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US man imprisoned after paying bitcoin to eliminate child he molested
A New Jersey resident, John Michael Musbach, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison following his attempt…
Man gathering crypto for monkey torture is among 20 investigated in international action
A BBC investigation into the brutal abuse of monkeys has led to the investigation of at least 20…
ONFO coin CEO found dead in United States
The co-founder of ONFO coin, a referral-based cryptocurrency project, Dr. John Forsyth, was found dead with an apparent…
Philippine police release over 1,000 prisoners forced to perform crypto scams
Police in the Philippines have rescued 1,090 people forced to run online crypto scams in the Philippines. Tis…
CFTC wins a record $3.4B penalty payment in a Bitcoin-related fraud case
This is the largest fraud case involving Bitcoin that CFTC has cracked so far. The case involved the…
CertiK blames zkSync’s MerlinDEX hack on private key management issue
CertiK has attributed the over $1.82 million loss suffered by zkSync-based decentralized exchange, MerlinDEX, to a private key…
Spain ends notorious crypto scam with over $110m lost to hackers
Spain authorities have reportedly arrested a perpetrator of a notorious scam that saw investors loose over $100M in…
BTC-e’s wallet spurred back to life: 10,000 BTC sent by Mt.Gox-linked address
A Bitcoin wallet of the now-defunct BTC-e exchange — an institution involved with 2014’s Mt. Gox hack —…