Alleged GainBitcoin scam kingpin offers to repay investors in Indian rupees
Amit Bhardwaj, the alleged mastermind behind the GainBitcoin scheme, has offered to pay back investors their initial investments—in Indian rupees.
Amit Bhardwaj, the alleged mastermind behind the GainBitcoin scheme, has offered to pay back investors their initial investments—in Indian rupees.
Twelve people in Brazil were charged with using SegWit BTC to launder millions of dollars that they earned from a drug smuggling racket that reached Europe, Africa and Asia.
Bitcoin Cash recovered very well from its sub $700 levels and was trading at $721 at press time on Monday after having reached the $730 level on Sunday.
CBOE, considered to be the world’s largest futures exchange by volume, said the ETF would allow investors to speculate on BTC, without engaging directly in the market.
The cryptocurrency markets continued their steep decline on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning with all major currencies dropping by large margins that varied between 5% and 10%.
The cryptocurrency markets experienced a rapid downturn on Tuesday morning, where practically all the gains made over the past few days were erased in a matter of hours.
The cryptocurrency markets maintained the slight gains achieved over the weekend, although there was a small retracement on Monday morning at press time.
Dead Coins listed over 800 crypto tokens that were either extinct or now worth less than a cent, which, when combined with the failures of BTC, painted a bleak picture for initial coin offerings and token sales.
The cryptocurrency markets continued to trade sideways over the past 24 hours with most of the major coins showing very little movement either way.
Global travel booking website Expedia has removed BTC from its website's payment options, marking an end to the company's four-year business relationship with the crypto coin.
U.S. authorities seized stockpiles of illegal drugs, gold, firearms, vehicles, crypto mining devices and computer equipment, as well as nearly 2,000 BTC and other cryptocurrencies, with an approximate value of more than $20 million.
The cryptocurrency markets continued to experience negative sentiment over the past 24 hours, with all of the top 10 coins registering a decrease.