Reuters Investigation — Cryptocurrency Exchanges: The New Front of the old West
October 2, 2017 | Back to News
Reuters — the world’s largest international multimedia news provider — recently published an in-depth investigative study focused on the unscrupulous world of cryptocurrency exchanges. As the article explains, the burgeoning world of digital currency is a tantalizing way for investors looking to ride the wave of popularity of online exchanges to reap tremendous profits in a realm largely beyond the reach of government regulators. However, that opportunity is fraught with tremendous risk; and many of these unregulated exchanges have been susceptible in recent years to fraud, software malfunctions, poor security measures, and outright theft.
According to the Reuters report (https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/bitcoin-exchanges-risks/):
There have been at least three dozen heists of cryptocurrency exchanges since 2011; many of the hacked exchanges later shut down. More than 980,000 bitcoins have been stolen, which today would be worth about $4 billion. Few have been recovered. Burned investors have been left at the mercy of exchanges as to whether they will receive any compensation.
David Silver of Silver Miller — who has successfully prosecuted several cryptocurrency lawsuits on behalf of aggrieved investors and digital currency users, including a class action case against a shuttered U.S.-based exchange named Cryptsy and its founder, Paul Vernon — was cited in the Reuters study. “This is no different than bank robbers in the Old West,” David said. “Cryptocurrency is just a new front.”
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