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Title: Trendon Shavers was arrested in his home in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: elux on November 06, 2014, 05:30:14 PM Source is U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara via Associated Press:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/feds-announce-1st-bitcoin-securities-fraud-case-26734204 Looks like a crackdown on crime in Bitcoin is happening. Expect this to be in every newspaper tomorrow. Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: elux on November 06, 2014, 05:32:47 PM Anyone got corroborating sources? The AP bulletin is very light on details.
Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: elux on November 06, 2014, 05:33:10 PM Now also via Reuters: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-2824044/U-S-charges-Texas-man-running-bitcoin-Ponzi-scheme.html
Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: cypherdoc on November 06, 2014, 05:33:56 PM looks like they want to get 2 hits on Bitcoin's rep for the price of 1.
Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: Wilhelm on November 06, 2014, 05:37:37 PM LOL this dude was a scammer on this forum if I'm correct :)
Quote Instead, Shavers allegedly used new bitcoin to repay old investors, add to his account at the now-bankrupt Mt. Gox exchange, and fund expenses such a used BMW M5, casino visits and a $1,000 dinner at Gallagher's Steakhouse in Las Vegas. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-2824044/U-S-charges-Texas-man-running-bitcoin-Ponzi-scheme.html#ixzz3IJLbNVkV Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: Puppet on November 06, 2014, 05:41:41 PM looking forward to the mug shot
Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: FeedbackLoop on November 06, 2014, 05:43:11 PM Interesting precedent.
A lot of other people have been running smaller scale Ponzis since then and some have well known identities as well (such as a couple of guys in BTCJam). Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: elux on November 06, 2014, 05:45:18 PM And here come WSJ, Bloomberg:
http://online.wsj.com/articles/texas-man-charged-with-running-bitcoin-ponzi-scheme-1415293750 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-06/bitcoin-firm-chief-charged-in-first-u-s-securities-case.html Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: Kupsi on November 06, 2014, 05:46:15 PM LOL this dude was a scammer on this forum if I'm correct :) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35827 Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: dropt on November 06, 2014, 05:48:15 PM I miss GPUMAX :'(
Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: notme on November 06, 2014, 05:51:02 PM Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: keewee on November 06, 2014, 06:01:25 PM LOL this dude was a scammer on this forum if I'm correct :) 1% compounding daily interest. Was great for those who got in early and got out before it collapsed :D https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.0 Pity the first post has been edited because it gave the full details of the scheme Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: Kupsi on November 06, 2014, 06:03:30 PM LOL this dude was a scammer on this forum if I'm correct :) 1% compounding daily interest. Was great for those who got in early and got out before it collapsed :D https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.0 Pity the first post has been edited because it gave the full details of the scheme The original post is quoted here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.msg607752#msg607752 Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: keewee on November 06, 2014, 06:06:39 PM LOL this dude was a scammer on this forum if I'm correct :) 1% compounding daily interest. Was great for those who got in early and got out before it collapsed :D https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.0 Pity the first post has been edited because it gave the full details of the scheme The original post is quoted here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.msg607752#msg607752 Ah cheers. I was too lazy to start reading through the thread :) Title: Re: Trendon Shavers was arrested in his home in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: fewcoins on November 06, 2014, 07:16:03 PM They need most of the big players in the bitcoin community OUT so they can put their little puppets in! At least the USA will be more accepting to bitcoin when they control it!! :-X
Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: Cablez on November 07, 2014, 12:52:53 AM [nostalgia]Those were the days......when getting BTC was easy.[/nostalgia] Title: Re: Trendon Shavers was arrested in his home in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: leopard2 on November 07, 2014, 09:25:56 PM Excellent. For once, authorities are chasing real criminals instead of honest tradespeople who exchange BTC for cash or goods and services. ;)
Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: ScreamnShout on November 09, 2014, 08:48:27 AM LOL this dude was a scammer on this forum if I'm correct :) 1% compounding daily interest. Was great for those who got in early and got out before it collapsed :D https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.0 Pity the first post has been edited because it gave the full details of the scheme Title: Re: Trendon Shavers was arrested in his home in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: ElectricMucus on November 09, 2014, 12:11:27 PM LOL this dude was a scammer on this forum if I'm correct :) 1% compounding daily interest. Was great for those who got in early and got out before it collapsed :D https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.0 Pity the first post has been edited because it gave the full details of the scheme Doesn't matter, I called it out at the second post after OP (I haven't edited once) and the idiots in this forum still participated in the scam. Everybody knew it was a ponzi scheme and participated because of it, and that's why I lost pretty much all respect for this community here. Title: Re: Trendon Shavers was arrested in his home in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: Cablez on November 09, 2014, 03:19:38 PM LOL this dude was a scammer on this forum if I'm correct :) 1% compounding daily interest. Was great for those who got in early and got out before it collapsed :D https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.0 Pity the first post has been edited because it gave the full details of the scheme Doesn't matter, I called it out at the second post after OP (I haven't edited once) and the idiots in this forum still participated in the scam. Everybody knew it was a ponzi scheme and participated because of it, and that's why I lost pretty much all respect for this community here. Greed overrules sense almost every time sadly. Title: Re: Trendon Shavers was arrested in his home in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: Miz4r on November 09, 2014, 05:19:55 PM LOL this dude was a scammer on this forum if I'm correct :) 1% compounding daily interest. Was great for those who got in early and got out before it collapsed :D https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.0 Pity the first post has been edited because it gave the full details of the scheme Doesn't matter, I called it out at the second post after OP (I haven't edited once) and the idiots in this forum still participated in the scam. Everybody knew it was a ponzi scheme and participated because of it, and that's why I lost pretty much all respect for this community here. Not everybody participated in it, you're blaming the entire community for the stupid actions of a minority. Anyway they got what they deserved in the end, people stupid enough to participate in an obvious Ponzi should not be surprised when they lose their money. Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: ScreamnShout on November 12, 2014, 06:11:15 AM LOL this dude was a scammer on this forum if I'm correct :) 1% compounding daily interest. Was great for those who got in early and got out before it collapsed :D https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.0 Pity the first post has been edited because it gave the full details of the scheme Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: Soros Shorts on November 12, 2014, 12:05:43 PM [nostalgia]Those were the days......when getting BTC was easy.[/nostalgia] I still have my (appropriately suffixed) GPUMAX fallback worker on BTCGuild, now assigned to an SP30. I can't bring myself to delete it. Title: Re: Trendon Shavers has been arrested in Texas today, November 6. 2014. Post by: CoinCidental on November 12, 2014, 02:19:46 PM LOL this dude was a scammer on this forum if I'm correct :) 1% compounding daily interest. Was great for those who got in early and got out before it collapsed :D https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=50822.0 Pity the first post has been edited because it gave the full details of the scheme Why wouldn't it go to trial now? |