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September 25, 2018

HYDROMINER NEXT CRYPTOMINER TO STOP PAYOUTS

The Austrian cryptoming company Hydrominer announced Sunday evening in a mailing to its customers that until further notice payments of coins and tokens will be..

September 14, 2018

21COINWORLD – ANOTHER DUBAI-CONNECTED CRYPTO-MLM SCHEME

Crypto-MLM systems have been recognized in 2017 in the hype around cryptocurrency and blockchain as a means of large-scale rip-off possibility. The German and Austrian..

August 21, 2018

COINTED: SO WHERE IS THE MINING EQUIPMENT WORTH 11,5m EURO

The Austrian company COINTED has operated ATMs, an exchange for cryptocurrencies and crypto mining. Mining equipment was purchased from various companies around Cointed for 11.5..

August 10, 2018

THE ICO-HYPE AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MEDIA AND ADVISORS

The rapid growth of cryptocurrencies has led to an ICO industry with a turnover of up to $50 billion from 2017. This was done in..

July 6, 2018

THE RISE OF THE BITCLUB NETWORK AND SOME CONSIDERATIONS

We cannot write about crowd-funded crypto-mining schemes without mentioning the perhaps biggest one on a global scale – the BitClub Network! Launched 2014, the crypto-scheme..

June 21, 2018

PROHIBITED CRYPTO-MINING SCHEME VIA STOPPED PAYOUTS TO INVESTORS EVEN THOUGH THE AUTHORITY HAS NOT FROZEN FUNDS

Following many inquiries by clients of INVIA GmbH the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) would like to had to clarify that the prohibiting of INVIA’s..

June 16, 2018

TWO CHARGE SHEETS FILED IN THE $300 MILLION INDIAN CRYPTO-MLM SCAM

Police and authorities in India make pace with their investigations in the US$300 million crypto-MLM scam around Amit BHARDWAJ and his partners. FinTelegram has been..

May 30, 2018

CRYPTO-MINING SCHEME ‘WACHSENDE WERTE’ CLOSED ITS OFFER SITE

In the light of the recent regulatory decision to qualify crypto-mining schemes as collective investment untertakings under the EU framework, it’s pretty obvious that crypto-investment..

Crypto-Mining

May 30, 2018

BREAKING NEWS: CRYPTO-MINING SCHEMES ARE REGULATED INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES

Crypto-Mining schemes are Alternative Investment Funds AIF) in the definition of the alternative investment fund managers (AIFM) directive. That’s definitely game-changing regulatory news for crypto-mining..

Crypto-Mining

May 16, 2018

ANALYSIS: ARE CRYPTO-MINING UNTERTAKINGS TO BE QUALIFIED AS ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT FUNDS (AIF)

While it seems clear to many legal experts that native Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) or Monero do not qualify as Security Tokens, a lot of..

April 13, 2018

WACHSENDE WERTE (GROWING VALUE) – THE SCHEME’S PROFIT-RISK DISTRIBUTION

As already explained in part I of our analysis on the Wachsende Werte crypto-investment scheme we would like to analyze and explain it in depths..

Crypto-Mining

April 10, 2018

WACHSENDE WERTE (GROWING VALUE) – ANATOMY OF A CRYPTO-MINING SCHEME

This is the first of a series of investigative article about Crypto-Mining schemes in general and Wachsende Werte as a case in point in particular...

The Unraveling of Rabidi and the Rise of the SoftSwiss Network: Our Updated Forensic Report

A few months ago, FinTelegram released a first forensic report on the bankruptcy of Rabidi N.V., a Curacao-registered online casino operator with hundreds of millions in revenues — and no traceable assets by the time of its collapse in May 2024. That report already raised serious questions about the opaque structures behind Rabidi’s operations and its successor, Liernin Enterprises Ltd.

DeFi Decoded: Smart Contracts – The Code Behind the DeFi Revolution

Smart contracts are the invisible architects of decentralized finance. These self-executing lines of code run everything from token swaps to lending platforms without middlemen. But while they offer autonomy, they also introduce new risks—bugs, exploits, and irreversible mistakes. In this fourth installment of our FinTelegram DeFi Series, we explain what smart contracts are.

CFTC

Despite New Crypto Friendlyness: No Settlement Between U.S. CFTC And KuCoin?

A planned settlement between the U.S.CFTC and crypto exchange KuCoin is now in limbo due to a reported policy shift within the CFTC. This change is attributed to the Trump administration’s new approach, which deprioritizes enforcement actions against crypto companies. As a result, a CFTC attorney said that it is "unlikely that such authorization will be granted in the near term" regarding the settlement approval.

SEC’s New Era: Paul Atkins Sworn In—Will Crypto Finally Get the Regulatory Clarity It Deserves?

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has entered a new chapter with the swearing-in of Paul S. Atkins as its 34th Chairman, a move widely anticipated to mark a dramatic pivot in how the agency approaches crypto and DeFi regulation. For years, the financial industry—especially the burgeoning digital asset sector—has bristled under the SEC’s “Regulation by Enforcement” strategy.

Crypto Mogul Changpeng Zhao – Fallen, Rich, and Rising Again?

As spring 2025 blooms and Easter’s themes of rebirth fill the air, Changpeng Zhao emerges as one of the most controversial figures of startup mythology: a man who fell spectacularly, paid a price—then rose again, wealthier and louder than ever. Once the almighty architect of Binance, CZ now resides in Dubai with a net worth that Forbes estimates at $63 billion.