Crypto Crime Cartel

BitMEX founders admit Bank Secrecy Act violations, pay $20M fines
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25 February, 2022

BitMEX founders admit Bank Secrecy Act violations, pay $20M fines

Arthur Hayes and Benjamin Delo, co-founders of the BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange, have pled guilty to using their platform as a...
India: Authorities arrest 11 in $5.3M Ethereum scam
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23 February, 2022

India: Authorities arrest 11 in $5.3M Ethereum scam

The authorities arrested the leaders of Ether Trade Asia, which lured investors to its Ether investment funds and then made...
BTC’s ‘CoinPool’—scaling solution or fancy coin mixer?
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23 February, 2022

BTC’s ‘CoinPool’—scaling solution or fancy coin mixer?

CoinPool promotes itself as a way to increase "coin onboarding and transactional scaling by orders of magnitude," but in reality,...
Coinbase, Kraken CEOs’ tough talk holding back digital currency adoption
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22 February, 2022

Coinbase, Kraken CEOs’ tough talk holding back digital currency adoption

The CEOs of cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Kraken may find out the hard way that there’s a price to be...
FCA concerned about Binance’s backdoor re-entry into UK payments network
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21 February, 2022

FCA concerned about Binance’s backdoor re-entry into UK payments network

Binance announced a partnership with Paysafe that once again gives it access to the U.K. payments network, having lost it...
Bitfinex hack: One-half of NYC couple accused in $4.5B laundering case released on bail
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17 February, 2022

Bitfinex hack: One-half of NYC couple accused in $4.5B laundering case released on bail

Judge Beryl Howell has revoked the bond which had been granted to Ilya Lichtenstein, agreeing with prosecutors that he was...
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