Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The husband-wife duo accused in the infamous $3.6 billion Bitcoin (BTC) money laundering case had quite a contrasting valentine. A federal judge upheld the decision of a suspended release for wife Heather Morgan while husband Ilya Lichtenstein has be...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
As Bitcoinist reported earlier today, crypto lending platform BlockFi will pay $100 million in fines per an agreement reached with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). According to the regulator, BlockFi was offering financial products...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
American subscription streaming service and production company, Netflix Inc has it is going to release a documentary about the 2016 Bitfinex hack - a financial crime that can earn the tag as one of the biggest financial thefts in history.
In the d...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
BlockFi may be forced to dig deep into its coffers and pay fines of up to $100 million.
According to credible grapevines, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is looking to slap the crypto lending platform $50 million for providing unregistere...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Netflix has ordered a documentary series about the couple who allegedly laundered billions of dollars from the 2016 Bitfinex hack. Aspiring rapper Heather Morgan and her husband, Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, were arrested in New Y...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Streaming and production giant Netflix will soon produce a documentary series on the infamous Bitfinex hack — one of the biggest financial crimes from 2016 stealing 119,756 Bitcoin (BTC) — worth $72 million at the time. The Netflix documentary will b...
Cryptocoins Exchanges / Binance - 2 years ago
Srikrishna Ramesh, aka Sriki, revealed that he had hacked @Bitfinex twice. He said he made a profit of 20008 #Bitcoin???? but spent all this money on his luxurious lifestyle. #bitfinexhack https://preview.redd.it/ij5jpe19o7h81.jpg?width=760&am...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
Why were some BIPs marked as Rejected before expiry deadline defined in BIP-2? - Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Bitcoin Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for Bitcoin crypto-cu...
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...