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…
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1 Billion ZIL Staked in 24 hours as Zilliqa Launches Staking Program
Blockchain platform Zilliqa has launched a non-custodial staking platform on its main net for users to stake ZIL tokens. This latest development has attracted a lot of enthusiasm from the Zilliqa community. Major Milestone Achieved in 24 hours Zilliqa revealed in a tweet that 1 billion ZIL tokens had been staked within a few hours of launch. Zilliqa also has a governance token ZILs or gZIL that would serve as a form of incentive to stakers. For every 1000 ZIL…
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Worst Performing Coins in the Top 100 – 2020 Edition
Good Year for Most, Rough for Some 2020, so far, has been a sort of balanced year for cryptocurrencies. One might have expected the pandemic would slow things down, especially with the market crash we saw in March, but that hasn’t been the case so far. Overall, the market has done pretty well with constant stability, increasing user base, and growing innovation. But the same isn’t the case for all of the networks out there. While most enjoyed the increased…
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