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A UK IT engineer who mistakenly threw away a hard drive with around £210 million ($288 million) of bitcoin on it is applying to the local government to search wasteland for the device. Read more: UK Treasury Calls for Feedback on Approach to Cryptocurrency and Stablecoin Regulation Source
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A South Florida federal district judge sentenced a Washington, D.C., man to six years in federal prison for operating a $25 million diamond investment scheme that included a crypto component. He must also pay over $23 million in victim restitution. The accused, Jose Angel Aman, and his partners were sentenced by U.S.
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At first, Balaji Srinivasan held his tongue about the coronavirus. Years before he became an angel investor and intellectual firebrand of the cryptocurrency community, Srinivasan had co-founded a genetic testing company that was eventually sold for $375 million. He had also written papers on microbial and clinical genomics and taught bioinformatics
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A Dublin man involved in the theft of more than $2 million in cryptocurrency through SIM-swap attacks has been sentenced to almost three years in prison.Conor Freeman, 21, was handed down a two-year and 11-month sentence in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Tuesday. He had pleaded guilty to several
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Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego just declared 10% of his portfolio is now tied up in bitcoin.Announced in a tweet on Wednesday, Mexico’s second-wealthiest man responded to questions that “many people” ask him about bitcoin, saying: “YES. I have 10% of my liquid portfolio invested.”“Bitcoin protects the citizen from government
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The island's Financial Services Authority has set out how it will treat cryptocurrencies and crypto assets and which might be regulated as securities. Source
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As well as making cryptocurrency transactions, the man is alleged to have bought luxury cars and property to launder funds. Source
Read MoreResponding to a tweet from Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder of the Gemini crypto exchange, rock star Gene Simmons said he plans to make Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) more easily accessible. "It's easier to buy Bitcoin and Ether if you are already in the old system," Winklevoss said in a Sept. 15
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A man from Washington, D.C., has been charged with running a diamond investment scam with its own cryptocurrency, Argyle Coin. Source
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The man was sentenced to three years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane for his part in the robbery and beating of a bitcoin buyer. Source
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