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South Korean Exchange CEO Sentenced to 16 Years in Prison
13.11.2019
A South Korean district court has sentenced executives of a local crypto exchange to prison. The CEO of the exchange got a 16-year jail sentence while other executives and their accomplices got between six and 11 years. They duped thousands of investors, promising them up to 200% return within...
Did South Korea Just 'Sentence Blockchain Gaming to Death'?
11.11.2019
South Korean gaming industry representatives say that the government may have doomed blockchain gaming to oblivion – after a regulator banned Infinity Star, a game that makes use of Ethereum ERC 721 Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs).
Late last week, the Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC)...
Shaoxing Court Gives the First-Ever Criminal Sentence Verdict Based on Blockchain Evidences
4.11.2019
As per recent reports, a court in the Chinese city of Shaoxing has announced its verdict of the criminal sentence in a case associated with blockchain deposits. As such, it is the first-ever criminal sentence verdict given in China. In a consultation revealed on Wednesday, the People’s Court...
200,000 People Have Signed Ross Ulbricht’s Clemency Petition
4.10.2019
Ross Ulbricht is forced to spend the rest of his life in prison, and October 1 marked the beginning of his seventh year behind bars. Ulbricht has recently authored a letter explaining that he’s “forgotten what freedom actually feels like” and he’s also realized that he lost...
‘We’re Going to Find You’ – How Undercover Agents Trade Prison Time for Bitcoins
2.9.2019
An Australian national living in Boulder, Colorado was slammed with a one year and a day prison sentence last month for trading bitcoins. An August 23 statement from the Colorado U.S. District Attorney’s Office states that Emilio Testa, 32, was charged with money laundering, and claims Testa...
Man Offering Hacking Services for Bitcoin Gets 20-Month Jail Sentence
16.8.2019
A British man has been handed jail time and ordered to forfeit over £400,000 ($487,000) for offering hacking services and stolen data for crypto
Ross Ulbricht Letter Questions the Wisdom of Imprisoning Non-Violent Offenders
29.6.2019
Forced to spend the rest of his days in a cage, Ross Ulbricht has recounted his situation in a letter, which explains how he’s spent more than 2,096 days in a U.S. federal penitentiary for running a website. Also Read: Bitcoin ‘Inventor’ Craig Wright Claims He Can’t Access...
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Finding the Longest Word In a Sentence
7.2.2019
Finding the longest word in a string of text is a very common algorithmic challenge in the JavaScript world. In this article we examine three ways to solve this challenge, with each method showcasi
The Ultimate Guide to JavaScript Algorithms: Sentence Capitalization
28.1.2019
Sentence Capitalization
Often times, situations arise in which we need to manipulate the letter casing of stings within our applications usually for presentational purposes. JavaScript off