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Cases / Crypto & digital assets

BitClub Network

Matthew Brent Goettsche, Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks, Joseph Frank Abel, Silviu Catalin Balaci

ReportedDec 10, 2019
LocationLafayette, CO
Amount$722,000,000

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Company / entity
BitClub Network
Industry
Bitcoin mining pool shares
How investors were recruited
Multi-level recruitment: existing investors rewarded for bringing in new investors
Pitch & red flags
Promised "bitcoin mining earnings"; called "too big to fail"; "the most transparent company in the history of the world"

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Source

U.S. Department of Justice official

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