(Natural News) Russia’s financial regulator has proposed a ban on cryptocurrency-related activities such as trading and mining in the country. To back this proposal, it released a report outlining crypto’s potential use for criminal activity and the high energy requirement of crypto mining. The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) publicized its crypto report on Jan. […]

(Natural News) The hunt is on to find the billions of Federal Reserve Notes that supposedly back the cryptocurrency “stablecoin” known as Tether. The existing financial paradigm is upset about the threat that cryptocurrency poses to the banking cartel, and recently converged to discuss how to handle it. Names like Janet Yellen (Treasury Secretary) summoned […]

(Natural News) On Monday, the former top-selling developer in China, Evergrande, saw its stock value plummet to new lows right before the company failed to deliver on an $82.5 million foreign (dollar) bond payment. Following mixed reports about two previous coupon payments that were supposedly made in the 11th hour – evidence suggests that Evergrande […]

(Natural News) The Evergrande (“EverSCAMMED”) fiasco is nothing more than a classic Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme involving property developers and greed-driven investors who chased high returns while forgetting about the existence of risk. (Every generation, it seems, must learn this painful lesson the hard way…) Like all successful Ponzi schemes, Evergrande’s rise to become a […]

(Natural News) Nearly 26,500 cases of cryptocurrency scams were reported to the government last year, resulting in a loss of $419 million. This year, the number of cases is on pace to exceed those numbers. Glenn Titus of Salem, Oregon was among those who got scammed recently. Titus was hit by what’s known in the […]

(Natural News) The attorney general of Texas has charged a reality TV couple with scamming African American communities out of “tens of millions” in an enormous pyramid scheme. The couple in question are husband and wife duo LaShonda and Marlon Moore. The couple became minor celebrities when they appeared on the reality TV show “Family […]

(Natural News) Just in 2021 alone, some 10,000 new cryptocurrencies have been “minted” and hyped in massive pump-and-dump schemes that are making a few people very rich while leaving many others holding the bag. As it turns out, most cryptocurrencies follow the same Ponzi scheme patterns, which typically involve social media “influencers” drawing in the […]

(Natural News) Hundreds of cryptocurrency investors lost all their money in their digital wallets after a cryptocurrency scam. The victims invested in a new cryptocurrency, allowing them to purchase pre-sale tokens through fund transfers. Unfortunately, the fund transfer approvals permitted bad actors to access the victims’ digital wallets – and steal all their money. The […]

(Natural News) A San Francisco-based programmer who owns $220 million worth of bitcoins is now unable to access his money because he lost his password. While this doesn’t seem like that big a story, especially with how easy it can be to recover passwords with most services these days, Bitcoin’s decentralized nature complicates things for Stefan […]

(Natural News) Just in case a cabal of criminals tries to pull the same scam again, should you come across an alleged “green energy” investment opportunity that promises big returns through the production of so-called “biochar,” don’t fall for it: Biochar is nothing more than incinerated biosludge, which in and of itself is a “green […]