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Since the duo’s start on YouTube, they’ve brought some of the world’s best memes to our attention and BitConnect Carlos is just one of many from this year. Carlos Matos, an investor for ...
Bitcoin can rest easy. It appears to have not lost Carlos Matos. The walking meme made famous by his unbridled enthusiasm for Bitconnect, a cryptocurrency project strongly resembling a Ponzi scheme ...
In a menacing turn of events yesterday, Bitcoin investment lending platform BitConnect abruptly announced it is shutting down its lending and exchange services. But while this sudden “curveball ...
Numerous users complained on social media they couldn't cash out their BCC tokens on BitConnect's site following the shutdown of its lending platform. Updated Sep 13, 2021, 7:23 a.m. Published ...
A federal grand jury in San Diego indicted the founder of BitConnect for allegedly orchestrating a $2.4 billion global Ponzi scheme, the Justice Department said Friday. Satish Kumbhani ...
The top North American promoter of the BitConnect cryptocurrency investment platform was sentenced to 38 months in prison for running a $2.4 billion Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least 4,500 ...
Bitconnect, the lending and exchange platform that was long suspected by many in the crypto community of being a Ponzi scheme, has announced it’s shutting down. In a release on its website the ...
The cryptocurrency community is slowly but steadily growing more suspicious of BitConnect and its dubious business model. Crypto pioneers, including Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and Litecoin ...
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is -- and certainly appears to have been the case when it comes to BitConnect, a folded cryptocurrency project that has been accused of scamming ...
Correction: No, walking Bitconnect meme Carlos Matos is not calling bitcoin a scam. The tweet under his name appears to come from a parody account. This story has been updated to reflect that fact.