Bitfinex crypto exchange says it is a “victim of a fraud” by Crypto Capital, a payment processing company that allegedly lost 880 million USD of Bitfinex’s funds. Last week the president of Crypto Capital Ivan Manuel Molina Lee, was arrested by the Polish police on charges of money laundering, while Oz Yosef, an executive of Crypto Capital has been indicted by the U.S. authorities for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transfer service. Lee, was arrested on suspicion of laundering roughly 350 million USD worth of assets from illegal proceeds and having ties to a transnational drug cartel. He is accused of “laundering dirty money for Columbian drug cartels using a cryptocurrency exchange”, the Polish prosecution says.
Ah crypto-currency "Exchanges" and "Payment Processing". Also known as "Websites" where people can just take your real assets, for something you thought you had. I'm not saying my opinion is the one right opinion? But to my mind? It's like Crypto folks are relearning the lessons of money and counter-party risk that the rest of mankind learned 350 years ago.
lol @raVar... I could buy your entire existence with my BTC gains and have enough left over for hookers and beer.
I would tend to disagree. This opinion is generally held by right-wing pundits in the pockets of billionaire bankers. There is significant interest by serfs to separate their capital from the state. Venezuela, for example, was singlehandedly responsible for the latest crypto boom as their currency weimar'd itself. The problem is it is tied to nothing of real value except itself, and thus it is more of a commodity than a currency. The technology behind it though has been used it a lot of interesting ways (blockchain verification type technology), and who knows, maybe someone will peg a cryptocurrency to gold and it becomes the new "underground" standard for currency. I'm surprised bitfinex got caught up in this. They were one of the few legit exchanges around. Guess no one is safe from bad financial security though.
for 3rd world countries perhaps it's a solution... but other than that, the way the coins are created is exactly the problem... why should Satoshi get to mine for a penny while the late comers have to pay $10000? aren't we just replacing one problem with another. Libra makes more sense... China is trying to go digital... you replace paper cash with digital money and go from there..