Investors who say they lost money in an alleged cryptocurrency fraud have had no luck persuading the police there was a crime committed.
The U.S. government is pursuing a civil forfeiture claim on the more than 300,000 units of the tether (USDT) cryptocurrency said to have been stolen earlier this year.
Ripple was threatened three years ago when the prices of XRP and bitcoin shot to historic highs.
The U.S. Department of Justice charged the six individuals with alleged involvement in laundering funds from Mexican drug cartels after an investigation spanning years.
As well as making cryptocurrency transactions, the man is alleged to have bought luxury cars and property to launder funds.
Paying ransomware hackers to decrypt infected computers doesn't always work, and may even be a crime in some countries.
The extortionists demand a payment in bitcoin to avoid the detonation of an explosive device, per a report.
The inept thieves reversed their pickup truck into the store window next door after failing to nab the crypto ATM they wanted.
The case, the website, the circumstances and the source all share parallels with another recent federal murder-for-hire prosecution.
A former contractor for Australian science agency CSIRO was found to have mined around $7,000 in cryptocurrency.
The man was sentenced to three years in prison and 12 strokes of the cane for his part in the robbery and beating of a bitcoin buyer.
Crypto exchange Bithumb has reportedly been seized by police in Seoul on allegations that its chairman engaged in investment fraud.
The U.S. Department of Justice wants an attorney to hand over the massive sum he helped launder for the OneCoin scheme.
The Colorado man mediated disputes on the now-defunct darknet marketplace Alphabay.
A whistleblower from defunct crypto firm Bitsonar has reappeared after going missing for three days, saying law enforcement faked his kidnapping and death.