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Re:Coinbase Halts Operations in Japan by yieldcrv on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:05AM (#34437514)
> https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/founder-and-majority-owner-cr...

Oh no not Bitzlato! /s

I can't believe you fell for that, DOJ is the only grifter here. They actually did the FUD pre-announcement and for an exchange nobody ever heard of.

Re:Coinbase Halts Operations in Japan by colesantiago on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:09AM (#34437539)
Did you already forget about FTX?

Don't you think that this holds as a warning for other much bigger exchanges?

Re:Coinbase Halts Operations in Japan by yieldcrv on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:22AM (#34437604)
No I don’t and what does todays announcement have to do with FTX? Aside from showing that the US government is proactive at investigating irrelevant exchanges while failing to protect anybody from mismanaged and systemically important exchanges.
Re:Coinbase Halts Operations in Japan by mrguyorama on Thursday January 19, 2023 @05:07PM (#34446346)
Always funny how crypto-bros espouse the joys of being free from government regulation while also whining that government regulation didn't protect them from crypto grifters.
Re:Coinbase Halts Operations in Japan by yieldcrv on Friday January 20, 2023 @11:56AM (#34455975)
Is that what you read?

I read that people keep using mismanaged companies that happen to broker crypto assets, and then I read you conflate that with "crypto".

The best analogy to me is seeing a hardhat incident at a construction company, and deciding that "buildings" are a flawed concept, along with everyone that uses them, and perhaps lumber as well. When you should just criticize the construction company.

Re:Coinbase Halts Operations in Japan by Scoundreller on Thursday January 19, 2023 @02:54AM (#34437802)
> Moreover, Legkodymov – who himself administered Bitzlato from Miami in 2022 and 2023 – received reports reflecting substantial traffic to Bitzlato’s website from U.S.-based Internet Protocol addresses, including over 250 million such visits in July 2022.

I don’t believe the DoJ here either. That’s like every other American visiting that website that month. Or am I to believe a small subset visited hundreds of times per month? On a site that isn’t really about trading but more about actually moving money around?

Re:Coinbase Halts Operations in Japan by gggggg5 on Thursday January 19, 2023 @08:17AM (#34439939)
DDoS attack reflected in a monthly Cloudflare email report?