Back in October of last year, Carlos Matos was one of dozens of investors in the cryptocurrency Bitconnect invited on stage at the company’s First Annual Ceremony in Thailand. There he delivered a ...

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In a menacing turn of events yesterday, Bitcoin investment lending platform BitConnect abruptly announced it is shutting down its lending and exchange services. But while this sudden “curveball” might ...

Over the past few days, I’ve been revisiting the story of the massive 2016-2018 crypto scam BitConnect for an upcoming project. One of my surprising takeaways is that, though BitConnect was a shady ...

Bitcoin can rest easy. It appears to have not lost Carlos Matos. "Bitcoin Is A Scam," reads a tweet from an apparent parody account bearing his name. "Sell Everything It's NEVER Going Back Up" Bitcoin ...

Bitcoin can rest easy. It appears to have not lost Carlos Matos. The walking meme made famous by his unbridled enthusiasm for Bitconnect, a cryptocurrency project strongly resembling a Ponzi scheme ...