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WebMoney got raided in the Ukraine yesterday. Full on label of "criminal enterprise" by the tax authority. USD $60 million were seized from day to day operations. The UA subsidiary was operating as a London registered company. All services suspended at the moment in the country, no withdrawals, no transfers. Money laundering, tax evasion, income by criminal proceeds, blah blah bullshitz, etc etc

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http://forbes.ua/business/1353859-v-chem-nalogoviki-obvinyayut-webmoney
http://dt.ua/ECONOMICS/platizhni-op...-ukrayini-chastkovo-paralizovani-123515_.html
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Fraudsters are not beyond the reach of the SEC just because they use Bitcoin or another virtual currency to mislead investors and violate the federal securities laws, said Andrew M. Calamari, director of the SECs New York regional office, in the same SEC statement. Shavers preyed on investors in an online forum by claiming his investments carried no risk and huge profits for them while his true intentions were rooted in nothing more than personal greed.

Texas man raised over $4.5M in Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, feds allege
 
I like how the SEC issued and alter to "inform" investors what a ponzi scheme looks like. Apparently Social Security isn't a ponzi scheme and it's legal.


"Shavers transferred $147,102 from his personal account at the online Bitcoin currency exchange to accounts he controlled at an online payment processor as well as his personal checking account. He used this money to pay his rent, utilities, and car-related expenses as well as for food and retail purchases and gambling."

Why on gods green earth would you move ponzi-schemed money back to your own personal US-BASED checking account? He did use the money for gambling. I say we invite him to GL RJ.
 
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Late last week, the New York Department of Financial Services, the state’s banking regulator, sent 22 subpoenas to Bitcoin-related companies, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The full list includes BitInstant, BitPay, Coinbase, CoinLab, Coinsetter, and Dwolla, as well as investors Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, and Winklevoss Capital Management (which claims to own one percent of all bitcoins in circulation). Butterfly Labs, a bitcoin miner manufacturer that Ars profiled earlier this year, also received a subpoena. Most of the companies listed did not immediately respond to our request for comment.

http://www.dfs.ny.gov/about/press2013/memo1308121.pdf
 
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Late last week, the New York Department of Financial Services, the states banking regulator, sent 22 subpoenas to Bitcoin-related companies, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The full list includes BitInstant, BitPay, Coinbase, CoinLab, Coinsetter, and Dwolla, as well as investors Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, and Winklevoss Capital Management (which claims to own one percent of all bitcoins in circulation). Butterfly Labs, a bitcoin miner manufacturer that Ars profiled earlier this year, also received a subpoena. Most of the companies listed did not immediately respond to our request for comment.

http://www.dfs.ny.gov/about/press2013/memo1308121.pdf
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Looks like they might finally go ahead and try to regulate the market. Interesting twist.

Surprised that the price inched back up to $100 after the $60 low last month.
 
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