Crypto Giggle
For this entry, we go pretty far back to 2011, a mere two years after the inception of Bitcoin itself.
BTC-E was a crypto trading platform launched by Alexander Vinnik that at one point represented 3% of all Bitcoin trading volume.
Apparently Vinnik faced billions of dollars in money laundering charges where it is said he withdrew billions from the exchange and laundered them, but a Reddit post that reads more like a Hollywood movie script, alleges Vinnik may have been involved in a plot even more sinister.
The story involves, being a fugitive on the run, a rebrand of the exchange and even a bizarre connection to a paramilitary group that downed the famous Malaysia 173 flight.
You can read more at this Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/k9rv6o/nobody_else_seems_to_be_talking_about_how_crazy/
In late 2020, Vinnick was sentenced to five years in Prison in France, but we have to believe this is not where the crazy story ends for BTC-E and those involved.
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