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A quick visual overview of New York's allegations against crypto companies Bitfinex and Tether.
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A quick visual overview of New York's allegations against crypto companies Bitfinex and Tether.
2019-4-29 14:52 | |
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On Thursday, the cryptocurrency market took a major hit, dropping more than $10 billion in market cap following allegations surrounding Tether (USDT). According to a press release officially published on the New York Attorney General website, iFinex Inc which is the company behind Bitfinex crypto exchange and Tether Limited, covered up a loss of $850 […] The post Crypto Market Loses a Whopping $10 Billion in Wake of Tether/Bitfinex Scandal appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2019-4-27 09:00 | |
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An investigation by the New York Attorney General’s office alleges that $850 million in losses at Bitfinex were covered up by Tether, their affiliate. The allegations are yet another sting for the troubled pair, both owned by iFinex Inc.
2019-4-27 22:19 | |
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Crypto News – 26 April – Bitfinex responds to New York AG’s allegations, Bitrue collaborates with Wietse Wind and more Do follow us for our daily video#Bitfinex #USDT #Bitrue #XRP #CraigWright #Poloniex #cryptonews pic.
2019-4-27 19:00 | |
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According to data from CoinMarketCap, the allegations brought against Bitfinex by the New York attorney general’s office seem to have affected Tether's backing by the US dollar and caused massive sell-offs of ETH and XRP.
2019-4-27 17:20 | |
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The crypto markets endured a loss of as much as $10 billion around 21:00 UTC on Thursday, following the NYAG's allegations on Bitfinex and Tether.
2019-4-26 07:40 | |
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Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks and early Bitcoin supporter, was arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and faces extradition to the U. S. on conspiracy charges.
2019-4-12 19:27 | |
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Crypto News – 06 April – Monero surges by 5%, Tron DApp count reaches 246, and more Don’t forget to follow us for our daily video #bitcoin #monero #TRON #cryptocurrency #CryptocurrencyNews @fluffypony @AttentionToken @Tronfoundation #CryptoNews pic.
2019-4-6 19:00 | |
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The global crypto exchange HitBTC has recently decided to appeal to cryptography in order to defend itself against the team behind Bitcoin Private (BTCP) in a court case. It all started when the major exchange, which is described by CoinMarketCap as the 15th largest of the world by trade volume, was accused of fraud by […]
2019-3-30 00:58 | |
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A recent Bitwise report threw the lid open on crypto’s chronic issue of wash trading. Now a senior OKEx executive has admitted to Crypto Briefing that the exchange has a problem with artificially inflated volumes.
2019-3-28 17:17 | |
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Coinspeaker CoinMarketCap Admits Fake Crypto Volume Allegations, Plans for a New Set of ToolsCrypto price aggregator CoinMarketCap says it plans to make a number of changes to address concerns that the site reports fake volume for Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and more than 2,000 altcoins.
2019-3-26 15:40 | |
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Initial Money Offerings (ICOs) have developed a negative reputation and many investors seem to find themselves dissatisfied with platforms skirting securities laws. Notable actions against ICOs include Ripple Labs and Bitconnect.
2019-3-23 13:32 | |
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A report by the Blockchain Transparency Institute (BTI) claims that many exchanges are using bots to fake trading volume. Their research shows that wash trading affects over 80% of the top 25 bitcoin pairings.
2019-3-22 16:08 | |
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After Laurie had let his mate Aidan Parr use his Telegram Ponzi bot in which he was getting an exchange of about 33% as a cut, Parr went ahead to run his own kind of version of the Laurie Suarez RecycleBot scam straight to the ground.
2019-3-21 21:31 | |
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Blockchain investigation and cybersecurity firm CipherBlade has done its own research, the results of which seem to exonerate crypto exchange ShapeShift from a scathing report in The Wall Street Journal.
2019-3-22 20:20 | |
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The Tokyo District Court has found Mark Karpeles, the former head of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange platform Mt. Gox, guilty of record tampering but innocent on other charges related to embezzlement and breach of trust.
2019-3-16 22:01 | |
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Turkish real estate agency Antalya Homes has sold nine properties to date using bitcoin core, mostly to foreign buyers. The houses cost a minimum of €30,000 each (~$33,900) said the agency, which also accepts bitcoin cash, ethereum, stellar, ripple, litecoin and tether.
2019-3-7 01:55 | |
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Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has clarified that it does not collect or sell users’ personal data when it provides its services to crypto exchanges
2019-3-6 10:44 | |
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A major cryptocurrency exchange and two blockchain research companies have been hit with a wave of bad press over recent allegations of the sale of users’ personal information. Last month, popular U.
2019-3-6 02:46 | |
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The Crypto Valley Association, an association of industries that oversees the Swiss crypto market, is now investigating accusations that were made against one of its members after a platform was closed down in February.
2019-3-2 04:19 | |
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The cryptocurrency derivatives platform BitMEX has denied allegations that its new user agreement will allow it to sell trading data to third-party firms. BitMEX announced on Tuesday that it had updated its Terms of Service Agreement, including changes to the intellectual property clause.
2019-3-2 21:45 | |
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QuadrigaCX is one of the major stories in the cryptocurrency industry right now, as the battle continues to return the funds that crypto and fiat investors have lost. In December, the CEO passed from complications associated with Crohn’s disease during international travel but signed everything into his wife’s name before his passing. It would be […]
2019-2-27 22:24 | |
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Samsung announced on February 21, 2019, that their newest phone, the Galaxy S10, will include secure storage for its users’ cryptocurrency private keys. The company made a press release detailing the phone’s many features, notably including Samsung’s proprietary defense platform, Samsung Knox, which will feature secure private key storage that is claims is specifically “for blockchain-enabled mobile services.
2019-2-22 00:57 | |
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Thirty people in Bangkok filed complaints with Thailand’s Technology Crime Suppression Division after they were allegedly scammed by cryptocurrency cloud mining company CryptoMining. Farm, the Bangkok Post reported.
2019-2-20 06:50 | |
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Thirty people in Bangkok filed complaints with Thailand’s Technology Crime Suppression Division after they were allegedly scammed by cryptocurrency cloud mining company CryptoMining. Farm, the Bangkok Post reported.
2019-2-22 15:02 | |
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What is TrustToken? The TrustToken Platform is an Ethereum-based dApp to create asset-backed tokens and enable value transfer around the world. TrueUSD (TUSD) is the ERC-20 token and stablecoin that’s pegged to the value of the U.
2019-2-14 02:58 | |
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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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The founder of Romanian cryptocurrency exchange Coinflux will reportedly be extradited to the United States, based on multiple allegations
2019-1-5 15:04 | |
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Crypto exchange HitBTC says freezes on some account withdrawals were due to security checks, not Proof of Keys event
2019-1-4 16:33 | |
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It seems like cryptocurrency firms are not shying away from controversies anytime soon. Sydney-based Power Ledger faced fire last week after investors and industry experts called out the firm’s dubious social media practices, reported Financial Review on December 26, 2018.
2018-12-29 12:00 | |
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The Chinese crypto mining company Bitmain has apparently been hit hard by the bear market and is looking to sack more than half of their entire workforce. Credible rumors of this story first began to circulate on Maimai, China’s equivalent to LinkedIn, as anonymous sources on a site frequently used by Bitmain employees began reporting that the company was looking at massive layoffs in the next several days.
2018-12-29 21:20 | |
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The Chinese crypto mining company Bitmain has apparently been hit hard by the bear market and is looking to sack more than half of their entire workforce. Credible rumors of this story first began to circulate on Maimai, China’s equivalent to LinkedIn, as anonymous sources on a site frequently used by Bitmain employees began reporting that the company was looking at massive layoffs in the next several days.
2018-12-27 21:20 | |
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While most of the market is on its way to recovery, one cryptocurrency is still struggling. Bitcoin Private (BTCP), an anonymity-protecting protocol which launched last March, is battling against allegations that developers may have secretly premined two million coins, giving themselves control of nearly ten percent of the total supply.
2018-12-25 21:07 | |
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The topic about Brave withholding BAT token just recently popped up on r/cryptocurrency, which is the biggest subreddit on crypto. A user claims that he raised an issue with Brave and he was awarded some BAT tokens.
2018-12-10 21:53 | |
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At this stage, it appears to be a mere procedure. The Ontario Securities Commission is seeking to have USI-Tech permanently banned from its jurisdiction. This order was requested via a Statement of Allegations that was filed on December 4, 2018.
2018-12-8 01:06 | |
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The topic just popped up on the biggest crypto subreddit, r/cryptocurrency where a certain user raised an issue he had with his Brave account and “earned” BAT tokens. He claims that his post on BAT subreddit was locked by the moderators and hence accuses them of censorship and damage control.
2018-12-8 23:57 | |
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More than half of the members of Switzerland’s Crypto Valley Association (CVA) board have announced their decision to step down in January. The news comes after reports about governance issues and allegations of conflicts of interest in the leadership of the growing organization.
2018-12-4 09:54 | |
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Deutsche Bank’s headquarters and five other offices have been raided by 170 police officers, prosecutors, and tax inspectors over money laundering allegations. The bank’s written and electronic business documents were reportedly seized.
2018-11-30 16:35 | |
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The FBI has arrested the CEO of Dallas-based AriseBank on November 28, 2018, reports Dallas News. The arrest was made after allegations of company CEO, Jared Rice Sr. duping hundreds of investors out of more than $4 million.
2018-11-30 14:00 | |
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Stox, was recently in the news because of allegations of an exit scam carried out by SIRIN Labs’ founder Moshe Hogeg. The company has actively refuted this accusation, claiming that it’s work of disgruntled elements looking to spread some fear, uncertainty and doubt.
2018-11-15 16:38 | |
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Eight men, six of whom have admitted to the allegations, have been arrested for running a crypto pyramid scheme which defrauded around 6,000 people in Japan.
2018-11-15 13:12 | |
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Last month an independent crypto researcher who goes by the name, Hasu, posted an article exploring some of the most prevalent concerns users have with crypto exchange behemoth BitMEX, one of which is that the exchange trades against its customers to make a profit.
2018-11-14 02:00 | |
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2018-11-12 19:43 | |
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Allegations that Venezuela’s Petro cryptocurrency is all hot air hasn’t stopped President Nicolas Maduro from announcing a special exchange period for the Petro, and that he’ll be presenting it to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) next year as a unit of account for Venezuelan oil.
2018-11-10 23:00 | |
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The Texas Securities Board pounces on two mining operations using social media and multilevel marketing to propagate a transnational web of “fraudulent crypto-mining programs”, Director of Enforcement Joseph Rotunda informs CryptoSlate.
2018-11-8 15:00 | |
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Binance has frozen multiple accounts associated with the cryptocurrency exchange Wex, citing money laundering concerns. The CEO of Binance went on Twitter recently to announce the freezing of multiple accounts owned by Wex, claiming that Binance will cooperate with law enforcement in any way possible should a criminal investigation result from alleged money laundering.
2018-11-1 01:47 | |
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Mounting pump and dump schemes, scamming cryptocurrency investors with phony embezzlements, false claims, and misleading allegations, all are among a list of actions Ezekiel Osborne is suspected to have carried out.
2018-10-30 20:29 | |
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According to recent court documents, an Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint has been filed at a U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against BitConnect.
2018-10-19 22:58 | |
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The law offices of Pomerantz LLP in New York have filed a series of civil suits against MGT Capital Investment and its executive officers on behalf of several of the trading firm’s past or present customers.
2018-10-18 20:05 | |
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In an interesting turn of events, Bitfinex chief technology officer (CTO) Paolo Ardoino has dismissed rumors of the exchange being involved in a large-scale data breach. This came in response to claims of a significant security breach by the hacking group FSOCIETY a little over a week ago. On April 26, FSOCIETY claimed on its […]
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