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The husband and wife alleged to have laundered billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin connected to the 2016 Bitfinex hack have reached a plea agreement with authorities in the United States.According to records filed with U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia on July 21, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather
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Hackers continue their relentless attacks, displaying no signs of slowing down. Shortly after the Multichain hack, scammers started spreading a phishing link on Twitter.The fraudulent distribution of Fantom (FTM) to users — falsely linked to the Multichain attack — is rapidly spreading on Twitter, attracting significant attention. The post has
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Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied Outspoken bitcoin maximalist Max Keiser has made a controversial allegation, branding Ripple as a “Ponzi scheme,” adding that the millions of dollars spent by its CEO, Brad Garlinghouse, have failed to rescue the blockchain company. Bitcoin supporter blasts Ripple,
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Joseph O'Conner, a British man who made roughly $900,000 in an elaborate Twitter hack and a separate crypto-related SIM-swapping scheme, received a 5 year sentence from a federal judge on Friday, Inner City Press reported. Source
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This month, the crypto company faced issues with regulators in at least four countries.This month, the crypto company faced issues with regulators in at least four countries. The Director of Binance in Brazil Guilherme Haddad could be called to appear before the Brazilian Parliament. This is because there is an ongoing
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A team of researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg recently published a paper detailing methods investigators and courts can use to determine the validity of deanonymized data on the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain.The team’s preprint paper, “Argumentation Schemes for Blockchain Deanonymization,” lays out a blueprint for conducting, verifying and presenting investigations into crimes involving
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A team of researchers at the Singapore University of Social Sciences recently conducted an appraisal of existing decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) voting schemes to determine which was most efficient. The researchers ultimately concluded that existing popular voting schemes each had their drawbacks and advantages and that a new paradigm combining what
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Johann Steynberg, the founder and CEO of Mirror Trading International, has been ordered to pay over $1.73 billion in restitution to victims of his bitcoin ponzi scheme. The court has also ordered Steynberg to pay a civil monetary penalty of a similar amount. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) conceded
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Securities regulators from Montana, Texas, and Alabama have jointly filed enforcement actions against cryptocurrency trading platform YieldTrust.ai alleging it is “perpetrating a Ponzi scheme.”According to April 4 statements from the Montanian, Texan and Alabamian regulators, YieldTrust.ai and its Romanian owner, Stefan Ciopraga, claimed the decentralized application (dApp) called "YieldBot" is
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The announcement comes five months after a bad actor minted $1 billion worth of pGALA, a wrapped version of GALA that trades on BNB Chain, and offloaded the tokens on decentralized exchanges including PancakeSwap, plunging the price of the GALA 94%. PNetwork, Gala Games’ cross-chain interoperability bridge, said at the
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