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Sead Fadilpašić

Major crackdown freezes over $300 million in cryptocurrency stolen from scams

Bitcoin.
  • Two separate law enforcement efforts cumulatively froze more than $300m in stolen crypto
  • Crypto heavyweights are joining forces with law enforcement
  • Freezing assets is not the same as retrieving them

The very nature of the blockchain often makes retrieving money stolen through scams almost impossible, however two separate announcements have recently confirmed more than $300 million of stolen crypto assets were frozen by law enforcement.

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