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A scam tactic perpetrated against crypto traders and investors, that results in all investment funds disappearing without a trace. The scam usually takes the shape of scammers setting up a brand new coin that promises instant gains or too-good-to-be-true scenarios. Once the coin is made public, the scammers (criminals) drum up attention on social media and chat rooms, in hopes of enticing investors to buy the cryptocurrency of the project. The fraud materializes when the founders of the coin disappear without notice, taking all investor funds with them.

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The crypto market, born out of money meeting technology, covers a vast amount of subjects. Crypto not only covers cryptocurrency trading, but it includes everything from digital payments,...

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XRP
XRP, launched in 2012, is the native currency that runs on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), a public, open-sourced, permissionless, and decentralized blockchain that anybody can contribute to or transact on. XRP is used on the XRPL, which is a payment settlement, asset exchange, and remittance network for global payments used by private financial businesses and […]

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