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Chief Judge Beryl Howell, of the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., stayed an earlier order by a New York magistrate judge to release Ilya "Dutch" Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan on bail. The two were arrested Tuesday by federal officials on charges stemming from a 2016 hack of the Bitfinex
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Israeli police have arrested eight suspects in connection with a cryptocurrency fraud scheme after raiding their homes and seizing evidence. One of the suspects is Moshe Hogeg, a well-known owner of the premier soccer team Beitar Jerusalem Football Club. 8 People Arrested in Crypto Fraud Scheme in Israel Israeli police arrested eight
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According to leaked documents reviewed by CoinDesk, Chainalysis, the largest of the blockchain tracing firms, owns and operates “walletexplorer.com.” Like other block explorers, the service lets anyone view the history of public cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Chainalysis figures that bad actors would use its site to check transactions without fear of
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Taiwan’s police administration has reportedly arrested 14 people for running a $5.41-million (150 million New Taiwan dollars) investment scam over the past year, involving more than 100 cryptocurrency investors.CIB investigator Kuo Yu-chih said that the scam was led by a local businessman named Chen, who ran the operation on social
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Fourteen suspects allegedly behind a cryptocurrency scam have been arrested in Taiwan. According to the country’s Criminal Investigation Bureau, the scheme has defrauded investors out of millions of dollars. Suspects Behind Crypto Scam in Taiwan Arrested The country’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) explained that the crypto scam allegedly defrauded more than 100
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Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest tracks every important crypto news story from the previous week. Essential reading for all Hodlers! Top Stories This Week CFTC charges BitMEX with illegally operating derivatives exchangeThe U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has charged the derivatives exchange BitMEX with operating an unregistered trading platform and violating Anti-Money
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The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) detained terrorists who demanded bitcoin in return for not blowing up buildings in the country’s capital. According to a post on SSU’s Facebook page, two 60-year-old men posted a paper note on an apartment building in Kyiv threatening to blow up that building or another
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The crypto community was brought down to its knees in late 2017 when a massive crypto heist was performed on a then-presumed unhackable crypto exchange platform, EtherDelta.Thankfully, two suspects were captured in relation to the case. The suspects, Anthony Tyler Nashatka and Elliot Gunton, allegedly carried out the crypto heist
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The United States attorney's office for the Northern District of California has indicted two suspects — Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka — for hacking EtherDelta, a non-custodial marketplace for trading Ethereum (ETH) ERC-20 tokens, in December 2017.According to the documents originally filed on Aug. 13, Ganton and Nashatka
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