All Things Alt: Ponzi Schemes, Blackcoin USBs and a Time Warp Attack
With another week gone by, let's shine the spotlight on recent developments and interesting finds in the world of alternative digital currencies. Shibes scheme in new online game. The popular meme-based digital currency dogecoin has been credited by some as providing a friendly introduction to digital currencies. However, now it is being leveraged to welcome people into a not-so-friendly corner of finance: the ponzi scheme. PonziDoge is billed as a "virtual experiment game" designed to educate people about the nature of ponzi schemes, a form of financial fraud that involves collecting....
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The latest DeFi incursion involves flash loans ... again. DeFi lending protocol Warp Finance has reportedly suffered a flash loan attack resulting in the loss of as much as $8 million in digital assets.Reports are coming in that an attacker has made off with between $1 million, to as much as $8 million according to DeFi Prime. The losses follow a series of flash loans that have exploited vulnerabilities in the Warp Finance protocol.Warp Finance is a new DeFi platform announced in early November that enables users to deposit liquidity provider (LP) tokens from other protocols and receive....
Is it really necessary to implement AML and KYC regulations for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies? There has been some debate on the need of blanket Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations for Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Even though it is a long-standing debate, it was further fueled by a recent blog post by Tim Swanson, the Director of Market Research at R3CEV, where he calls for such regulations by giving examples of few frauds and Ponzi schemes in the cryptocurrency sector. Ponzi Schemes and Frauds Were There Even before Bitcoin. Greed is an....
Warp Finance, a protocol enabling liquidity provisioning (LP) tokens to be used as collateral for stablecoin loans, is re-launching after a successful recovery and reimbursement of hacked funds. This novel platform was the unfortunate victim of a flash loan attack, an increasingly prevalent problem in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space whereby hackers are able to essentially cheat the protocol and pull large amounts of money out of it. Warp carried out a quick and sweeping […]
This particular Ponzi Scheme in Vietnam will give Bitcoin a bad reputation in the country. Cryptocurrency is not regulated by the banks, and the local government is not too keen on Bitcoin either. Ever since the inception of Bitcoin, there have been individuals and companies trying to discredit cryptocurrency. Some of them even go as far as setting up deliberate Ponzi Schemes to defraud Bitcoin investors. Such a scheme seems to be on the brink of collapse in Vietnam. Hundreds of people have been burned by this pyramid scheme, which seemed to rely on an MLM structure. It is not the first....
After exploding onto the scene during the first quarter of 2014, the Blackcoin price has declined consistently. However, on September 10 the Blackcoin price increased by as much as 18% at its peak (although it declined briefly by the end of the day). Nevertheless, Blackcoin sustained a price increase of more than 10% over the course of 24 hours. CCN examines the 24-hour Blackcoin price increase so investors can decide whether or not it is the beginning of a longer trend. Blackcoin Price Climbs Out of the Red. 24-hour price Blackcoin price chart from CoinGecko. When it first burst onto the....