Wybo Wiersma – a 40-year-old Oxford University graduate – has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison after scamming over $2 million in crypto from unsuspecting victims. Following his arrest in 2019, the Dutchman was extradited from the Netherlands back to the United Kingdom (UK) in 2021. Following a five-year investigation by the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU), he pled guilty on January 26 to the Oxford Crown Court. A Five-Year Investigation As reported by…
Technology Adoption
How Bitcoin Adoption Differs from Most Innovations in History
The fourth industrial revolution has come with consistent growth and adoption of technology in different fields of life. Amidst all this, the most extensive innovation of our century, Bitcoin, also surfaced on the financial markets over ten years ago. Bitcoin is burgeoning. A decade since its inception, the average daily trading of cryptocurrencies has exceeded 1% of trading in Foreign exchange markets. It’s currently the most significant market globally by trading volume. Bitcoin transactions alone have grown by almost 60%…
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