Rathnakishore Giri was sentenced to nine years in prison for orchestrating a sophisticated cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. He falsely presented himself as an expert in Bitcoin derivatives, promising ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Coffeezilla and Patrick Bet-David are trending after a public back-and-forth over Goliath Ventures, a company that federal prosecutors recently accused of operating as a Ponzi scheme. The discussion ...

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If you stand in the middle of the every-busy Lagos Island market and scream, “double your money in 10 days,” at least 100 people will turn to look. You can blame the economy, desperation, or our ...