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SEC Twitter Hacker Gets 14 Months for Bitcoin Pump Scheme—Because Crime Doesn’t HODL
SEC Twitter Hacker Gets 14 Months for Bitcoin Pump Scheme—Because Crime Doesn’t HODL
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Another day, another crypto criminal learns the hard way that blockchain is forever—especially when the feds are watching.
The mastermind behind January’s high-profile SEC X account hack—which briefly sent Bitcoin prices soaring on fake ETF approval news—just got slapped with 14 months in federal prison. Turns out ’trustless systems’ still trust subpoenas.
While the crypto-sphere debates whether this counts as ’institutional adoption,’ the rest of Wall Street chuckles into their $27 artisanal coffees. At least someone’s finally bringing accountability to crypto... even if it had to come from a courtroom.
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