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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reportedly after the owner of a crypto scheme, which misled over a thousand of its investors and clients. It seeks $572 million in financial penalties and restitution.$270M Worth Of BTC Stolen From More Than A Thousand CustomersАs per a recent report, the alleged Bitcoin trading pyramid Control-Finance has reportedly defrauded more than a thousand clients of the firm “since at least May 1, 2017”. Its owner Benjamin Reynolds is included in the...

The US Department of Justice has alleged that Joseph Sullivan, the former Chief Security Officer of Uber, has covered up a 2016 hack on the company that compromised data of millions of users and drivers. According to the DOJ, Sullivan paid the hackers $100,000 in Bitcoin.Uber Former CSO Covers Up A Hack?The announcement from the DOJ informed about a recently filed complaint against Sullivan, who served as Uber’s CSO from April 2015 to November 2017. It charged him with “obstruction of justice...

The cryptocurrency market has recovered from some of the losses it registered in the past few days. Bitcoin is up by 1%, while some altcoins are marking impressive double and even triple-digit gains with OMG Network leading the pack.Altcoins With Massive MovesThe altcoin market became accustomed to significant fluctuations, and the past 24 hours don’t disappoint. One alt stands above all – OMG Network. OMG has exploded in value in the past few weeks and especially since yesterday, when the...

Hackers pulled off a successful ransomware attack on COVID-19 researchers from the University of California in San Francisco and received 116 bitcoins.Now, recently surfaced transcripts reveal how the entire operation played out.Phase One: The HackAlthough the name of the group was initially a mystery, the Bloomberg report said that the organization had a history of targeting health-care entities. Later on, a group dubbed Netwalker claimed credit for executing the ransomware attack on the...

The global crypto market continues to slide today as another $11 billion pours out.This exodus of investment has now kicked Bitcoin outside of the rising channel that it’s been tracking inside of (mostly) for the past 22 days. What was acting as reliable support has now flipped into a strong resistance level and could prevent the leading cryptocurrency from retracing back to $12,000 in the short-term.Could this be the start of a bearish decline towards the unfilled CME gap down at...

As the DeFi and yield farming craze continues to entertain the cryptocurrency industry, the price of yEarn. Finance’s native token YFI has gone parabolic, surpassing Bitcoin’s by almost $1,000. This makes YFI the most expensive crypto asset in the market.1 YFI = 1.15 BTCAccording to data on Binance, the DeFi token is trading at $12,770 at the time of writing, while Bitcoin’s dollar value is currently around $11,790. Earlier today, YFI traded at an All-Time High (ATH) of $13,444 before...

Google trends data reveals that the number of “buy crypto” searches has exploded worldwide in the past few weeks to a two-year high.Simultaneously, the “buy Bitcoin” searches, which jumped prior to the 2020 halving and decreased immediately after, have increased since late July.Buy Crypto Searches To A Two-Year HighAccording to Google trends, “buy crypto” searches reached an all-time high rather expectedly during the parabolic price increase of late 2017 and early 2018. As the market was...

US authorities have charged with fraud and money laundering five people operating a Bitcoin mining Ponzi scheme. Called AirBit Club, the scam operated since 2015 and duped numerous victims into investing by promising alluring but false returns.How Did AirBit Club Operate?According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Pablo Renato Rodriguez and Gutemberg Dos Santos co-founded AirBit Club in late 2015. Cecilia Millan and Jackie Aguilar joined the project later on as promoters, and Scott...

Bitcoin’s exciting bull run might be over as quickly as it started after prices failed to close above the $12,400 daily resistance yesterday. Any hopes of a parabolic continuation will now have to be put on hold as bulls recover from the sharp decline.In the last 24 hours, the global crypto market capital has lost $13 billion from its peak at $387 billion.It’s still unclear what caused the sudden reversal. However, shortly after BTC prices catapulted to $12,400, the leading crypto broke into...

There’s never a boring day in the cryptocurrency field and things tend to change in the blink of an eye.Just earlier today, the total market capitalization was sitting comfortably at a 14-month high, and it took less than a few minutes for upwards of $10 billion to be wiped off its sheet. This happened as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies took a sudden dive.Bitcoin Dives Below $12,000In two violent red candles, the primary cryptocurrency lost about 3.6% of its value as it plunged to a low of...