Search results
Powered by Bing
What To Know About Cryptocurrency and Scams | Consumer Advice
consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-know-about-cryptocurrency-and-scams
To steer clear of a crypto con, here are some things to know. Only scammers demand payment in cryptocurrency. No legitimate business is going to ...
New crypto payment scam alert | Consumer Advice
consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2022/01/new-crypto-payment-scam-alert
New crypto payment scam alert. By. Cristina Miranda. Division of Consumer and Business Education, FTC. January 10, 2022. There's a new spin on ...
Spotting the FTC’s most reported crypto scams
consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2022/06/spotting-ftcs-most-reported-crypto-scams
The FTC’s new data spotlight shows crypto is a common way for scammers to steal money, with over 46,000 people reporting losing more than a billion ...
FACT SHEET: President Biden to Sign Executive Order on Ensuring ...
www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/09/fact-sheet-president-biden-to-sign-executive-order-on-ensuring-responsible-innovation-in-digital-assets/
Outlines First Whole-of-Government Strategy to Protect Consumers, Financial Stability, National Security, and Address Climate Risks Digital assets ...
Spotting cryptocurrency investment scams | Consumer Advice
consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2021/05/spotting-cryptocurrency-investment-scams
Once crypto is purchased it pretty much untraceable. I managed to contact the crypto seller who was in London UK. They were already suspicious of the ...
U.S. Treasury Sanctions Notorious Virtual Currency Mixer Tornado Cash
home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0916
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash ...
Reports show scammers cashing in on crypto craze
www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spotlight/2022/06/reports-show-scammers-cashing-crypto-craze
Although it’s yet to become a mainstream payment method, reports to the FTC show it’s an alarmingly common method for scammers to get peoples’ money ...
Where to report scams | USAGov
www.usa.gov/where-report-scams
Ask a real person any government-related question for free. They will get you the answer or let you know where to find it. Call USAGov. Chat with ...
Justice Department Announces Enforcement Action Charging Six ...
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-enforcement-action-charging-six-individuals-cryptocurrency-fraud
Crypto Commodities Scheme: United States v. David Saffron: David Saffron, 49, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was the owner of Circle Society, a cryptocurrency ...
SEC Charges Eleven Individuals in $300 Million Crypto Pyramid Scheme
www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-134
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE2022-134. Washington D.C., Aug. 1, 2022 —. The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged 11 individuals for their roles in ...
Digital Assets | Internal Revenue Service
www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/digital-assets
Digital assets are broadly defined as any digital representation of value which is recorded on a cryptographically secured distributed ledger or any ...
The Fed - What is a Central Bank Digital Currency? - Federal Reserve Board
www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/what-is-a-central-bank-digital-currency.htm
A CBDC is a digital form of central bank money that is widely available to the general public. "Central bank money" refers to money that is a ...
Frequently Asked Questions on Virtual Currency Transactions
www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/frequently-asked-questions-on-virtual-currency-transactions
In 2014, the IRS issued Notice 2014-21, 2014-16 I.R.B. 938, explaining that virtual currency is treated as property for Federal income tax purposes ...
Tornado Cash and Blockchain Privacy: A Primer for Economists and ...
research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/2023/02/03/tornado-cash-and-blockchain-privacy-a-primer-for-economists-and-policymakers
We use Tornado Cash as an example to show how non-custodial crypto asset mixers work. We collect and present data that may be useful for researchers ...
Crypto Scam Tracker - The Department of Financial Protection and Innovation
dfpi.ca.gov/crypto-scams/
The victim got into decentralized crypto trading after meeting a woman on the internet who claimed to be from mainland China. Since September of 2022 ...
The Fed - What is programmable money? - Federal Reserve Board
www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/what-is-programmable-money-20210623.html
This "digital cash" model is the approach pioneered by Bitcoin, combining the UTXO recordkeeping format with the transaction scripting model, with one ...
[PDF] Office of Chief Counsel Internal Revenue Service Memorandum
www.irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/202114020.pdf
cryptocurrency, Bitcoin Cash. The developers of Bitcoin Cash designed the Bitcoin Cash protocol in such a way that holders of Bitcoin received Bitcoin ...
Emmer Introduces Legislation to Prevent ... - Congressman Tom Emmer
emmer.house.gov/2022/1/emmer-introduces-legislation-to-prevent-unilateral-fed-control-of-a-u-s-digital-currency
In October 2021, Congressman Emmer gave remarks during a House Financial Services Committee Hearing entitled Cashed Out: How a Cashless Economy ...
FBI Identifies Cryptocurrency Funds Stolen by DPRK — FBI
www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-identifies-cryptocurrency-funds-stolen-by-dprk
The FBI believes the DPRK may attempt to cash out the bitcoin worth more than $40 million. The FBI investigation found the TraderTraitor-affiliated ...
[PDF] Tax Treatment of Transactions in Cryptocurrency and IRS Tax Enforcement
www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/2019ntf-35.pdf
peer electronic cash system. Cryptocurrency –How Did It Start? (con’t.) •May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz bought two Papa John’s pizzas for 10,000 ...