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In the Murky World of Bitcoin, Fraud Is Quicker Than the Law – NYTimes.com

By Securities Docket on December 6, 2013, 7:32 am

The call went out on Twitter: “For insane profits come and join the pump.”

It was an invitation to a penny stock-style pump-and-dump scheme — only this one involved Bitcoin, the soaring, slightly scary virtual currency that has beckoned and bewildered people around the world.

While such bid ’em up, sell ’em off scams are shut down in the financial markets all the time, this one and other frauds involving digital money have gone unchecked. The reason, in no small part: Government authorities do not agree on which laws apply to Bitcoin — or even on what Bitcoin is.

via In the Murky World of Bitcoin, Fraud Is Quicker Than the Law – NYTimes.com

Posted in Industry, Top | Tagged Bitcoin, Regulation

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