Mark Karpeles, who headed Mt. Gox, a Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange that went bankrupt after a massive hacking, was found guilty Friday of manipulating electronic data but cleared of embezzlement and breach of trust charges.
Read moreCreating a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency empire that billed itself as the “Bitcoin Killer,” a brother-and-sister team pumped their product in public and trashed their customers in private. Prosecutors arrested the brother on Wednesday and announced Friday that his sister remains at large.
Read moreIn a federal class action, nearly 100 named plaintiffs claim Zions Bancorporation aided and abetted a $5 million Ponzi scam.
Read moreNano, BitGrail and others defrauded investors of $170 million in cryptocurrency that was “lost” on BitGrail, consumers claim in a federal class action.
Read moreShareholders claim in a federal class action that Nvidia Corp. misled investors about its cryptocurrency operations, and the share price dropped in two days by $57.69 — 18 percent — when the truth emerged, and that CEO Jen-Hsun Huang sold $18 million worth of shares at the inflated price.
Read moreAB Mining Ltd. claims Global Blockchain Mining Corp. and Global Blockchain Technologies Corp. owe it $37.5 million, in a breach-of-contract claim in British Columbia Supreme Court.
Read moreA wave of bomb threats swept across the United States on Thursday, prompting evacuations at courthouses, businesses, schools and places of worship.
Read moreThe boxer Floyd Mayweather agreed Thursday to pay the SEC $614,775 in penalties and disgorgement, and music producer DJ Khaled (Khaled Khaled) $152,275, for failing to disclose payoffs they received for promoting Initial Coin Offerings.
Read moreFederal prosecutors said Wednesday they arrested the head of an alleged $4.25 million Dallas-based cryptocurrency scam that ripped off hundreds of investors.
Read moreThe European Court of Justice signed off Thursday on the practice of the air carrier Germanwings to express the price of a flight from London to Stuttgart, Germany, in pounds sterling rather than euros, since the former is the local currency in England.
Read moreA man who bought 75 bitcoins claims in a federal complaint that Oklahoma-based Bitcoin Market LLC locked him out of his account, which he values at $530,000.
Read moreA Mexican man faces up to five years in federal prison, plus $823,357 in disgorgement, after pleading guilty Monday to running an illegal money-transmitting business involving bitcoins.
Read moreThe SEC unsealed a federal fraud complaint against Reginald Buddy Ringgold III aka Rasool Abdul Rahim El, of San Diego, whom it accuses of lying repeatedly and falsely claiming SEC affiliation for his wholly bogus “licensed and regulated tokenized cryptocurrency exchange and index fund,” codefendant Blockvest LLC.
Read moreA federal judge refused Wednesday to dismiss a complaint against My Big Coin Buy, which the Commodity Futures Trading Commission claims is selling a fraudulent virtual currency that “is not a ‘commodity.’”
Read moreBritish lawmakers have backed calls for greater regulation of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin in order to bring an element of control to a market that more resembles the “Wild West.”
Read moreThe SEC has suspended the trading in securities of Bitcoin Tracker One (CXBTF) and Ether Tracker One (CETHF), until 11:59 p.m., EDT, on Sept. 20.
Read moreThai authorities this week are expected to step up their investigation of a financial scam involving the alleged theft of about $25 million worth of bitcoins from a Finnish investor who police say was bilked with promises of high returns from investments in a casino in Macau and in another cryptocurrency.
Read moreTurkey and the United States exchanged new threats of sanctions Friday, keeping alive a diplomatic and financial crisis that is threatening the economic stability of the NATO country.
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