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When Norwegian millionaire Tom Hagen reported that his wife had been kidnapped in October 2018, included was a ransom note demanding $10 million worth of the cryptocurrency Monero.Now, after Hagen’s arrest by local authorities on April 28 on suspicion the murder of Anne-Elisabeth Hagen, it seems as if the ransom
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Kirill Victorovich Firsov, the alleged owner of Russian-based anonymous marketplace Deer.io, was arrested on March 7 by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.Court documents allege that Firsov is the mastermind behind Deer.io — a site that offered darknet-style services in exchange
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The drama in the crypto mining arena just got a lot more intense and interesting as the founder of Bitmain’s top rival firm MicroBT is currently still in the Chinese police custody.The suspect, who was reportedly nabbed by the police at the end of October this year, happens to be
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Yang Zuoxing, formerly a top chip designer for mining hardware giant Bitmain, has allegedly been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement. A Dec. 16 Bloomberg report cites three unnamed sources and a police statement released by prosecutors in Beijing’s Nanshan district on Dec. 12, as evidence for the claim. The authorities’ statement
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Caixin said in the report, citing people familiar with the case, that the person arrested is indeed the founder and CEO of MicroBT, which manufactures the WhatsMiner bitcoin mining equipment with about 40 percent of the market share. The alleged embezzlement amount is 100,000 yuan, or about $15,000, the report
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U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced the arrests of four men who were accused of defrauding investors during an investigation of a crypto Ponzi scheme called the BitClub Network. The fraudulent scheme was based on a whopping $722 million cryptocurrency mining scam.Yes, you’ve been reading it right, seven hundred and twenty
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United States authorities in New Jersey have announced the arrest of three men who are accused of defrauding investors of over $722 million as part of alleged crypto ponzie scheme BitClub Network, per a Dec. 10 announcement from the Department of Justice.The accusations against BitClub NetworkAccording to the press
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According to local news outlets in Thailand, 24 Chinese have been arrested in the country under the accusation of running a crypto investment scam. The authorities conducted the raid in a call center where the Chinese nationals were allegedly conducting a Bitcoin(BTC)trade con scheme.One of the news outlets who reported
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The case offers a litmus test of sorts: Was Griffith's appearance in North Korea a brazen violation of economic sanctions or a noble act of spreading ethereum's gospel of global reinvention? Source
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Virgil Griffith, a developer who currently works with the Ethereum Foundation, has been arrested upon arrival in the US after speaking at the Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference in North Korea in April. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Friday that Griffith had been
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