Bitcoin Ponzi CryptoDouble Disappears With At Least 2233 Bitcoins
Bitcoin scams are back. CryptoDouble, a website founded on the promise of doubling its users' deposits within 100 hours, ceased all its operations. At least 2233 BTC (about $500,000) have been cashed out on BTC-E, leaving thousands of customers out of pocket. The service gained a significant popularity on Bitcointalk, where customers first testified about the service and its supposed effectiveness. Despite several warnings from advanced Bitcoin users andprevious Bitcoin Ponzi scams, a significant number of users have been attracted by the website's promises and its investment....
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CryptoDouble, a newly launched company that promised to double cryptocurrency investments within 100 hours of deposit, recently disappeared with customers' 1,000 BTC - leaving behind nothing but an offline website. From what we could gather from the leftover material, CryptoDouble claimed itself to be a brainchild of some really serious "investors" that were able to return twice the amount deposited. An excerpt from their dead website read: "[We] are the group of professional traders and skilled analysts with valuable experience in the sphere of cryptocurrency. All transactions in the....
In another twist to the Mirror Trading International (MTI) bitcoin Ponzi scam, the blockchain intelligence firm Whitestream says bitcoins from wallets associated with the company are being sent to Wasabi privacy mixers. According to Whitestream’s update, this pivot to mixers suggests that operators of the Ponzi are trying to obfuscate the movement of the bitcoins. Conspiracy to Hide Funds The reports of MTI bitcoins going to mixers follow the recent disappearance of the company’s CEO, Johann Steynberg late last year. This also comes after a South African court granted a....
Happy Sunday, and welcome back to another Bitcoin News in Review, where we feature some of the top stories of the week, here on CryptoCoins News. This week, the bitcoin price dropped below $200 USD before slightly rising again to the low $200's, bitcoin scam CryptoDouble disappeared with over 2000 bitcoins, bitcoin payments processor EgoPay ceased all trading, and more. Keep scrolling for this week's top stories. Bitcoin Price. The bitcoin price dropped to nearly $150 USD this week, before going back up to the low 200s. This continues the long downwards price trend we've seen over the past....
A 33-year-old Texan man pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi scheme involving bitcoins, making it the first ever U. S. criminal fraud case related to the cryptocurrency. Texas native Trendon Shavers has admitted to operating a Ponzi scheme running $4.5 million worth of bitcoins, Reuters reports. Shavers aka "pirateat40" while online, was arrested in November, a couple of months after being ordered to pay $40.7 million in a U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil lawsuit related to the Ponzi case. The case is a milestone, with prosecutors noting that it is the first U. S. criminal....
Reports are emerging from Hong Kong that local bitcoin exchange MyCoin has shut its doors, taking with it possibly as much as HK$3bn ($386.9m) in investor funds. If true, the supposed losses are a staggering amount, although this estimate is based on the company's own earlier claims that it served 3,000 clients who had invested HK$1m ($129,000) each. For perspective, bitcoin's entire market cap today stands at around USD$3bn. The issue came to light on Friday when about 30 people claiming to be victims of the company's actions petitioned a local member of the Legislative Council, Leung....