Cryptocurrency Analysis and News Portal
Ross Ulbricht’s case has garnered significant public attention, and numerous individuals have advocated for clemency for the website’s founder. Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the now-defunct online black market Silk Road, has reached the somber milestone of a decade behind bars. In 2013, US authorities sentenced him to a double life
Read More
The founder of the former online black market Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, marked 10 years behind bars after he was given a double life sentence by United States authorities in 2013. On Oct. 2 Ulbricht posted on X that he has already spent a full decade in prison and fears he
Read More
Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers made a third attempt to secure his temporary release from prison, but a New York court denied their request just days before his trial begins in October. District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that Bankman-Fried must stay at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) since his defense
Read More
The co-founder of AirBit Club — a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that swindled investors of over $100 million — has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in a $100 million "pyramid scheme" that purported to be involved in crypto mining. The sentencing comes nearly seven months after
Read More
In a landmark verdict, Pablo Renato Rodriguez, the co-founder of AirBit Club, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by US
Read More
MDC Brooklyn is a large prison complex encompassing two buildings and housing more than 1,600 male and female prisoners, many of whom still await trial. As a mixed-security facility, the MDC houses inmates with a variety of criminal histories, including terrorism, organized crime and drug smuggling, a report from the
Read More
“When a judge is sentencing a defendant in a multi-count case, assuming conviction on multiple counts, judges generally say ‘I’m going to distill this down to what the alleged crime is,’” Auerbach said. “If the essential crime is, let’s assume a conviction that Bankman-Fried misled his investors, his lenders and
Read More
A German court rejected the appeal against the hefty sentences given to the management of Cyberbunker for hosting deep web black markets on their servers. The German Federal Court of Justice largely upheld the defendants’ convictions in the so-called “Cyberbunker trial” in a ruling on Sept. 12, 2023. The eight defendants’
Read More
Karl Sebastian Greenwood pleaded guilty on December 16, 2022, to operating a multi-billion cryptocurrency pyramid scheme dubbed OneCoin. In a bid to send a strong message to the cryptocurrency community around the world, Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the southern district of New York, announced on Tuesday that Karl
Read More
Karl Sebastian Greenwood, the co-founder of OneCoin, who pleaded guilty in December, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Karl Sebastian Greenwood, one of the key architects behind the OneCoin pyramid scheme that defrauded investors out of $4 billion, has been handed a 20-year prison sentence. The ruling was issued
Read More