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” might ...

The millions will be distributed among the select number of victims, but thousands more were impacted by the $2.4 billion fraudulent scheme. A group of crypto fraud victims of the BitConnect ...

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 ...

Over the past few days, I’ve been revisiting the story of the massive 2016-2018 crypto scam BitConnect for an upcoming project. One of my surprising takeaways is that, though BitConnect was a shady ...

One of the directors involved in the BitConnect cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme has pleaded guilty to his role in the conspiracy. This week, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said that Los Angeles ...

Based in Britain, BitConnect markets itself as an “open source, all-in-one Bitcoin and crypto-community platform designed to provide multiple investment opportunities,” with a present market ...

Now defunct, Bitconnect operated as a platform that advertised significant profits in tandem with lending activities around Bitcoin and the Bitconnect coin, BCC. A number of people advocated for the ...

This week, we dig into the rise of BitConnect, the strange kidnapping case that ultimately helped unravel the scheme and an important Texas Securities Commission cease and desist order. Listen or ...