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OneCoin is a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme [ 1][ 2] conducted by offshore companies OneCoin Ltd, based in Bulgaria and [ 3] registered in Dubai, and OneLife Network Ltd (registered in Belize ), both founded by Ruja Ignatova in concert with Sebastian Greenwood. [ 4] OneCoin is considered a Ponzi scheme due to its organisational structure of ...
Bitcoin (abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is the first decentralized cryptocurrency. Nodes in the peer-to-peer bitcoin network verify transactions through cryptography and record them in a public distributed ledger, called a blockchain, without central oversight.
Amit K. Bhardwaj (17 January 1983 – 15 January 2022) was an Indian businessman who founded Amaze Mining and Blockchain Research Limited which ran GB [Gainbitcoin] Miners among other bitcoin-related businesses and projects, these have been described as various types of Ponzi schemes . In April 2018, Gainbitcoin was found to be one of the ...
The SEC claims Donald Blakstad bilked investors of $3.5 million. One scheme involved a non-existent crypto mining operation.
A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto[ a] is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. [ 2] It has, in a financial point of view, grown to be its own asset class.
Central African Republic. Legal. On 22 April 2022 parliament of the Central African Republic voted for the cryptocurrency law which was promulgated on 27 April officially making Bitcoin a legal tender in the country. [ 23] In April 2023, the CAR agreed to repeal the adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender.
1860s. Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1][ 2] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the "Spitzedersche Privatbank" in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.
A pig butchering scam, a.k.a. "Sha Zhu Pan" or Shazhupan, (Chinese: 杀猪盘), translated as Killing Pig Plate, 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.