U. S. Government Stops Charlie Shrem from Speaking at Bitcoin Conference
Editor's Note: Charlie Shrem has responded publicly by clarifying that he has not been banned from any conferences. A misreading of events caused by verbiage which CCN profusely apologizes for initially printing. Shrem has responded to CCN inquiries from earlier today and will release a full statement on the happenings soon. CCN wishes Charlie Shrem the best of luck in his 9/22/14 trial, his case has been previously written about here. Charlie Shrem's favorite picture of Charlie Shrem. Embattled former Bitcoin Foundation member Charlie Shrem has faced his share of legal trouble with the....
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On Sunday morning, crypto-currency website CryptoCoinsNews.com published a report [link] suggesting that Charlie Shrem had been banned from attending the Bitcoin in the Beltway conference this weekend by the U. S. Government. That information, according to the article's author, came from the event's organizer: According to Bitcoin in the Beltway organizer and Sean's Outpost founder Jason King, the government had given Charlie Shrem clearance to attend and speak at Bitcoin in the Beltway but had revoked permission at the last minute. No surprise, the story made it to the bitcoin community's....
Former BitInstant CEO and noted bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem is set to give a talk at the upcoming American Banker Digital Currencies conference in New York on 29th July. His discussion, entitled "Bitcoin Pitfalls - And How To Avoid Them", will focus on Shrem's colorful history with bitcoin, while putting a special emphasis on the challenges facing innovators. Shrem's appearance at the conference in New York is notable considering his exit from Bitcoin in the Beltway late last month. Rumors that he was banned from the Washington, DC conference owing to legal problems were later....
Charlie Shrem was formally indicted on April 10th. Three months ago, Charlie Shrem, the former Vice Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation and CEO of the now-defunct BitInstant, was arrested in New York on charges of money laundering and acting as an unlicensed money transmitter. The allegations against Shrem were that he laundered over $1 million in bitcoins for users of Silk Road - the illegal online drug marketplace that was shut down by the FBI back in October 2013, and that he wilfully neglected to report unlawful transactions that were conducted through BitInstant by Robert Faiella, a....
An example of the dangerous goods sold on Silk Road. Photo via yum9me. Many people in the Bitcoin community were shocked when they heard Charlie Shrem was arrested for allegedly laundering money for drug dealers from the Silk Road, but the moral, and perhaps even the legal, case against him is rather weak. While the US Government will definitely try to make an example out of Charlie, it's unclear as to whether or not the average person on the street would agree that he should be thrown in jail for decades. While you could make the argument that Charlie should have known what was going on....