2022-7-25 17:08 |
Remember man who threw away 7,500 Bitcoins? Now, he has new plan to recover his fortune
Similar to Notcoin - TapSwap on Solana Airdrops In 2024
|
The British man who accidentally threw away a computer with 7,500 bitcoins on its hard drive has come up with a new plan to retrieve his lost coins from the city landfill. “We estimate there are between 300,000 – 400,000 tons of waste to look through,” he said. Man on Mission to Retrieve 7,500 Lost […]
2021-7-10 16:30 | |
|
|
The Bitcoin craze is gradually finding its way into couples and the love life they share. The decision whether to hold Bitcoin (BTC) or cash out may have cost a man his marriage. A Reddit user said his wife left him because he had opted to add more Bitcoins to his wallet and go long […] The post Wife leaves husband for refusing to sell Bitcoin (BTC) when price was high appeared first on Invezz.
2021-3-26 15:30 | |
|
|
A German man has shared his story about how he fell for the Elon Musk bitcoin giveaway scam. He lost 10 bitcoins to the scam, worth almost $600K at the current price. “I’d just thrown away the game changer for my family, my early retirement fund, and all the upcoming holidays with my kids,” he […]
2021-3-21 22:30 | |
|
|
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, with a net worth of over $180 billion at report time, may have silently stacked a fair share of Bitcoins for himself; but not silent enough to distract a large number of the public from the clues and hints that could make these observations true. Bitcoin whales […]
2021-1-30 20:32 | |
|
|
A man has accidentally thrown away a hard drive containing 7,500 bitcoins. He is now offering his city 25% of the value of the bitcoins stored in the hard drive for permission to search the city’s landfill site.
2021-1-16 19:35 | |
|
|
Prosecutors from the Netherlands have seized 2,532 bitcoins worth $33 million after a couple was convicted of money laundering by the Rotterdam District Court. The man and his wife were sentenced to two years for illegal money transmission and the court claims the couple’s bitcoin stash was used on the deep web.
2020-10-31 03:30 | |
|
|
The Rotterdam District Court in the Netherlands has seized 2,532 bitcoins (~$29 million) from a couple convicted of money laundering on dark web platforms. According to a court statement, the man and his wife from the city of Hilversum, located in North Holland, were also sentenced to two years and two and a half years […] The post $29 Million in Bitcoin Seized From Dutch Dark Web Money Launderers appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2020-10-27 23:29 | |
|
|
A man has taken to Twitter to air his story after he apparently fell victim to a phishing attack. In a video that has since attracted the attention of many crypto enthusiasts, one Eric Savics says he lost 12 Bitcoins in the attack that has now threatened his dream of buying his own apartment. Appeal […]
2020-6-14 18:28 | |
|
|
Coinbase U.K. settled a lawsuit with a man who lost 80 Bitcoins in an email phishing attack
2019-9-12 03:40 | |
|
|
Craig Wright, the man who claims to be the original creator of Bitcoin, is using an unfavorable court ruling to play mind games with bitcoin investors. The Australian computer scientist has to pay $5 billion in bitcoins to Ira Kleiman who earlier accused Wright of stealing the cryptocurrencies from his deceased brother, Dave Kleiman.
2019-8-28 16:00 | |
|
|
A photograph showing two men walking next to a Deutsche Bank sign-carrying tote bags with “Bitcoins” written on them went viral on social media, leading many to believe they were one of the thousands that were laid off in the bank’s recent staff cuts.
2019-7-10 00:44 | |
|
|
Since the very start, people have lost bitcoins due to human error. Mislaid wallets, forgotten passwords, broken hard drives, hacks, and scams have conspired to remove over 20% of all BTC from circulation by some estimates.
2019-4-30 01:10 | |
|
|
On 9 April 2019, the United States Attorney’s District of Connecticut office released an official statement about a man imprisoned for stealing Bitcoins in “dark web phishing scheme. ” The man in question was identified to be Micheal Richo, from New Haven and formerly Wallingford.
2019-4-11 02:30 | |
|
|
A 33-year-old Danish man was sentenced to four years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to charges of laundering Bitcoin. According to the verdict, the perpetrator bought Bitcoins from funds he received from identifiable criminal sources and sent it to unidentified offshore accounts.
2019-4-10 06:30 | |
|
|
How a dead man collected 103 bitcoins.
2019-2-13 21:45 | |
|
|
Bitcoin was created by Satoshi Nakamoto, (almost certainly) a pseudonym, that no one has been able to conclusively connect to an actual person or group of people to this day.
2019-1-3 06:42 | |
|
|
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 | |
|
|
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 | |
|
|
Famous rapper Soulja Boy says he is going digital. “This crypto currency man, it’s crazy,” he says in his new album “Young Draco” which has an entire song dedicated to bitcoin.
2018-10-7 15:09 | |
|
|
Adding to the litany of cryptocurrency scams being brought to public attention recently, a man has just reported to Dutch authorities that he was given €180,000 in counterfeit cash in exchange for 26 Bitcoins ($154,693).
2018-9-1 18:33 | |
|
|
So it’s Burning Man time again, and this year one of the ‘art’ installations featured some prominent bitcoin logos. Well, you weren’t expecting physical bitcoins, were you? They’re just to impress no-coiners! Burning Question For anyone who doesn’t know, Burning Man is a yearly event in the desert and a global cultural movement.
2018-9-1 04:00 | |
|
|
In November 2016, a Dutch cryptotrader tried to buy his first 10 bitcoin, first using funds from his ING bank and later from ABN Amro. Both banks denied the transactions.
2018-8-18 23:22 | |
|
|
According to the Bangkok Post, a Finnish Bitcoin millionaire, Aarni Otava Saarimaa, was scammed by a group of Thai people in 2017. Thailand’s Crime Suppression Division (CSD) noted that the Finnish man lost about 5,600 Bitcoins to the Thai gang through a fraudulent investment scheme.
2018-8-15 14:07 | |
|
|
A British county police force has become the first in the country to seize and exchange bitcoins discovered during a criminal investigation. According to a report from the Financial Times yesterday, the Surrey police force obtained 295 bitcoins last October after arresting a Latvian man called Seregjs Teresko, who has since been convicted for money laundering and
2018-7-20 16:50 | |
|
|
“Virtual currencies are processed cryptographically, a miner is the machine that supports this encryption process. If you mine Bitcoin, you can process 12. 5 bitcoins in 10 minutes, which would be the equivalent of 10 million yen, (US$ 90,000).
2018-7-7 16:01 | |
|
|