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Satoshi Nakamoto has been an enigma for well over a decade and there’s been a number of suspects and self-styled Bitcoin inventors. One particular suspect is the computer engineer Wei Dai, the creator of the b-money system and the Crypto++ cryptographic library.
2020-4-2 19:35 | |
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A 19-year old Brooklyn resident faces a nine-count indictment for an alleged $1+ million crypto heist targeting at least 75 victims
2019-12-19 12:28 | |
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Nic Carter, a noted crypto skeptic, talks through the big stories of the year and argues that bitcoin mattered more than ever.
2019-12-11 18:32 | |
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A site called "US Veteran Token" looks to be using goodwill toward military vets to scam investors. And one of our bios was stolen to promote it.
2019-7-21 13:00 | |
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By CCN Markets: Analysts at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Capital Markets predict that Facebook’s upcoming cryptocurrency, GlobalCoin, could be the company’s most significant achievement yet.
2019-6-15 18:09 | |
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By CCN: Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a suspect who allegedly operated a bitcoin mining investment scam, according to Dutch daily De Gelrderlander. The fraudulent scheme which was reportedly started in 2017 earned the man named Berry van Mourik at least €2 million ($2.
2019-5-22 14:11 | |
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Sensing a rise in crypto-related scams and fraudulent investment schemes, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have issued a joint warning to investors, encouraging them to take a more thorough approach to verifying potential investments in the space.
2019-4-26 18:43 | |
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Brazilian police arrested a man that was apparently running a crypto money laundering scheme in Brazil. The information was released by the local news site Gauchazh on April 23. As per the report, law enforcement officials shut down a Bitcoin (BTC) mining farm that operated in a clandestine drug laboratory in Porto Alegre. Suspect Arrested […]
2019-4-25 00:20 | |
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Although the crypto markets are currently caught in a bout of sideways trading, many analysts and investors are closely watching some newly formed technical levels for insight into where Bitcoin (BTC) is heading next.
2019-4-22 21:00 | |
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Top-20 cryptocurrency exchange Coinbene announces deposits and withdrawals are paused for maintenance, while users suspect a cover for a possible hack
2019-3-27 18:44 | |
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The current situation is not seeming great for the crypto market as Bitwise Asset Management, a crypto index fund provider has recently claimed that 95% of the volume of unregulated crypto exchanges appears to be either fake or “non-economic in nature”.
2019-3-23 21:44 | |
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95 percent of volume on unregulated exchanges appears to be fake or non-economic in nature, an analysis from Bitwise Asset Management argues
2019-3-23 19:10 | |
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At least 87 percent of cryptocurrency exchanges may have falsified their reported trade volumes, a new study claims. According to a review of the top 100 exchanges by analytics company The Tie, most of the trading volume on the world’s largest crypto trading platforms is suspect.
2019-3-20 17:30 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs has announced a new company-wide ‘flexible’ dress code to reflect the changing nature of its workplaces, generally. Its stated aim is ‘to create a welcoming environment for all’ — which has led some to suspect the change is to attract crypto-personnel.
2019-3-6 17:00 | |
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The Texas securities regulator has released a report showing that 60 individuals and entities were cited for selling unregistered securities related to crypto investments
2019-2-8 11:29 | |
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Two “prominent professional hacking groups” are responsible for the majority of publicly reported hacks of cryptocurrency exchanges and other cryptocurrency organizations, concludes a report published by blockchain data analytics firm Chainalysis this week.
2019-2-2 01:45 | |
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An investigation by Europol and other police agencies has led to the arrest of a British suspect allegedly behind a spate of crypto thefts.
2019-1-24 19:00 | |
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A high-profile cryptocurrency theft case and a series of lawsuits associated with it have brought SIM swap hacks to the limelight once again. Nicolas Truglia, the primary suspect of a $24 million-dollar cryptocurrency theft case where BitAngels founder Michael Terpin’s crypto holdings were robbed, was known to live in $6,000 per month rented apartment.
2019-1-21 21:19 | |
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A 21-year old American has been named as the main suspect in a $224 million lawsuit, accused of stealing ~$24 million in crypto
2019-1-17 18:52 | |
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Technology lawyer Addison Cameron-Huff launched his new, Toronto-based, all-crypto legal firm on January 3, 2019, Bitcoin’s 10th anniversary, as a statement of his commitment to working for and promoting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-based businesses.
2019-1-11 21:17 | |
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India: an associate of a group accused of conducting a $70+ million scam has been arrested
2019-1-8 22:49 | |
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According to a report by Yahoo Taiwan, published on December 26, 2018, a Taiwanese man has been arrested by the local police for allegedly stealing electricity worth over $3 million to mine cryptocurrencies.
2019-1-1 08:00 | |
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A Taiwanese man has been arrested for allegedly stealing electricity worth over $3 million to mine Bitcoin and Ethereum worth around $14.5 million
2018-12-28 20:09 | |
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Reported suspicious crypto transactions soared in the first 10 months of 2018, but fiat is still vastly more popular in money laundering.
2018-12-6 14:02 | |
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Even as days merge into one nightmare for the tumbling value of the Crypto sphere, there is one group that is still in love with it, scammers. With the annual mega sale event, Black Friday around the corner most have been gearing for the festivities of capitalism. Thu,s few would suspect something amiss when a […]
2018-11-24 22:11 | |
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A 21-year old U. S. citizen has been arrested after being accused of stealing $1 million in cryptocurrencies. Apparently, the suspect used a technic known ‘SIM-swapping. ’ The information was released by the New York Post on November 20.
2018-11-22 09:01 | |
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In an exclusive interview, CryptoSlate spoke with the Director of Enforcement at the Texas State Securities Board, Joseph Rotunda, who has presided over more than a hundred investigations into suspect crypto offerings since a 2017 state-wide sweep that rocked BitConnect with an emergency cease-and-desist order.
2018-11-7 02:05 | |
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Belgium’s Financial Services and Markets Authority has updated the list of websites it says are cryptocurrency trading platforms showing signs of fraud. Twenty-one websites have been added to the existing list, bringing the total to 99 blacklisted sites.
2018-10-27 08:15 | |
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Belgium’s Financial Services and Markets Authority has updated the list of websites it says are cryptocurrency trading platforms showing signs of fraud. Twenty-one websites have been added to the existing list, bringing the total to 99 blacklisted sites.
2018-10-27 08:15 | |
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Floyd Mayweather faces private ICO court action, Air Canada joins airlines seeking blockchain economies, HTC launches its first blockchain phone, Bitcoin murder suspect arrested in France and Russian church forced to pay for cryptomining.
2018-10-26 10:23 | |
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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 suspect, Asif Ashraf Malkani, had been escaping justice for several months after stealing investors’ money.
2018-10-11 23:43 | |
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Although the United States has been seen as a founding father of modern technologies, other nations like Singapore, Malta, Switzerland are leading the crypto and blockchain revolution. These may not be locations that many would initially suspect to be “innovation capitals”.
2018-10-10 15:00 | |
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Emergent Technology (EmTech) Uses Blockchain for Gold Tracking and G-Coin Crypto Token Emergent Technology (EmTech) Uses Blockchain for Gold Tracking and G-Coin Crypto Token Crypto Trading Fraud Suspect Alexander Vinnik Interrogated by French Detectives Crypto Trading Fraud Suspect Alexander Vinnik Interrogated by French Detectives BTC Developer Luke-jr Attempts to Call out BCH's Roger Ver, But […]
2018-10-3 01:53 | |
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The newest episode of What Bitcoin Did features a debate between two crypto advocates with a strong economic background, Caitlin Long and Dr. Saifedean “Saife” Ammous.
2018-9-28 21:24 | |
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The U. S. FBI and law enforcement in South Korea and Japan have arrested two people in connection to phishing scam that stole $800,000 worth of Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP) tokens in a joint operation reported last week.
2018-9-17 20:00 | |
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The Supreme Court of Greece has reached a decision in the case regarding the extradition of Russian cryptocurrency expert Alexander Vinnik, according to his lawyer. The suspect was arrested in Greece on July 25, 2017, and since then, the U.
2018-9-7 22:15 | |
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The Supreme Court in Greece has allowed the Bitcoin fraud suspect Alexander Vinnik to be sent to Russia. There are also rumours that Vinnik has beneficial information for US special counsel Robert Mueller as he looks into the alleged meddling in the Russian election.
2018-9-6 13:30 | |
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Update (September 7): Goldman Sach’s CFO Martin Chavez has since called reports of dropping the bitcoin trading desk “fake news. ” (The original Business Insider report quoted unnamed sources as the basis of the information.
2018-9-8 21:57 | |
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Getting through customs and past security can be a stressful situation for many of us, but have you considered how wearing Bitcoin clothing, or having Bitcoin merchandise on display might make you stand out as suspect to security forces? It’s wrong, but according to an article in Bitcoin.
2018-8-17 11:00 | |
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With a market full of millions of users, it is only in due time that a user will fall suspect to glitches, hacks or plain old negligence. According to a popular crypto trader, his own mother has fallen victim to the wrongdoings of HitBTC, one of the oldest exchanges in the world.
2018-7-26 13:59 | |
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Chinese mining company Bitmain has announced it is exploring new policies that will boost the company’s transparency and communication with the cryptocurrency community.
2018-7-26 19:33 | |
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Chinese police, recently, seized over 200 computers used to mine the digital currencies Bitcoin and Ethereum after a miner tried to defraud an electricity company over his power bills. The Xinhua News reported that the man stole 150,000kW hours of electricity in just one month.
2018-6-26 22:32 | |
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Chinese police have arrested a suspect on charges of alleged power theft, seizing 200 bitcoin and ethereum mining computers in the process.
2018-6-25 03:00 | |
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UK may return £640M to fraud victims but keep $6. 4B gains from seized Bitcoin, sparking debate. Largest crypto seizure ever: 61,000 BTC worth $7. 24B confiscated in UK fraud case. Officials warn legal battles could delay victim payouts if UK keeps Bitcoin windfall.
UK seizes 61,000 Bitcoin worth $7B in one of the world’s largest crypto fraud cases. Zhang and Ling plead guilty to laundering funds tied to a $5. 6B Chinese investment scam. Civil battle looms over seized Bitcoin as victims and UK government vie for recovery.
A US federal court ordered William Koo Ichioka to pay $31 million in restitution and $5 million in monetary penalty The New York resident was charged and ordered to pay a total of $36 million for defrauding victims in a forex and crypto scheme A New York man will pay $36 million for defrauding victims […] The post New York man to pay $36 million for forex and crypto fraud appeared first on CoinJournal.
B. Riley, the lender of last resort that loaned Bitcoin mining company Core Scientific $70 million, is the subject of a new probe. More details here. The post Could Bitcoin Mining Companies Face Threats From the Failure of This Crypto Bank? appeared first on BeInCrypto.
The Philippine SEC is now collaborating with the U.S. SEC and the Asian Development Bank to better combat crypto-related crime.
The SEC has charged Hawaiian resident Jeremy Koski with securities fraud for allegedly manipulating equity investment funds on the Nasdaq and making false promises about cryptocurrency conversion.
Federal officials announced on Wednesday that a Russian national who operated a crypto exchange that became a harbor for the proceeds of illegal activities has been arrested. U.S. authorities have collared 40-year-old China-resident Anatoly Legkodymov on claims that his Hong Kong-registered crypto trading platform, Bitzlato, processed hundreds of millions of dollars in dirty money. Tuesday night, agents of the […]