Bitcoin Fraudster Receives 18-Month Prison Time
Trendon Shavers, the person convicted of operating a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme through Bitcoin Savings & Trust receives 18 month prison sentence. The person behind the first ever Bitcoin securities fraud in the United States is going to spend the next 18 months in prison. Trendon Shavers, the founder of Bitcoin Savings and Trust, a proven ponzi company, was convicted for luring people into investing 764,000 bitcoins (~$4.5 million at the time of investment) with the promise of 7% weekly returns. He later disappeared with the raised sum, reportedly spending it to pay early investors, and for....
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Russian authorities have investigated a number of cases involving the theft of crypto mining equipment in the past months. A resident of Yaroslavl has just been found guilty of stealing mining hardware worth over $20,000 and sentenced to three years in prison.
Russian Convicted of Stealing Mining Rigs Receives Prison Sentence
A 34-year-old man from the city of Yaroslavl, some 250 kilometers northeast of Moscow, has been found responsible for the theft of equipment for cryptocurrency mining. The hardware’s value has been estimated at 1.6 million rubles (almost $22,000),....
German authorities have seized a Bitcoin wallet containing 1,700 BTC, valued at approximately $60 million at the current price. However, the wallet owner refuses to cooperate in disclosing the password. The seizure came about after an investigation into covert crypto-malware installations over two years ago. The fraudster at the heart of the storm has since […]