Category: Ponzi Scheme

This column is on record as a purist regarding the term “ponzi scheme.” The click-hungry media has come to use it to describe any of…

View More Fortress Pulled a Fast One on the Ponzi Police

New York-based asset management firm VanEck has filed a new application with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its spot market Bitcoin ETF.  A…

View More VanEck Files Fresh Spot Bitcoin ETF Application

Note: The newsletter will pause until Tuesday due to the Fourth of July holiday. Lanhee Chen has a few confessions to make. The Republican candidate…

View More Lanhee Chen comes clean on Trump, abortion

Placeholder while article actions load In London’s Wembley Arena, there were stage lights flashing, pyrotechnics bursting and even flames going off to a cacophony of…

View More FBI adds OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova to list of most-wanted fugitives

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a US government agency, has filed a civil enforcement action against now-defunct South African Bitcoin company Mirror Trading International…

View More SA crypto firm faces R27.8bn lawsuit in US

A legendary crypto hedge fund is riding out this year’s macro madness by moving the majority of its assets into bitcoin. “While we remain long-term…

View More $5 Billion Fund Using Bitcoin to Hedge ‘Biggest Ever Ponzi’

News broke early this week that a British Virgin Islands court had ordered Singapore-based digital currency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) into liquidation. The move…

View More Three Arrows Capital liquidated—was it a Ponzi scheme?

They’re back. As the crypto bear market worsens, the haters are coming out of the woodwork again to sneer at an industry they’ve long insisted…

View More Laminate This: What to Say to Crypto Haters