加密货币长期以来一直与欺诈和彻底的骗局有关

加密货币长期以来一直与欺诈和彻底的骗局有关，其历史可以追溯到2014年Gox Crypto Exchange的比特币巨大损失。

Cryptocurrency has long been associated with frauds and outright scams, dating back at least to the massive loss of Bitcoin from the Mt. Gox crypto exchange in 2014. In many ways, crypto is an ideal vehicle to commit fraud because of its broad adoption by criminals, the anonymity of transactions and a gullible public that views cryptocurrencies as lottery tickets to riches.

Cryptocurrency has long been associated with frauds and outright scams, dating back at least to the massive loss of Bitcoin from the Mt. Gox crypto exchange in 2014. In many ways, crypto is an ideal vehicle to commit fraud because of its broad adoption by criminals, the anonymity of transactions and a gullible public that views cryptocurrencies as lottery tickets to riches.

While cryptocurrency really hit the mainstream with the run-up in Bitcoin in 2017, it’s exploded in popularity since 2020, when the Federal Reserve dropped interest rates to zero, encouraging a flight to risky assets. Even U.S. President Donald Trump now has a cryptocurrency ($TRUMP) and First Lady Melania Trump has her coin, too ($MELANIA). President Trump has become a notable crypto supporter and introduced the U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.

尽管加密货币在2017年在比特币的升级中确实成为主流，但自2020年美联储将利率下降到零以来，它的受欢迎程度爆炸了，鼓励了飞往风险的资产的航班。甚至美国总统唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）现在也有加密货币（特朗普$），第一夫人梅拉尼亚·特朗普（Melania Trump）也有她的硬币（$ Melania）。特朗普总统已成为著名的加密支持者，并引入了美国战略比特币保护区。

The recent emergence and explosion of cryptocurrency into the mainstream has also brought along with it a raft of fraud, blowups and rug pulls, where crypto creators simply leave with the money that’s been invested in their crypto project. Here are five of the largest crypto scandals.

加密货币在主流中的最近出现和爆炸也带来了一系列的欺诈，炸弹和地毯拉力，加密货币创作者只是将投资于加密货币项目投入的钱离开。这是五个最大的加密丑闻。

5 huge crypto scandals

5个巨大的加密丑闻

The many, many crypto scams are testament to the danger of investing in cryptocurrency.

许多加密骗局骗局证明了投资加密货币的危险。

1. FTX

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FTX was one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges and one of the biggest blowups, following the slump in cryptocurrency markets in 2022. FTX was supposed to hold $11.3 billion in clients’ assets at Alameda Research, the company’s hedge fund arm. However, just $2.3 billion of those funds could be found, as FTX had moved funds out of customer accounts and used them for its own purposes — embezzlement, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. FTX filed for bankruptcy in November 2022. FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud and conspiracy to launder money, and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in March 2024.

在2022年加密货币市场下跌之后，FTX是世界上最大的加密货币交易所之一，也是最大的爆炸之一。FTX本来应该在该公司的对冲基金会Alameda Research持有113亿美元的客户资产。但是，根据美国司法部的说法，由于FTX已将资金从客户帐户移出，并将其用于自身目的 - 挪用公款，因此只能找到其中23亿美元的资金。 FTX于2022年11月申请破产。FTX创始人兼首席执行官Sam Bankman-Fried被判犯有欺诈和阴谋罪，并于2024年3月被判处25年徒刑。

2. Binance

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Binance Holding, the name behind the huge Binance crypto exchange, pled guilty in November 2023 to a variety of crimes, including violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and failure to register as a money-transmitting business. The company agreed to pay more than $4 billion as part of the charges. At the same time the company’s CEO, Changpeng Zhao, pled guilty to failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program, and then resigned as CEO. “Its willful failures allowed money to flow to terrorists, cybercriminals, and child abusers through its platform,” said Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen at the time. Binance was launched in 2017 and quickly became the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.

Binance Holding是巨大的Binance Crypto Exchange的名字，于2023年11月对各种犯罪表示有罪，包括违反《银行保密法》和未能注册作为货币传递业务的行为。作为指控的一部分，该公司同意支付超过40亿美元。同时，该公司的首席执行官Changpeng Zhao承诺为未能维持有效的反洗钱计划而有罪，然后辞去首席执行官的职务。当时的财政部长珍妮特·耶伦（Janet L. Yellen）说：“它的故意失败使金钱能够通过其平台流向恐怖分子，网络犯罪分子和儿童虐待者。” Binance于2017年推出，并迅速成为世界上最大的加密货币交易所。

3. Terra USD cryptocurrency

3。TerraUSD加密货币

The year 2022 was rough for cryptocurrency, as rising rates drove risk-averse traders away from the sector. And that lack of confidence helped blow up Terra USD, a stablecoin pegged to the U.S. dollar. In May 2022, traders began selling the stablecoin and, for technical reasons, it had trouble maintaining its peg with the dollar. After that initial break from the peg, the coin spun out of control and plummeted, becoming virtually worthless over a few days. It was one of the first crypto blowups in 2022 as the Federal Reserve rapidly raised interest rates to fight inflation.

2022年对于加密货币来说是粗糙的，因为增长率使规避风险的交易者远离该行业。而且缺乏信心帮助炸毁了Terra Usd，这是一个与美元挂钩的稳定者。 2022年5月，交易者开始出售稳定的股币，出于技术原因，它很难用美元保持钉子。在从钉子上开始的最初突破之后，硬币失控并暴跌，几天内变得毫无价值。它是2022年最早的加密爆炸之一，因为美联储迅速提高了与通货膨胀抗争的利率。

4. Squid Game

4。鱿鱼游戏

The Squid Game coin was launched in 2021 to piggyback on the popularity of the Netflix series “Squid Game,” promising an “play-to-earn” online game based on the series. Unfortunately, the coin’s developers treated its investors every bit as badly as the contestants on the series were treated. Squid coin was a classic rug pull operation, with the project’s founders absconding with clients’ funds just a few days after launching the project. The coin skyrocketed in its few days of existence, peaking around $2,861 per coin, but investors had trouble selling the tokens. Days after the launch, the project’s founders cashed out $3.36 million put up by investors and disappeared. In minutes the coin plummeted to less than a cent in price. While small in total value, the fraud was a media sensation, with many crypto traders learning what a rug pull is.

Squid游戏硬币于2021年推出，以了解Netflix系列“ Squid Game”的受欢迎程度，该系列有望基于该系列的“ Play-to-earn”在线游戏。不幸的是，硬币的开发人员对其投资者的对待和该系列中的参赛者的待遇一样严重。 Squid Coin是一项经典的地毯操作，该项目的创始人在启动该项目几天后就潜逃了客户的资金。硬币在其存在的几天内飞涨，每枚硬币达到约2,861美元的高峰，但投资者很难出售代币。发布后的几天，该项目的创始人兑现了投资者投入的336万美元，并消失了。在几分钟之内，硬币的价格下降到不到一美分的价格。虽然总价值很小，但欺诈是一种媒体的感觉，许多加密货币交易员正在学习地毯的拉力。

5. LIBRA

5。天秤座

Javier Milei, the president of Argentina, promoted a cryptocurrency called $LIBRA in February 2025 posts on social media outlets. “This private project will be dedicated to encouraging the growth of the Argentine economy by funding small Argentine businesses and startups,” said a message on X in translation. Following the message, millions poured into the coin. But just hours later insiders, who owned most of the cryptocurrency, sold out and took an estimated $250 million with them, and the crypto’s price crashed by 9

阿根廷总裁哈维尔·麦利（Javier Milei）在2025年2月在社交媒体上宣传了名为$天秤座的加密货币。 “这个私人项目将致力于通过资助阿根廷小型企业和初创企业来鼓励阿根廷经济的增长，” X翻译中的一条消息说。消息之后，数以百万计的硬币涌入。但是仅仅几个小时后，拥有大部分加密货币的内部人士就卖光了，估计赚了2.5亿美元，加密货币的价格在9次崩溃了