A high-profile arrest in the world of Bitcoin: BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem, 24, has been arrested and charged with money laundering; the same goes for alleged co-conspirator and “underground Bitcoin exchanger” Robert Faiella (aka BTCKing). Authorities say the two schemed to sell more than $1 million of Bitcoin to users…
NEW YORK – US authorities Monday filed criminal charges against two operators of a Bitcoin exchange which enabled its users to buy drugs and other illicit goods on the Silk Road underground website. Federal prosecutors said they unsealed a criminal complaint against Robert Faiella and Charlie Shrem, who ran a company allowing people to use […]
Mr. Shrem’s Twitter photo. In a scene out of a Scorsese film yet to come, self-described “Bitcoin evangelist” Charlie Shrem was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport on charges that he schemed to sell more than $1 million in Bitcoins to users of the Silk Road yesterday. Put this arrest right above Dogecoin and Coinye West […]
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