Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) arrested two individuals that are accused of an “alleged conspiracy to launder” 94,636 bitcoins stolen from Bitfinex in 2016. Interestingly, both of the suspects are known individ...
by COINS NEWS - 2 years ago
From the article found here: https://slate.com/technology/2022/02/bitcoin-couple-scheme-rap-heather-morgan-ilya-lichtenstein.html What the Justice Department’s report refers to as “anonymity-enhanced virtual currency” is more commonly known in cryp...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 2 years ago
Today the price of UNUS SED LEO (LEO) token jumped 43% to reach its record high.
At the time of writing it was trading at $7.13.
It has hit a daily high of $8.04 and a daily low of $4.96 and has a trading volume of $56,936,717, a market cap of $6,8...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Unus Sed Leo (LEO) surged by almost 70% on Feb. 9 to reach its record highs as traders assessed the potential of an incoming supply crunch in its market.The token was issued in 2016 to refinance crypto exchange Bitfinex after it lost about $70 millio...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
On Feb. 1, there were movements of around $2.5 billion from the 2016 Bitfinex hack wallets. After reviewing the transactions, Cointelegraph reported that around 90,000 Bitcoin (BTC), worth $3.6 billion, consolidated into one wallet address. More than...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 2 years ago
The crypto market as a whole was uneventful with a few exceptions, which we’ll note here. Most of the top 100 coins by market cap moved in the range of +/-1 to 3% of their values yesterday.
US indices rallied yesterday amid a raft of strong corpo...
Cryptocoins News / NewsBTC - 2 years ago
The recovery of the stolen BTC from the 2016 Bitfinex hack was the news of the day. That story’s protagonists, though, they’re legends in the making. You can already tell that Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan will live forever in meme form. The...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
In an investigation that ran for over five years, the United States law enforcement has arrested a Manhattan-based couple identified as Lichtenstein and Morgan. They were suspected to be a part of the masterminds behind the 2016 Bitfinex exchange ha...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
New York resident Heather Morgan, 31, claims to be many things: “a serial entrepreneur, prolific writer, irreverent comedic rapper, and investor in B2B software companies with high growth potential.”But her LinkedIn bio doesn’t mention anything about...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
New York resident Heather Morgan claims to be many things: “a serial entrepreneur, prolific writer, irreverent comedic rapper, and investor in B2B software companies with high growth potential.”But her LinkedIn bio doesn’t mention anything about her...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Bitcoin on-chain data shows the recent movement of the coins involved in the 2016 Bitfinex hack have showed up as the largest ever spike in the 5+ years old supply revival metric.
Movement Of 2016 Bitfinex Hack Coins Revived The Largest 5+ Years Old...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the seizure of 94,636 bitcoins directly linked to the 2016 hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. This is the DOJ’s “largest cryptocurrency seizure to date.” In ad...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Authorities in the United States have made arrests and announced the seizure of $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency more than five years after hackers stole 119,756 Bitcoin (BTC) from the Bitfinex exchange.In a Tuesday announcement, the U.S. Department of...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
$3.6 billion or 94,643.29 bitcoin stemming from the 2016 Bitfinex hack was moved and consolidated into a single wallet following 23 transfers. At the time of writing, the $3.6 billion in bitcoin remains idle and the trading platform Bitfinex says it...
Cryptocoins News / NewsBTC - 2 years ago
The Bitfinex hack had been one of the most popular hacks when it occurred. At that point, bitcoin was still in its very early stages and was still reeling from the Mt Gox shutdown even years later. When the hack occurred, the attackers had made off w...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The receiving wallet address now holds more than 90,000 Bitcoin worth about $3.6 billion. A chunk of the inactive Bitcoins (BTC) stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex exchange...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has asked its Ontario users to withdraw their funds since they will no longer have access to any services offered by Bitfinex in March.
Bitfinex Stops Providing Services to Ontario Customers
Crypto ex...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Ontario Securities Commission has been responsible for cracking down on crypto exchanges operating in the region, including Binance, OKEx, Bybit, KuCoin and Polo Digital Assets....