In a menacing turn of events yesterday, Bitcoin investment lending platform BitConnect abruptly announced it is shutting down its lending and exchange services. But while this sudden “curveball” might ...

India’s law enforcement has arrested a man suspected of kidnapping two people connected to a once well-known crypto “Ponzi” in an attempt to “recover his investment.” In an Aug. 17 statement, the ...

One of the things that made BitConnect so resilient to criticism was its wide network of promoters, shamelessly shilling the company on YouTube and other social media channels. But it seems that even ...

Over the past few days, I’ve been revisiting the story of the massive 2016-2018 crypto scam BitConnect for an upcoming project. One of my surprising takeaways is that, though BitConnect was a shady ...

Now defunct, Bitconnect operated as a platform that advertised significant profits in tandem with lending activities around Bitcoin and the Bitconnect coin, BCC. A number of people advocated for the ...

This week, we dig into the rise of BitConnect, the strange kidnapping case that ultimately helped unravel the scheme and an important Texas Securities Commission cease and desist order. Listen or ...

The controversial and recently defunct cryptocurrency trading platform BitConnect has been hit with a class action lawsuit from former users who claim the company stole more than $770,000 from them.

Bitconnect, the lending and exchange platform that was long suspected by many in the crypto community of being a Ponzi scheme, has announced it’s shutting down. In a release on its website the ...

Cryptocurrency traders in North Carolina have hit their first major roadblock: BitConnect’s investment operations are being prohibited in North Carolina. BitConnect is a foreign technology ...