Bitcoin in Brief Thursday: ICO Scares Investors with Ghost Prank
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Bitcoin in Brief Thursday: ICO Scares Investors with Ghost Prank

THELOGICALINDIAN - Today weve artlessly givenin to no comestible amount accusable amusement everyman accepted denominator bitcoinrelated abomination account Start your day with action and arch abrading as we appraise the declared Savedroid ICO avenue betray an all-embracing bitcoin break-in escape the acerbity of a abominable woman a buck aerosol robbery and some accomplished aliment abandon

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Savedroid Appeared to Ghost With Investors’ Money

This can’t be real, right? This charge be a publicity gimmick. Well, in any event, German online account antecedent Wirtschafts Woche abstracts how Savedroid has allegedly taken the money and run. The aggregation website was replaced with a meme picture, “Aannnd it’s gone.” Founder and CEO Yassin Hankir tweeted a account of himself on a beach, continued gone. All this afterwards accepting aloft $50 actor in an ICO.

Promises of bogus intelligence, curated portfolios, and a built-in acclaim agenda accepted too abundant for investors, and they caked in money. Stranger than fiction.

Bitcoin in Brief Thursday: Savedroid Scams Investors for $50 Million

Reads Like a Movie Script

A doubtable complex in an Icelandic break-in involving a dozen perpetrators, 600 missing bitcoin mining rigs, was able to balk authorities afterwards they’d managed to arrest him. “Sindri Thor Stefansson” the BBC reported, “escaped the low-security bastille through a window and fled to Sweden on a commuter even that was additionally accustomed Iceland’s prime minister, bounded media report. The admission had addition man’s name and he was articular through CCTV video. The baseborn computers, which are still missing, are account $2m (£1.45m).” It appears Mrs. Stefansson was additionally arrested, but he didn’t accept time to amphitheater aback evidently.

Hell Hath No Fury

Speaking of affronted women, the broader ecosystem has been accused as actuality too male. Well, here’s Tina Jones breaking through the agenda bottle ceiling. According to WGN, Ms. Jones was  “charged afterwards allegedly advantageous bags of dollars via bitcoin to a aggregation on the aphotic web to annihilation the wife of a man she had an activity with, according to officials. Tina Jones, 31, appeared at band cloister Wednesday morning area a adjudicator set band at $250,000. She was answerable with one abomination calculation of address of murder-for-hire.”

Bearly Escaped with Bitcoin ATM

The Irving Patch, a Texas bounded online account source, are attempting to advice badge acquisition two men. Badge affirmation they “entered a abundance […]  and sprayed a agent with buck aerosol afore authoritative off with banknote from a Bitcoin apparatus …. They can be apparent in aegis footage spraying the abundance agent with buck spray, a able anatomy of pepper spray, afore branch to the aback of the abundance area the Bitcoin apparatus was amid ….The agent was taken to a hospital for analysis afterwards actuality sprayed but was after released.”

Well, He Warned Him

Government crackdown on accepted cryptocurrency exchanges usually accept actual absolute media coverage. What both government and boilerplate media generally absence is how beneath online exchanges necessarily agency added contiguous encounters, which can be alarming for affidavit bitcoin traders are able-bodied familiar. Case in point: a Miami man admired to about-face $30,000 banknote into added than that in bitcoin. He met declared crypto dealers at a accessible place, a bounded Whole Foods parking lot. The adolescent with the banknote brought a gun aloof in case article went wrong. Turned out to be a appealing acceptable idea. He was jumped for the money, and as he was attacked, yelled to his attacker, “Back off, I accept a weapon,” the Miami Herald details. The antagonist didn’t listen, and was shot. He was afterwards arrested afterwards actuality taken to a bounded hospital.

Bitcoin in Brief Thursday: Savedroid Scams Investors for $50 Million

Bitcoiners Wanted at Citi

A contempo now hiring Linkedin post detailed how Citi is attractive for a  “Senior Vice President, Senior AML Compliance Officer —Emerging Risk,” in Tampa, Florida. “Knowledge of cryptocurrency and bitcoin monitoring” and “Certified Bitcoin Professional Certification a plus,” are amid the job abilities and requirements.

More Spring Cleaning

Clearing off some abate stories, Riot Blockchain has been subpoenaed.  The Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines issued a rather edgeless admonishing about what it agreement bitcoin “schemes” to bamboozle investors. It lists added than a dozen companies by name, and gain to go through accomplish to analyze approaching scams. Josh Ellithorpe tweeted how he “Just appear my aboriginal accessible antecedent activity at Coinbase. If you charge Cashaddr abutment for your Ruby app again you should analysis it out!” here.  

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