SEC Shuts Down Bitcoin Fraud Scheme Sold Using Twitter, Facebook

Mark Melin

Published onMarch 6, 2014

Updated on May 13, 2021

Fraud schemes follow hot markets and hot money, and Bitcoin is no exception.

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Bitcoin might not be the issue, despite frenzied market behavior

Bitcoin is the center of the Mt. Gox collapse, the online exchange where 850,000 Bitcoins worth over $27 million “disappeared.” This news follows a recent Bitcoin executives' suicide, which comes on the heels of news that the Securities and Exchange Commission took emergency action to shut down an alleged fraudulent Bitcoin pyramid scheme promoted on Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) and Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR). With this scheme...

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Mark Melin

Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.

SEC Shuts Down Bitcoin Fraud Scheme Sold Using Twitter, Facebook

Bitcoin might not be the issue, despite frenzied market behavior

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