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  2. Gemini agrees to $5 million fine, injunction over CFTC ... - AOL

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    The CFTC sued Gemini in 2022 for making false and misleading statements of material facts or omitting such facts to the CFTC in 2017 related to a bitcoin futures contract it sought to launch.

  3. Winklevoss-led Gemini agrees to return over $1 billion to ...

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    For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. ... Gemini leadership decided to end Earn in September 2022 but didn't take steps to do so until mid ...

  4. Crypto exchange Gemini sued for 'misleading statements ... - AOL

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    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission alleged Gemini employees ... Futures Trading Commission alleged Gemini employees misled the agency when the company was evaluating a potential Bitcoin ...

  5. Gemini (company) - Wikipedia

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    Gemini Trust Company, LLC (Gemini) is an American cryptocurrency exchange and custodian bank.It was founded in 2014 by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. [4] [5] [6]In 2023, the company, along with two others, was sued by the New York attorney general Letitia James under allegations that it had "defrauded" investors by exposing them to undue risk.

  6. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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    In August 2012, Trendon T. Shavers (aka "Pirate" and "pirateat40"), the founder and operator of "Bitcoin Savings and Trust" (BTCST), [124] a non-existent company advertised over an internet forum, disappeared from the public scene. Shavers raised at least 700,000 Bitcoin in BTCST investments by running it as a Ponzi scheme. The fact that BTCST ...

  7. 2016 Bitfinex hack - Wikipedia

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    The Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was hacked in August 2016. [1] 119,756 bitcoins, worth about US$72 million at the time, was stolen.[1]In February 2022, the US government recovered and seized a portion of the stolen bitcoin, then worth US$3.6 billion, [2] by decrypting a file owned by Ilya Lichtenstein (born 1989) that contained addresses and private keys associated with the stolen funds. [3]

  8. Miami man among 2 charged in $230 million cryptocurrency ...

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    A Miami man is facing charges after authorities said he teamed up with a California man in a scam to steal and launder over $230 million in cryptocurrency. ... For premium support please call: 800 ...

  9. Cryptocurrency and crime - Wikipedia

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    A pig butchering scam (in Chinese sha zhu pan [114] or shazhupan, [115] (Chinese: ĉ€çŒŞç›˜), translated as killing pig game) [113] is a type of long-term scam and investment fraud in which the victim is gradually lured into making increasing contributions, usually in the form of cryptocurrency, to a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.