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May 31, 2021by Mark Murdock

31. május 2021. / Unchained Daily / Laura Shin

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Daily Bits ✍️✍️✍️

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Mit mémelsz?

The Bitcoin car raced in the Indy 500 yesterday, placing 8th after leading for 32 laps.

In other memes:

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Mi az a Poppin?

The SEC is filing charges against five individuals over their involvement with Bitconnect.

Szerint A SEC panasza, BitConnect raised $2 billion in unregistered securities from 2017 and 2018 through the use of a network of promoters. Lara Shalov Mehraban, the associate regional director of the SEC’s New York office, said in a sajtóközlemény, “these defendants unlawfully sold unregistered digital asset securities by actively promoting the Bitconnect lending program to retail investors.” She added, “We will seek to hold accountable those who illegally profit by capitalizing on the public’s interest in digital assets.”

Bitconnect (BCC) was, to put it bluntly, a Ponzi rendszer. BCC was a cryptocurrency built on top of Bitcoin with a simple premise: trade your Bitcoin for BCC, lock in the instantaneous value of BCC for a set period of time, and earn massive amounts of interest — calculated daily. On top of the to-good-to-be-true promise of daily compounding, Bitconnect also used a system of invites and referrals, where users could invite friends to join the platform in exchange for bonuses.

Here is an example of a Bitconnect shill from back in the day: 

Bitconnect crashed in 2018 thanks to cease and desist orders from Texas and North Carolina, with its token collapsing from over $470 to below $1. 

While it may seem that Bitconnect is getting its due justice, Gabriel Shapiro, a partner at BSV Law, was skeptical, tweeting: 

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Ajánlott olvasmányok

• Michael Casey on why it might be time to regroup:  

• Taylor Monahan on why EIP-1559 does not deliver: 

• The Bitcoin Reddit, /r/bitcoin, just hit 3 million subscribers. If you have nothing going on this Memorial Day weekend, I would recommend perusing the many, many threads available here: 

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On The Pod…

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