How This Crypto Company Will Use Garlic To Ward Off The SEC
LBRY, Inc., a crypto company behind a P2P digital marketplace powered by a native token, has been in a legal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Similar to payment company Ripple, the regulator accused LBRY of illegal sales of security with the token LBRY Credits (LBC). Related Reading | Ripple Could Beat SEC? […]
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Did you know cryptocurrency can be 420X funnier when they are clean, garlic bread meme, and also have real tokenomics? Well, although a memecoin, Garlicoin is just that. A few years ago, garlic bread memes were really popular and on top of every memelord’s collection. Following the trend, in December 2017, a Reddit user, DigitalizedOrange, […]
A chemist threatened to kill supermarket shoppers with cyanide he bought on the dark web with bitcoins in a £2 million blackmail attempt. He’s received a seven-year prison sentence after racking up a long list of minor offenses and admitting to blackmail. Chemist Buys Cyanide with Bitcoin, Fails at Blackmail. David Ward, 51, told a national supermarket....
In the huge amount of bitcoin that the United States Federal Government is holding, one man feels his bit of digital money is being held captive: and he wants it back. Peter Ward of the United Kingdom has reportedly begun the process of putting a lawyer on retainer in order to file a claim for about $95,000 worth of bitcoins - about 100 BTC. The money was taken during the Silk Road seizure last year, and Ward says he made it through entirely legal means. See, Ward sells things like rolling papers, bongs, and vaporizers. He's even got his own public online shop called Planet-Pluto. "I'm....
Peter Ward argues that the 100 Bitcoins seized from him in the US government’s raid on the Silk Road last year were taken unlawfully, and he has announced a plan to lawyer up and try to get them back. Ward, the owner of a head shop in Devon, England, sold bongs and rolling papers on the Silk Road, the same things he currently sells in his Planet Pluto shop. He told Forbes that he can prove all of his transactions were legal and thus were not subject to forfeiture. Ward was also arrested in his home by the UK’s National Crime Agency, whose agents confiscated a personal stash of marijuana....
Two U.K. men who pleaded guilty to selling drugs on the Silk Road Marketplace website were each sentenced to five years in jail, according to The Express & Star in the U.K. Richard Hiley worked with Peter Ward, who was reported to be a major figure on the dark web and used the name PlutoPete. Ward commissioned Hiley, a former customer, to transfer bitcoins into cash. The duo claimed to be running a legitimate business offering legal highs. Ward called himself a “psychonaut,” specializing in military-grade foil packaging that could hide illegal materials from detection. Ward also....