned into a scene of a brutal killing. A 24-year old Norwegian man was reportedly stabbed to death in his Majorstuen apartment shortly after completing a cash-to-Bitcoin trade with his alleged killer.
2018-10-19 12:08 | |
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An unfortunate man in Norway was murdered over what appears to be a Bitcoin trade gone wrong. P2P Gone Wrong? What appears to be a trade gone wrong has resulted in the tragic loss of a life in Oslo, Norway.
2018-10-18 10:00 | |
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US Marshals Service set to auction off $4.2 million in bitcoin, crypto may not be as decentralized as you think, and a Norwegian man was murdered in a peer-to-peer bitcoin trade.
2018-10-19 03:35 | |
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The $34 million Bitcoin scam has its prime suspect named Prinya Jaravijit who was arrested in Thailand after returning to the country. Jaravijit is allegedly part of a scam which saw a man from Finland, Aarini Otava Saarimaa scammed out of over 5,500 Bitcoins, this would be worth around $34 million in today’s market.
2018-10-17 12:00 | |
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The man who created Atari has moved on to blockchain-based gaming. Neil Bushnell’s X2 Games has been acquired by Canadian-based Global Blockchain (BLOC), a crypto investment firm, in hopes that Bushnell’s expertise will lead to another gaming industry revolution — this time with the help of blockchain technology.
2018-10-16 00:06 | |
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A Chinese man has been handed a three and a half year sentence for illegally tapping power from a train station in China for crypto mining purposes. According to a… The post Bitcoin Mining: Chinese Man Gets 3.
2018-10-15 19:09 | |
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Bitcoin (BTC) had a steep decline yesterday. During the last hour of trading, it plunged further into the red. This marks the completion of the final wave of capitulation. Bitcoin (BTC) has now begun the day in green.
2018-10-12 16:00 | |
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Noted Bitcoin critic Nouriel Roubini will deliver a speech on cryptocurrency and blockchain to the U. S. Senate today, and it is unlikely that the man known as “Dr. Doom” will mince his words.
2018-10-11 15:00 | |
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The New Delhi Police Branch has arrested Asif Ashraf Malkani – a thirty-five-year-old man accused of operating Kassh Coin – a multi-million dollar scam that duped Bollywood celebrities, among scores of Indian investors.
2018-10-10 06:35 | |
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Although the Chinese regulatory bodies have maintained their distance from cryptocurrencies, it has not deterred the people in the country from partaking in the promising crypto mining industry – as a Chinese man was recently sentenced to 3.
2018-10-9 15:00 | |
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Man Steals $15,000 Of Electricity For Bitcoin (BTC) Mining Despite the stringent rules placed on China’s crypto scene, the Bitcoin and altcoin mining business remains as hot as ever. So hot, in fact, that a Chinese man, named Xu Xinghu, thought it would be a good idea to steal electricity from the nation’s train network […] The post Chinese Bitcoin (BTC) Miner Nabs Electricity, Authorities Crack Down appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-10-8 23:00 | |
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