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…
XRP Transactions
Ripple Reacts to Research Revealing Empty XRP Transactions
A research paper was published on the website of Cornell University claiming that just 2 percent of all XRP transactions resulted in value transfers. The researchers noted that the majority of transactions on the XRP Ledger had zero value (that is, empty), which is a cryptocurrency version of spam. A software engineer and PhD student at Imperial College London was in charge of the published research which revealed the predominant spam on EOS and Tezos network traffic. Ripple responded to the research paper but…
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