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Re:Texas man charged with running $60M Bitcoin Ponzi scheme by downandout on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @02:02AM (#6094719)
The sad part is that for a long time the 7% per week he promised was actually possible with arbitrage if you knew what you were doing (though probably not at the scale he was operating at). There are a few more lawsuits/prosecutions likely in the pipeline - Bitinstant for one.
Re:Texas man charged with running $60M Bitcoin Ponzi scheme by awt on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @03:19AM (#6094873)
Why Bitinstant?
Re:Texas man charged with running $60M Bitcoin Ponzi scheme by downandout on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @07:00AM (#6095410)
They turned into a quasi-Ponzi scheme earlier this year. Until they shut down, they delaying orders, in some cases by months, and using money from new orders to pay for the old pending orders. Who knows where the money from the old pending orders went.
Re:Texas man charged with running $60M Bitcoin Ponzi scheme by zby on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @04:47AM (#6095086)
or MtGox