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A Finnish millionaire was cheated with $ 35 million bitcoins from cryptocurrency crooks in Thailand, according to a local report.
The 22-year-old Aarni Otava Saarimaa lost 5,564.4 bitcoins, according to Bangkok Post after inadvertently sending them to scammers in the country.
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Mr Saarimaa believed he was investing in a new cryptocurrency called Dragon Coin, as well as a casino.
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1/8 Satoshi Nakamoto creates the first bitcoin block in 2009
On January 3, 2009 the bitcoin genesis block appeared. It was less than a year after the pseudonym creator Satoshi Nakamoto described the cryptocurrency in a document titled "Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic payment system"
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2/8 Bitcoin is used as currency for the first time
On May 22, 2010 the first bitcoin transaction took place in the real world. Lazlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins – the equivalent of $ 90 million at today's prices
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3/8 Silk Road opens for business
Bitcoin soon gained notoriety for its use on the obscure web. The Silk Road market, established in 2011, was the first of hundreds of sites to offer illegal drugs and services in exchange for bitcoins
4/8 The first ATM bitcoin appears
On October 29, 2013, the first ATM bitcoin was installed in a coffee shop in Vancouver, Canada. The machine has allowed people to exchange bitcoins for cash
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5/8 The fall of MtGox
The biggest bitcoin exchange in the world, MtGox, has filed for bankruptcy in February 2014 after losing nearly 750,000 of its bitcoin customers. At the time, this was about 7% of all bitcoins and the market inevitably crashed
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6/8 The real Satoshi Nakamoto would stand up
In 2015, the Australian police broke into Craig Wright's house after the businessman claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Subsequently rescinds the affirmation
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7/8 The great division of Bitcoin
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8/8 Bitcoin price rockets
By the end of 2017, the bitcoin price is rose to almost $ 20,000. This represented an increase of 1,300% compared to its price at the beginning of the year
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1/8 Satoshi Nakamoto creates the first bitcoin block in 2009
On 3 January 2009, the block of genesis of bitcoins appeared. It was less than a year after the pseudonym creator Satoshi Nakamoto described the cryptocurrency in a document titled "Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic payment system"
Reuters
2/8 Bitcoin is used as currency for the first time
On May 22, 2010 the first bitcoin transaction took place in the real world. Lazlo Hanyecz bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins – the equivalent of $ 90 million at today's prices
Lazlo Hanyecz
3/8 Silk Road opens for business
Bitcoin soon gained notoriety for its use on the obscure web. The Silk Road market, established in 2011, was the first of hundreds of sites to offer illegal drugs and services in exchange for bitcoins
4/8 The first ATM bitcoin appears
On October 29, 2013, the first ATM bitcoin was installed in a coffee shop in Vancouver, Canada. The machine allowed people to exchange bitcoins for cash
REUTERS / Dimitris Michalakis
5/8 The fall of MtGox
The biggest bitcoin exchange in the world, MtGox, filed for bankruptcy in February 2014 after losing nearly 750,000 of its bitcoin customers. At the time, this was about 7% of all bitcoins and the market inevitably crashed
Getty Images
6/8 The real Satoshi Nakamoto would stand up
In 2015, the Australian police broke into Craig Wright's house after the businessman claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Subsequently rescinds the affirmation
Getty Images
7/8 The great division of Bitcoin
On 1 August 2017, an unsolvable controversy within the bitcoin community has seen the division of the network. Bitcoin's underlying blockchain technology fork has created a new cryptocurrency: Bitcoin crate
REUTERS
8/8 Bitcoin price rockets
By the end of 2017, the bitcoin price is rose to almost $ 20,000. This represented an increase of 1300% compared to its price at the beginning of the year
Reuters
A six-month investigation of the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) of Thailand discovered a group of nine people who used cryptocurrency to convert funds into local currency and invest in land.
Among the suspects in the plot there is the soap actor of the twenty-six year old Jiratpisit & # 39; Boom & # 39; Jaravijit, who was arrested by local police during filming in Bangkok, as well as several of his brothers.
"This case is complicated, we have had to carefully examine the documents and trace the money track," said CSD commander Pol Col Chakrit Sawasdee at Bangkok Post .
the accusation of money laundering, we are checking the amount of money with commercial banks only in the accounts of brothers and their relatives and relatives, the money must be frozen and returned to the victims. "
The CSD said that a total of 51 bank accounts were frozen and several plots of land deemed seized with the stolen money were seized.
Investigators say the investigations were complicated by the use of cryptocurrency, which allows tracking the funds through the blockchain but is semi-anonymous by design.
"We had to carefully examine the documents and track the money track," said Chakrit. "It took almost seven months to get approval for arrest warrants."
It is not the first time that local celebrities are involved in cryptocurrency scams, with several Bollywood actors in India involved in a $ 300 million scheme at the start of this year.
