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Titanium Blockchain CEO Sentenced to Four Years in Prison

In a cryptocurrency fraud scheme that took place in late 2017 and early 2018, investors purchased BARs, a crypto token, to participate in an...

FTX YouTube Influencers Sued for Up to $1B

The collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX last year continues to cause reverberations, with the most recent being the filing of a class-action lawsuit against...

Joseph Taschetta Uncovers Massive Crypto Fraud Ring, Gets Rewarded for His Work

Joseph Taschetta has recently been dubbed the 2022 officer of the year in the Pensacola police department after discovering an international cryptocurrency fraud ring. Joseph...

US accuses exiled Chinese tycoon Guo Wengui of $1 billion crypto-linked fraud

Guo Wengui, an exiled Chinese billionaire, was arrested in New York on Wednesday for allegedly orchestrating a more than US$1 billion fraud conspiracy that...

Why Isn’t Sam Bankman-Fried Behind Bars Yet?

Ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is still in the spotlight—but not for the right reasons. The SEC and the Department of Justice are investigating the founder...

Crypto Scammer Coin Signals Ordered to Pay $2.8 Million to Victims

The American authorities ordered Jeremy Spence (a.k.a. “Coin Signals”) to pay over $2.8 million in restitution to victims of his cryptocurrency fraud.  The US...

Opposing The Corruptible Fiat System, Bitcoin Enforces Universal Human Rights

​​This is an opinion editorial by Anita Posch, the founder of Bitcoin For Fairness who has traveled extensively around the world to learn how...

News Roundup | Nov 25, 2022

Last week saw New York banning crypto mining, El Salvador establishing a dedicated cryptocurrency office, and other crypto news items.          El...

DOJ Arrests Two Estonians in $575 Million Crypto Money Laundering Scheme

DOJ | Release | Nov 21, 2022 Image: Pexels/Kindel Media Two Estonian citizens were arrested in Tallinn, Estonia, yesterday on an 18-count indictment for their alleged...

Estonian men arrested over $575m crypto fraud

Police have arrested two men in Estonia in connection with a $575 million cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering scheme. Sergei Potapenko and...

Two Estonian citizens arrested in connection with $575 million crypto fraud and money laundering involving crypto mining service HashFlare

In October, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky with identity theft and “conspiracy to violate the Computer Fraud and...

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