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Darknet’s Largest Marketplace Still Offline, Fears of Exit Scam Rise

26.8.2020
Empire Market, the darknet's most popular marketplace by site traffic, was suddenly taken offline on August 22

Chinese Police Investigate ‘Exit Scam’ by Iranian Crypto Exchange

18.6.2020
Reports indicate the Iranian-based crypto exchange ‘Bitisis’ is actually a Ponzi scheme that has attempted an exit scam

In Possible Exit Scam, Chinese EOS Wallet Locks Up $52M of Customer Funds

21.4.2020
EOS Ecosystem, a wallet app returns out to be a scam and possibly runs away with $52M user funds

FCoin Blames Poor Auditing for Shutdown, but Others Suspect Exit Scam

22.2.2020
Is FCoin another exit scam in the cryptocurrency exchange scene or is its insolvency simply due to ineptitude on the part of the company?

Bitcoin Cash Captured More Than 10% of Darknet Sales Last Month

12.2.2020
2019 was an interesting year for darknet markets (DNMs) and a number of marketplaces closed for a variety of reasons. Despite the closures, crypto payments on DNMs doubled for the first time in five years. Moreover, statistics from the blockchain analytics provider 1000x Group show digital...

Darknet Users Discuss the Connection Between DDoS Attacks and Exit Scams

1.2.2020
During the last few weeks, a number of darknet markets (DNMs) like Dread and Empire have been attacked relentlessly with heavy DDoS attacks. Meanwhile, reports disclose that Apollon is allegedly pulling an exit scam in the same fashion as Nightmare Market did last year. Darknetstats.com details...

Russia’s Hydra Darknet Marketplace Plans $146M Token Sale

14.12.2019
According to regional reports, the Russian darknet market Hydra is planning an initial coin offering (ICO) in order to expand the marketplace internationally. The sale is set to start on December 16 and Hydra administrators hope to raise $146 million from the token sale. Also read: Regulatory...

Quadrigacx Founder Dead or Alive? Request for Exhumation and Autopsy Filed

14.12.2019
It has been a year since the founder of now-defunct crypto exchange Quadrigacx supposedly died in India. However, some 76,000 victims are still out of millions of dollars. A court-appointed lawyer representing them has now requested an exhumation and post-mortem autopsy in Canada of the dead body...

Exit Scam Fears as Major Darknet Site ICO Promises 700% Growth in 6 Months

13.12.2019
Russia’s biggest darknet community, Hydra, has released a white paper as it prepares to issue an initial coin offering (ICO) that it says will see token growth skyrocket by 700% by June next year. Hydra’s white paper takes the form of an investment memorandum (link here, although the memo can only...

PlusToken Effect: Alleged Asian Exit Scam to Blame for Market Decline?

3.12.2019
This exit scam purportedly cost investors $3 billion, and now could be dropping the crypto price market

The Darknet Just Had One of Its Wildest Months Yet

3.12.2019
Darknet marketplaces exist on a constant knife edge, never more than an exit scam, LE bust, or DDoS away from going down. Even by their usual frenetic standards, though, November was quite a month for DNMs, with high drama and intrigue aplenty. Despite a number of marketplaces disappearing off...

Berlusconi Admins Disappear — Darknet Users Rush to Find Alternatives

14.10.2019
The darknet marketplace Berlusconi Market has been reportedly down for more than two weeks, according to users who patronize the hidden website. The outage has led many to believe the market administrators exit scammed with all the funds. While others speculate that government agents have...

A Nigerian Wallet Suspected in USD 1M Exit Scam + 8 More Crypto News

27.9.2019
Crypto Briefs is your daily bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – keeping you up-to-date with under the radar crypto news from around the world. Cryptocurrency wallet news Satowallet, a Nigerian crypto wallet, allegedly pulled off an exit scam, disappearing with users’...

Users of Nigeria-Based Crypto Wallet Lose $1M in Alleged Exit Scam

27.9.2019
Users of Nigeria-based Satowallet have lost $1 million due to an alleged exit scam

Messaging App Kik’s Legal Battle Shines Light on Past ICO Scams

24.9.2019
Popular messaging app Kik is shutting down due to a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit regarding ICO activity for the company’s cryptocurrency, kin. Ted Livingston, Founder and CEO of Kik and Kin, denies the allegations and maintains that the SEC’s case is based...