2022-10-20 21:17 |
Federal prosecutors alleged that five Russian nationals laundered "millions of dollars" worth of unnamed cryptocurrency as part of a scheme to smuggle military technology and oil.
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Unknown crypto venture firm MetaFormLabs has initiated a campaign to pump Voyager Token (VGX) as part of a proposed Voyager rescue package.
2022-7-14 07:27 | |
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Elon Musk has been a fierce Dogecoin (DOGE) proponent for several years. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has publicly stated his support for the cryptocurrency allegedly because of its features and capacity to be “fun”.
2022-6-17 01:00 | |
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Antony Scaramucci has tweeted that Bitcoin would become part of SkyBridge's 401(k) program
2022-4-26 14:31 | |
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Cardano developer Input Output Global (IOG) recently partnered with iceaddis to support its ecosystem. The partners launched Ariob as part of an incubator scheme that will improve the growth of those projects supported by Project Catalyst.
2022-4-7 01:00 | |
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GYM Network is about to launch a groundbreaking product in the DeFi world: an affiliate system powered by the BNB Chain smart contract, as well as a pool sharing scheme. As part of its ambition to change the field of DeFi, GYM Network announced today that an affiliate system for its first product, GYMNET Vault, […]
2022-2-24 03:12 | |
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The Australian financial watchdog has revealed the details of how it took down ASX traders suspected of taking part in a coordinated Telegram pump-and-dump scheme.
2021-12-30 04:42 | |
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A Florida resident confessed to participating in a conspiracy to defraud a bank as part of the $4 billion OneCoin Ponzi scheme. The post Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Role in OneCoin Ponzi Scheme appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-10-21 15:52 | |
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The creator of AriseCoin was handed a five-year sentence and hit with $4 million in fines for his part in the scheme. The post CEO of AriseCoin Given Five Years in Prison for Crypto Scheme appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-8-29 15:15 | |
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The Brazilian Police Force confiscated 591 bitcoin amounting to 150 million Brazilian real (about $28.6 million) in a crackdown on a suspected fraudulent scheme. According to a CNN Brazil report, federal police as part of “Operation Kryptos” – an ongoing investigation of an alleged financial pyramid scheme arrested 5 persons in connection with the crime […]
2021-8-28 17:38 | |
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38-year old Larry Dean Harmon has also agreed to forfeit 4,400 BTC as part… The post Darknet BTC Mixer Operator Pleads Guilty in $300M laundering scheme appeared first on Coin Journal.
2021-8-19 13:54 | |
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The lynchpin of Inksnation, one of Nigeria’s biggest crypto Ponzi Schemes, Omotade-Sparks Amos Sewanu, has been captured. According to Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Sewanu, who was on the run, was nabbed in Sokoto, a city located in the northwest part of the country.
2021-5-29 16:30 | |
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With government agencies confiscating massive amounts of crypto from criminal enterprises, Chainalysis has developed a program to aid in the admin of these seized digital assets. The news marks a major development in crypto-asset realization, especially against the backdrop of restitution in cases where forfeited cryptocurrencies are part of a fraudulent scheme.
2020-11-12 17:28 | |
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Max Keiser claims that Peter Schiff gets paid for taking part in debates where he slams Bitcoin, calling it a "pyramid scheme"
2020-9-14 17:05 | |
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Official media has confirmed that the digital yuan is being tested as part of a transport subsidies scheme for local workers
2020-4-16 12:07 | |
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Boeing has announced a voluntary layoff scheme for its employees, but it's all part of an attempt to lobby for its own government bailout. The post Boeing Bribes U.S. Government For Bailout with Voluntary Layoff Plan appeared first on CCN.com
2020-4-2 19:39 | |
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Former bank employees have received bonuses worth millions of euros in an illegal trading scheme that also involved a tax lawyer, prosecutors in Frankfurt revealed this week. The case is part of multiple investigations carried out across Germany, the hardest hit country in a notorious tax fraud scandal known as the Cum-ex Files.
2020-1-22 19:40 | |
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2020 at Ripple begins with a further release of XRP tokens worth $192 million as part of a planned incentive scheme
2020-1-2 17:31 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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A New York base court this week ordered defendants to pay a fine amounting to $4. 25 million for being part of an investment fraud scheme. The fraud in question involved the use of the crypto ATM coin.
2019-11-5 20:45 | |
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As part of its quarterly token burning scheme, Huobi Global has announced that it’s burned 11. 3 million Huobi Tokens (HT) worth approximately $40m. The Singaporean exchange reports a strong quarter of trading, with continued growth across its spot and derivatives market.
2019-10-23 22:04 | |
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On 7 October, Roche Freedman, the New York-based high-stakes legal firm, dragged Tether and Bitfinex to court, alleging them to be participants in market manipulation. A class-action lawsuit was filed by Roche Freedman LLP against Tether and Bitfinex for manipulating cryptocurrency markets.
2019-10-7 16:18 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake, Karl Floersch, Hsiao-wei Wang, Barry Whitehat, Dankrad Feist, Kobi Gurkan and Zac Williamson for review Very recently, Ariel Gabizon, Zac Williamson and Oana Ciobotaru announced a new general-purpose zero-knowledge proof scheme called PLONK, standing for the unwieldy quasi-backronym “Permutations over Lagrange-bases for Oecumenical Noninteractive arguments of Knowledge”.
2019-9-24 04:03 | |
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The ethereum network is facing unprecedented demand, but it is now used for much more than “merely” transferring ETH tokens. A large part of that demand is due to the activity of smart contracts.
2019-9-16 17:00 | |
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The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has agreed to settle the charges it filed in 2018 against a pyramid scheme that involved 4 individuals. As part of the settlement, the promoters of recruitment-based cryptocurrency schemes are permanently banned from operating or participating in any multi-level marketing program. Additionally, they are supposed to pay a […]
2019-8-25 18:05 | |
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Venezuela appears to be leveraging cryptocurrencies as part of a larger effort to bypass US sanctions. According to an investigation by Spanish newspaper ABC, President Nicolas Maduro and his administration are using a digital wallet app called Jetman Pay to convert tax revenue from one of the country’s main airports into Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
2019-7-26 14:02 | |
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The allure of fast profits from cryptocurrency appears to have been too great for one bank manager in India. The manager of a Standard Chartered branch, a private bank in India, has been arrested for running a cryptocurrency scam in which he promised unrealistic returns on a digital coin, Business Standard reports.
2019-7-3 12:52 | |
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Let’s investigate Mark Zuckerberg and his plot for world domination and India’s latest Anti-crypto bill. First, we are going to talk about my boy Marky Mark and his latest new scheme of trying to get into the crypto orgy fest.
2019-6-17 18:57 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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By CCN: The man, the meme, the legend – Alex Jones has become an ingrained part of the Bitcoin subculture in recent years, thanks to several revelations made on his flagship show Infowars.
2019-6-9 17:12 | |
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The accusation that bitcoin is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme is perhaps the oldest, longest-standing criticism of the digital bearer asset. The basic idea is that there is nothing of value here and the entire purpose of bitcoin’s existence is to enrich Satoshi Nakamoto and the speculators who bought in for a few pennies or dollars in the early days by tricking others into buying in at a higher price.
2019-6-4 19:03 | |
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Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize the African continent. Through Bitcoin, millions of unbanked Africans will have access to financial services. These and many more such statements exist across the internet.
2019-6-1 21:48 | |
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has published an update on how it intends to regulate crypto-related businesses and initial coin offerings (ICOs).
2019-6-1 19:04 | |
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By CCN: The Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) has taken down a cryptocurrency-mixing service, BestMixer. io, in a crackdown involving Europol and Luxembourg authorities. The anti-fraud agency said Wednesday that they had begun an investigation against BestMixer last summer.
2019-5-23 14:42 | |
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By CCN: The U. S. SEC has secured a court order to stop an alleged diamond-backed Ponzi scheme estimated to be worth around $30 million. The securities regulator outlined how more than 300 investors were fleeced into handing over funds to Florida-based Argyle Coin LLC.
2019-5-22 22:30 | |
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On Wednesday, May 15, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network will be upgraded to incorporate the highly anticipated Schnorr signature algorithm, a digital signature scheme widely known for its simplicity.
2019-5-12 18:55 | |
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Bitfinex and the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) legal sparring in relation to $850 million in missing funds escalated with another round of court filings this past weekend.
2019-5-7 01:42 | |
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Australia’s tax agency will seek to contact cryptocurrency traders personally about tax issues as part of a new data collection scheme
2019-4-30 14:54 | |
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Australia is clamping down on the taxation of cryptocurrencies. The country’s tax office is collecting bulk records from Australian cryptocurrency service providers as part of a data matching scheme to make sure traders are paying the correct amount of tax.
2019-4-30 13:34 | |
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A 13-count indictment was filed in the U.S. charging two men with the theft of 10.88 bitcoin (worth ~$59,000) as part of an allegedly fraudulent scheme involving over 50 bitcoin
2019-4-25 13:07 | |
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Bitcoin donations have already begun arriving as part of an effort to raise funds for rebuilding the devastated Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Donate To Notre Dame With Bitcoin As countries and businesses worldwide publicly pledge hundreds of millions of dollars in aid after the world-famous church caught fire April 15, the Bitcoin community is galvanizing its members to contribute.
2019-4-16 17:00 | |
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Within the sphere of traditional finance, at least, crypto has a custody problem. The problem? Crypto is complicated, security is tricky and — if we’re being frank — the suits don’t know a bit from a byte (or a blockchain from a cloud server).
2019-4-12 22:03 | |
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Singapore has joined a growing list of countries cracking down on the promoters of the multi-billion dollar OneCoin pyramid scheme. The Business Times reports that investigations conducted by the Singapore Police Force (SPF) hav resulted in two men being charged for promoting OneCoin cryptocurrency.
2019-4-10 12:28 | |
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Two men were charged in Singapore today for promoting a cryptocurrency-based multi-level marketing scheme. Local police believe this is the first case of its kind in the country. The perpetrators in question had been promoting the notorious multi-billion dollar pyramid scheme OneCoin, Channel News Asia reports.
2019-4-10 11:52 | |
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South Korean police have caught the masterminds of a Bitcoin-fuelled Ponzi scheme responsible for generating almost $19 million in revenue. The scam, called “M-Coin,” is said to have targeted those with poor understanding of the technology – mostly elderly people, retirees, and housewives – with promises of free cryptocurrency and recruitment bonuses for signing up others, reports Korea Joon Gang Daily.
2019-4-8 12:29 | |
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Amit Bhardwaj, a man accused of running a $300-million Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, has reportedly been granted bail on medical grounds, citing a deteriorating kidney condition. The former entrepreneur, who was arrested in Bangkok last year, was reportedly admitted into Apollo Hospital in India, maintaning he needed regular dialysis treatment to treat his condition.
2019-4-4 13:46 | |
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Ledger, a French cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer, has faced criticism for failing to conduct proper testing before launching a firmware update to their Nano S wallet. While the company said that the update, which significantly decreased the device’s storage, was the result of a mistake, some users speculated it was part of a scheme to […] The post Ledger Faces Backlash for Failing to Properly Test Nano S Software Update appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2019-3-1 09:06 | |
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According to a recent statement made by Ohio’s state treasurer, so far, only two businesses have filed their taxes in crypto using the state’s crypto tax payment scheme.
2019-2-22 01:23 | |
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An international cryptocurrency fraud cartel has been busted by a joint investigation between US and foreign authorities. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last week that it has charged 20 people, including 16 foreigners for being part of an international organized crime syndicate that saw American citizens defrauded for millions of dollars.
2019-2-11 17:00 | |
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Darknet markets are going as strong as ever, if Chainalysis data is to be believed. In its latest Crypto Crime Report, published earlier this week, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis reports that darknet market activity has nearly doubled throughout 2018.
2019-2-1 00:35 | |
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The Labour government said the bill will give owners of bitcoin and other digital assets greater legal protection.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed Tulip Siddiq as the City Minister, a role that oversees financial services including crypto.
Taiwan's crypto advocacy body, the Taiwan Virtual Asset Service Provider Association, has been formally established and the founding meeting held with 24 cryptocurrency-related entities.
The exchange could return as a FIU-registered firm after paying the fine, the report added.
This is the third test for the Province's new tool to combat money laundering.
The Federal Reserve continues to pilot a central bank digital currency, but will not issue one without executive branch and Congressional support, the report said.
India's most controversial crypto tax, the 1% TDS levy deducted at source, should be lowered to 0.01%, according to the findings of a new study.