UK man looks to buy landfill site amid search for $784m lost Bitcoin
James Howells claims to have lost a hard drive with 8,000 BTC at a landfill site in 2013. The man now wants to buy the landfill site as the search…
FBI arrests Alabama man in connection with fake SEC Bitcoin ETF post
Eric Council Jr. has been charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft and access device fraud In January, the SEC’s X account was hacked with a post claiming that…
UK man sues council after it denied requests to dig for lost Bitcoin hard drive in landfill
James Howell has been trying to get his lost hard drive back for 10 years Howell mined 8,000 Bitcoin on his laptop after learning about Bitcoin in 2009 The council…
Man pleads guilty in UK’s first illegal crypto ATM conviction
Olumide Osunkoya pleaded guilty to FCA charges of illegal offer and use of cryptocurrency automated teller machines (ATMs). The 45-year old Osunkuya will be sentenced at a later date. Olumide…
New York man to pay $36 million for forex and crypto fraud
A US federal court ordered William Koo Ichioka to pay $31 million in restitution and $5 million in monetary penalty The New York resident was charged and ordered to pay…
CFTC fines Utah man over $2.5M for leveraged Bitcoin fraud
CFTC announced Jacob Orvidas had conducted a leveraged Bitcoin fraud between October 2017 and July 2020. Orvidas was also charged for failing to register as a commodity pool operator. The…