• Another QuadrigaCX setback
    QuadrigaCX victims' hopes of retrieving funds from Crypto Capital proved ephemeral (Photo: QuadrigaCX/Wayback Machine)
    Cryptocurrencies

    Another setback for QuadrigaCX exchange victims

    Defrauded account holders turn to corporate investigations firm Kroll Inc after lawyers find no evidence linking shady payments processor Crypto Capital to the looted cryptocurrency exchange

    September 8, 2020 /

    The long-running investigation into the loss of $190 million following the collapse of the doomed Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX has run into another brick wall.

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  • QuadrigaCX user data to taxman
    Gerald Cotten had looted QuadrigaCX long before his alleged death locked its vaults forever (Photo: Pixabay)
    Cryptocurrencies,  People

    Insult to injury: QuadrigaCX user data will be handed over to taxman

    The looted cryptocurrency exchange’s bankruptcy trustee bankruptcy trustee, Ernst & Young,

    March 27, 2020 /

    The QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency exchange’s bankruptcy trustee, Ernst & Young, announced that it intended to comply with the Canadian tax authority’s request for customer records. Specifically, it is planning to share a database containing the “account balances and transaction data of affected users.”

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  • marijuana buds plus bitcoin
    How much do you have to smoke to lose the keys to $60 million in bitcoin? (Photo: Pixabay/Pixabay)
    Bitcoin,  Europe

    Irish drug dealer claims $60 million in Bitcoin thrown away while in jail

    Which is very convenient as police know the public addresses of the wallets where they’re stored, and have formally seized the ill-gotten gains

    February 23, 2020 /

    Irish police have come to believe that jailed pot dealer Clifton Collins lost key codes to nearly $60 million worth of bitcoins when his landlord threw out his belongings.

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  • "And they're coming to take me away ha-haaa. They're coming to take me away ho-ho hee-hee ha-haaa." (via Pixabay)
    "And they're coming to take me away ha-haaa. They're coming to take me away ho-ho hee-hee ha-haaa." (via Pixabay)
    Innovators

    Ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne sells stock, doubles down on crypto

    In a farewell letter to his former co-workers, Byrne gives crypto wild man John McAfee a run for his money in the conspiracy theorist championship

    September 20, 2019 /

    Overstock.com’s founder Patrick Byrne ended his connection with the online retailer he built into a giant in much the same way as he ended his tenure as its CEO a month ago: bizarrely.

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