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The Silk Road was shut down years ago and the main man behind the site is serving 2 life sentences behind bars, but, some of the money linked to his operation is moving – according to blockchain analysis. Blockchain trackers Elliptic and Ciphertrace have recently reported that about 69,370 bitcoin was moved from a wallet…
You may or may not have heard of OneCoin. If you haven’t, here’s a brief overview. OneCoin was essentially a pyramid scheme, which ran a few years ago under the direction of the “cryptoqueen” Dr Ruja, and involved investors buying packages that had “value” in the form of the cryptocurrency OneCoin. However, OneCoin wasn’t even…
A giant transaction associated with the PlusToken ponzi scheme worried traders this week, with $105 million worth of Etherium being transferred to an unknown wallet. Data from Twitter account Whale Alert, which monitors and identifies large movements of cryptocurrency, showed a single movement of 789,525 ETH ($105.1 million) between a known PlusToken wallet and an…
The CEO of Golix, claims to have lost the password to one of the exchange’s Bitcoin cold wallets. Local news reported that the CEO of Zimbabwe’s first cryptocurrency exchange allegedly lost the password in May of last year. IHare wrote that the “password fiasco” was confirmed by two separate sources, despite Kembo’s claims that the…
A California man has filed a lawsuit against AT&T claiming that its employees were enablers in a “SIM swap” scam which resulted in the theft of over $1.8 million in total, including cryptocurrencies. Seth Shapiro, the California resident, claims that between May 16 and May 18 AT&T employees transferred access to Shapiro’s mobile phone to…
A South Korean court ruled on the 25th of September that the CoinOne cryptocurrency exchange must reimburse 25 million won ($20,800) to an investor after his wallet was hacked, and a large amount of cryptocurrency was stolen. The hacker used the investor’s personal login and password to steal 45 million won, while a daily withdrawal…
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