Helix Miners: A Comprehensive Review
Helix Miners, along with Flower Technology, may have scammed their customers. A few months ago, Helix partnered with Flower Tech to be the sole distributor of Flower Tech's miners. The two companies showed off a working prototype of a Flower Tech miner and things appeared to be going as planned. However, in August, Flower Tech announced that the company had not raised enough funds to complete the ASIC design and ship out the miners in time. Flower Tech assured customers that all preorders would still be fulfilled, and that Helix and EnSilica, the chip designer, would continue securing....
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Larry Dean Harmon, founder and operator of the bitcoin mixing service Helix has pleaded guilty on Wednesday to money laundering charges. Harmon’s guilty plea follows the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Fincen) fining Harmon $60 million last year. Helix Operator Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering, Conspiracy Charges According to several reports and a court-issued plea, Ohio resident Larry Harmon (38) pled guilty in a D.C. federal court on Wednesday for money laundering and conspiracy charges. Harmon detailed in court that he plans to cooperate with federal....
Bitcoin is not a useful tool for money launderers and here’s proof. 38-years-old Larry Dean Harmon admitted to being the operator of Helix, a Bitcoin Mixer service that operated on the Darknet. According to the US Department of Justice, “Harmon advertised Helix to customers on the Darknet to conceal transactions from law enforcement.” What was this man thinking? Related Reading | DIY Bitcoin ATM Money Launderer Pleads Guilty The press release continues: Harmon admitted that Helix partnered with several Darknet markets, including AlphaBay, Evolution, Cloud 9 and others, to provide....
Six months ago a Reddit user by the name gramsadmin posted on /r/DarkNetMarkets to announce the launch of a new darknet search engine, Grams. Designed to be Google for the lesser-traveled portions of the internet, Grams has grown rapidly to become the most trusted search engine for patrons of the anonymous online markets that use bitcoins as their currency of choice. Grams is also the home of Helix, a Bitcoin tumbling service. Gramsadmin describes it as “the definitive darknet Bitcoin cleaner.” What sets Helix apart from other Bitcoin tumbling services is that it “doesn't just clean your....
Review: Zeusminer Thunder X6 NX Gen Scrypt ASIC Miner. Zeusminer has been hard at work making miners for itself as well as being the OEM manufacturer for many others. While this has kept them busy, they have also worked on getting ready to launch their NX Gen X6 miners. Zeusminers sent me over a Thunder X6 to review, and it has been fun with some interesting findings. Zeusminers X6 NX Gen miners use more chips at a lower voltage and clock to achieve a better power consumption profile per mh/s. As you can see from the specifications below, a new lower power consumption is better and still....
The operator of the darknet-based Bitcoin mixing service Helix has pleaded guilty to laundering more than $300,000 million worth of BTC from 2014 to 2017. Ohio man, Larry Dean Harmon, has pleaded guilty to laundering more than $300 million while operating the Darknet-based Bitcoin mixing service, Helix. On August 19, The U.S. Department of Justice announced that the 38-year-old pleaded guilty to laundering more than 350,000 Bitcoin through Helix from 2014 through 2017.Bitcoin mixers are used to help people anonymize their Bitcoin. In the past, this has helped people cover their tracks on....