Fraud

Crypto-related crime spiked massively last year, according to the latest report from AML firm CipherTrace. Digital crooks made off with some $1.7 billion worth of crypto assets in 2018. Some $950 million of the ill-gotten riches were…

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The primary goals of various organized crime syndicates is usually nothing more than financial gain. As a consequence, the primary job of various law enforcement agencies is to neutralize the proceeds of crime and send a clear message to…

It's virtually an open secret that Bitcoin price manipulation was rampant last year, and now we're a lot closer to proof. An academic paper published on Wednesday, concluded that “at least half” of Bitcoin’s meteoric rise last year was a…

Yassin Hankir does not pause when he talks. The founder of Savedroid, a German payments startup, doesn't punctuate his sentences with umms, or aahs: he speaks in declaratives, with clarity and purpose. Only once during our 40-minute…

New York celebrated blockchain this week with a plenty of extravagant parties and exuberant promotions, as the business press has been so delighted to report. But beyond the glitz, there were plenty of clever and innovative applications,…

Almost anyone following with knowledge of the financial markets of India is familiar with the fact that Indian banks have a history of being defrauded. Only last month, for instance, it was discovered that Nirav Modi, a businessman engaged…

Another round of scam forks is hitting the market. The latest addition to the growing portfolio of fake coins piggybacking off of established cryptocurrencies is Bitcoin White. A scam fork so obvious it’s hard to believe anyone forked over…

Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, has recently taken to Twitter to warn cryptocurrency investors that cryptos are a “new and hyper-volatile” asset class, dispensing sage advice on not investing more “than you can afford to lose”.…