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Bitcoin Daily: QuadrigaCX Co-Founder Made Fake Accounts; Swede Faces Extradition In Scam
Bitcoin // June 21, 2019

A Swedish man has been charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering in connection with a bitcoin scam that defrauded more than 3,500 victims of over $11 million — and faces extradition to the U.S. Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson and his company, Eastern Metal...

Bitcoin Daily: Ripple’s Chris Larsen Gifts $25M In Crypto; BMW, GM To Share Autonomous Car...
Bitcoin // April 09, 2019

The co-founder of Ripple, Chris Larsen, along with his wife and Rippleworks, donated $25 million in digital currency to a California university, Coindesk reported. San Francisco State University called the donation the “largest gift ever made in a digital asset to a university in the...

Canada Wants To Govern Crypto Exchanges In Wake Of Quadriga Scandal
Regulation // March 14, 2019

Canada wants to redo securities regulations to include cryptocurrency trading operations like Quadriga, which lost the ability to access $195 million of investor holdings after the death of Gerald Cotten, its founder. Bloomberg reported that Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) is looking for comment on a...

Late Quadriga Founder Once Said Firm Kept Access Keys On Paper
Cryptocurrency // February 15, 2019

Gerry Cotten, the Quadriga cryptocurrency exchange founder who died in India in December and might have held the only access key to $143 million in crypto, said in a 2014 podcast that he stored Bitcoin for clients using paper, according to a report by Bloomberg. During...

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Bitcoin Daily: QuadrigaCX Co-Founder Made Fake Accounts; Swede Faces Extradition In Scam

June 21, 2019
A Swedish man has been charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering in connection with a bitcoin scam that defrauded more than 3,500 victims of over $11 million — and faces extradition to the U.S. Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson and his company, Eastern Metal Securities (EMS), have been charged in the scheme, which used […]

Bitcoin Daily: Ripple’s Chris Larsen Gifts $25M In Crypto; BMW, GM To Share Autonomous Car...

April 09, 2019
The co-founder of Ripple, Chris Larsen, along with his wife and Rippleworks, donated $25 million in digital currency to a California university, Coindesk reported. San Francisco State University called the...

Canada Wants To Govern Crypto Exchanges In Wake Of Quadriga Scandal

March 14, 2019
Canada wants to redo securities regulations to include cryptocurrency trading operations like Quadriga, which lost the ability to access $195 million of investor holdings after the death of Gerald Cotten,...

Late Quadriga Founder Once Said Firm Kept Access Keys On Paper

February 15, 2019
Gerry Cotten, the Quadriga cryptocurrency exchange founder who died in India in December and might have held the only access key to $143 million in crypto, said in a 2014 podcast...