When FTX supremo Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years behind bars again in March, he joined a protracted checklist of crypto figureheads who’ve been handed stiff punishments for being caught with both their fingers within the money register or utilizing blockchain know-how to facilitate equally unscrupulous deeds.
Additionally on the checklist, there are darkish net directors (Silk Highway mastermind Ross Ulbricht and Dream Market’s Gal Vallerius), worth manipulators (Mango Markets’ Avraham Eisenberg), and insider merchants (NFT swindler Nathaniel Chastain).
And, as you’d anticipate from a few of the strongest gamers in a fledgling trade that’s been known as each ‘the future of finance’ and the ‘Wild West,’ the quantities they’ve been convicted of stealing, misappropriating, or incomes are removed from insignificant. In some circumstances, we’re speaking tens of billions.
As such, regulators, governments, and regulation enforcement — significantly these within the US — need to be seen to be doing one thing. And, when you can’t cease these crimes from taking place, the following neatest thing is handy out appropriate punishments.
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Certainly, sentences dished out to this point vary from a number of months to full-life phrases. However who’ll be free by the top of the yr and who’s going to be having fun with jail meals for the following quarter of a century?
Click on right here for a chart evaluating the sentences given within the US to a few of the most high-profile crypto criminals over the previous decade.
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