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The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged four founders of Forsage for orchestrating the multi-million dollar global DeFi Ponzi and pyramid scheme. If convicted, the defendants could spend up to 20 years in prison. DoJ indicts Forsage founders …
2023-2-24 17:10 | |
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Gregory Coleman, a veteran Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent who worked on the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme and Jordan Belfort's conviction as the "Wolf of Wall Street," has outlined how prosecutors could approach the FTX cryptocurrency exchange case.
2022-12-23 01:07 | |
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Visa has proposed a blockchain account design that could allow Ethereum users to arrange auto-payments from a self-custodied wallet. The post Visa proposes Ethereum auto-payment scheme appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-12-20 02:30 | |
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Will your losses to FTX be classified as capital losses or as a “theft loss” that involved a Ponzi scheme? Either way, you’ll probably win.
2022-12-17 01:48 | |
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Crypto project XEN has burnt $1.85 million in ETH in the past 24 hours, but some in the crypto community warn that it could just be a pump-and-dump scheme. The post This Token Guzzled 42% of Ethereum Gas in the Past 24 Hours appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-10-10 09:42 | |
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Famous investor Simon Dixon recently described El Salvador’s Bitcoin policy as “very responsible” and said it could be the first domino to fall in bringing down the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) “fiat-based Ponzi scheme” debt mechanism if it succeeds.
2022-8-23 17:00 | |
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If successful, the DOJ could theoretically use the case as a model to police market manipulation for other assets, regardless of whether they are considered securities. Regulators are watching.
2022-6-11 01:58 | |
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South Korean prosecutors are reportedly weighing whether they could charge Do Kwon for running a Ponzi scheme by promising unsustainably high fixed interest rates on UST deposits via Anchor Protocol....
2022-5-20 13:16 | |
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A recently taken down investigation by Rekt News about the Fantom Foundation dug into several moves that could point to a lack of transparency from the DeFi platform. The article had called it “an elaborate scheme,” but apparently failed to approach the subject with enough accuracy.
2022-3-11 18:00 | |
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Attorneys said efforts to locate the convicted founder could remain unfruitful.
2022-3-2 11:20 | |
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Coinspeaker Priority Queue for CoinList Token Sales Revealed According to CoinList, the Priority Queue is a scheme that seeks to reward validators, stakers, miners and other registrants, and other people who could have helped with the growth and success of the token.
2021-6-25 16:02 | |
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A new scheme from Reality Gaming Group is offering NFT trading cards from Doctor Who: Worlds Apart as an incentive to liquidity providers.
2021-1-16 16:08 | |
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The Arbistar case victims’ defense lawyer claims that the overall number of those affected amounts to 32,000 families with at least 93.4 million euros ($113.55 million) in losses. Lawyer in Arbistar Case Reveals Details on Class-Actions Lawsuits Against the Alleged Crypto Ponzi Scheme During an interview with Eldiario, Carlos Aránguez, a Spanish lawyer who represents […] The post Lawyer Who Represents Victims of Alleged Spanish Crypto Ponzi Says It Could Be the ‘Biggest One’ in the Country appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2020-12-16 16:30 | |
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Perhaps the most common myth about bitcoin is that the flagship cryptocurrency allows people to conduct completely anonymous transactions. This myth could have had a hand in the misfortune of one Kristy Lynn Felkins, a Nevada woman who has been indicted by US authorities for using bitcoin to hire an assassin on the dark web […]
2020-9-29 11:13 | |
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The Bank of England (BoE) is exploring negative interest rates now and in response Sterling weakened sharply. The pound dropped 0. 7% against the dollar after the central bank’s plans “to explore how a negative Bank Rate could be implemented effectively, should the outlook for inflation and output warrant it at some point,” were revealed.
2020-9-19 19:30 | |
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Researchers are warning that the supposed scheme could have swindled billions.
2020-9-15 16:19 | |
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In 2019, one of the biggest narratives in the crypto market was the PlusToken pyramid scheme. The post Trader fears $200m in Ethereum collected by a new crypto Ponzi could cause a “disaster” appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-9-9 14:00 | |
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In a boost to AMPL farmers, the Ampleforth Foundation has announced a fresh yield farming scheme scheduled to go live next week. The first initiative caused an exponential rise in AMPL's valuation, and this one could do the same.
2020-9-5 16:48 | |
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The Bitcoin uptrend could be in peril, QuadrigaCX described as a “Ponzi scheme,” and Coinbase is punished for outages.
2020-6-15 00:00 | |
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A class action against the accused cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme may be dismissed with prejudice unless the plaintiffs up their game.
2020-4-14 12:15 | |
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A cryptocurrency investment scheme called Bitcoin Revolution has recently garnered interest worldwide with its claim that investors could easily earn over $1,000 a day. They could even become millionaires within 61 days using the Bitcoin Revolution app.
2020-4-2 16:30 | |
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MIT researchers have created a new crypto-routing scheme to notably reduce blockchain-based transaction processing times
2020-2-4 16:42 | |
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Bitcoin mining giant, Bitmain Technologies, is in the news again for something negative. This time around, there are reports that the bitcoin mining company is involved with a crypto Ponzi scheme, BitClub Network, causing the company to come under the radar of the U.
2020-1-23 00:00 | |
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The biggest $3 billion Chinese-Ponzi scheme PlusToken might be the reason behind the 50% drop in Bitcoin price from its 2019 high of $13,900. But now, the Ponzi could put selling pressure on Ethereum as well.
2019-12-19 16:48 | |
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Whale Alert detects 789,525 ETH transferred by the South Korea-based PlusToken scam, the community fears that an ETH price dump could be coming
2019-12-19 13:04 | |
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On Monday, the blockchain surveillance company Chainalysis published an excerpt from the firm’s upcoming crime report that will publish in January. According to the Chainalysis research, the Ponzi scheme called Plustoken not only defrauded investors out of $3 billion but the scam “may also be driving down the price of bitcoin.
2019-12-17 16:00 | |
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Blockchain compliance firm Chainalysis has issued a new report suggesting that PlusToken, the multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme widely suspected to have been driving down the price of Bitcoin with mass liquidations, could have misappropriated less crypto than previously alleged.
2019-12-17 12:00 | |
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PlusToken could be the real reason why the BTC continues to bleed
2019-12-4 09:00 | |
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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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Some still assert that the launch of two bitcoin futures products crashed markets in 2017 as it was the first time investors could short the asset. What they have done has completely changed the landscape two years later.
2019-10-24 11:00 | |
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A San Francisco-based cryptocurrency startup has just announced that is has raised $50 million from investors. Layer 1’s aim is to operate an all-in-house Bitcoin mining facility in West Texas.
2019-10-16 01:00 | |
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Bitcoin bull Anthony ?Pomp? shares information about difficulties in the pension scheme of General Electric giant, says Bitcoin is a way out for pension funds
2019-10-8 13:32 | |
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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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Currently trading around $10,000, Bitcoin lost 18% of its value this week, wreaking havoc in the cryptocurrency market. Though a drop has been long expected because of the sharp rise of BTC price and the gaps created by CME Group's Bitcoin futures contracts, a prominent reason could be large amounts of BTC dumped in the […]
2019-8-15 21:28 | |
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Allegedly collapsed China-based Ponzi scheme Plus Token may be liquidating on exchanges portions of a reported $3. 5 billion cache of stolen cryptocurrency, according to venture capitalist Dovey Wan, who is now appealing to the crypto ecosystem to spread awareness of the “critical” matter “before it’s too late”.
2019-8-16 12:19 | |
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Coinspeaker Barclays Broke Up with Coinbase and Put Crypto Relations to ColdCoinbase’s partnership with Barclays allowed British clients to use Coinbase extensively. The end of this partnership could also potentially end Coinbase users’ access to the UK “Faster Payments Scheme” (FPS).
2019-8-14 11:41 | |
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Cryptocurrency scammers continued to swindle funds throughout Q2 2019, netting approximately $4. 26 billion so far this year. According to CipherTrace latest report, insider thefts were by far the largest offenders, netting massive loses on investors and cryptocurrency exchange users.
2019-8-13 12:22 | |
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By CCN Markets: The Italian government is mulling the decision to issue a “parallel currency” in a move that could plunge the eurozone into crisis – and provide the best case yet for mass bitcoin adoption.
2019-6-14 16:15 | |
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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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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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“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.
2019-6-3 17:43 | |
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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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On March 21, 2019, Dutch news outlet NL Times reported that “Berry van M. ,” a 33-year-old Dutch businessman and the operator of now-defunct trading platform Koinz Trading, has been arrested on charges of deceiving investors with a bogus bitcoin mining scheme.
2019-5-21 19:56 | |
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In the latest on the ongoing legal dispute between the New York Attorney General (NYAG), cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin issuer Tether, the New York Supreme Court has modified an April 24, 2019, preliminary injunction and now Bitfinex is allowed to continue using the Tether reserves that were loaned to it to maintain its ordinary course of business, such as paying employees and consultants.
2019-5-18 22:14 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. The bitcoin price has broken $8,000 for the first time since July 2018, with most cryptocurrencies trading in the green.
2019-5-15 19:01 | |
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Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.
2019-5-13 18:34 | |
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Chinese crypto exchange Binance suffered a major hack on Tuesday, which the company’s CEO responded to by proposing a rollback of the Bitcoin blockchain to rectify — a suggestion that riled up the community.
2019-5-8 21:39 | |
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In a handful of oil fields in the Great White North, natural gas, an otherwise wasted drilling by-product, is being put to work. But it’s not being used to well more oil; it’s being used to mine bitcoin.
2019-5-8 20:07 | |
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The Reserve Bank of India is due to finally conclude a case that will finally determine how cryptocurrency will be used within the country. However, Anurag Agarwal of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs could have a major influence – will he use that power towards the good of the crypto industry? Anurag Agarwal states that […]
2019-5-5 00:36 | |
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Заместитель председателя Совета по развитию цифровой экономики при Совете Федерации России Артем Шейкин заявил, что необходимо разработать собственный подход к выпуску и регулированию стейблкоинов.
Хакеры за сентябрь совершили 20 крупных атак на криптопроекты. Самой пострадавшей стала платформа UXLINK, потерявшая $44 млн, сообщили аналитики работающей в области кибербезопасности компании PeckShield.
Сумма ущерба от взлома главных библиотек экосистемы JavaScript составила всего $50 в эфире и мемкоинах, сообщили аналитики работающей в сфере кибербезопасности компании Security Alliance.
Генеральный директор Tether Паоло Ардоино (Paolo Ardoino) заявил, что компания обязательно получит в США статус иностранного эмитента стейблкоинов, как того требует меняющееся американское законодательство.
Сооснователь Эфириума Виталик Бутерин призвал разработчиков криптовалютных проектов дать пользователем реальные гарантии децентрализации, а не прибегать ради маркетинга к «модным словечкам».
Пассивный доход — это деньги, которые мы получаем без регулярного активного участия. Абсолютно безопасными и доходными для новичков будут стратегии, основанные на привязанных к курсу долларов стейблкоинах или активах с низким колебанием цены и понятными перспективами роста.
Основатель Cardano Чарльз Хоскинсон (Charles Hoskinson) в подкасте Conversations with Leaders заявил, что на базе блокчейна может быть создан стейблкоин, с уровнем приватности, сопоставимым с наличными деньгами.