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14 Sep 2018, 10:22 am
Units of a mutual fund trust are considered qualified investments under registered plans such as Registered Retirement Savings Plans (“RRSPs”) and Tax-Free Savings Accounts (“TFSAs”). [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 3:40 pm
The Bitcoin Savings and Trust (BTCST) shut down in August 2012, and by June 2013 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed charges against its founder. [read post]
20 Aug 2013, 7:08 am
Probably the Texas court was not favourably impressed by the fact that the defendant, Bitcoin Savings and Trust, had previously operated as First Pirate Savings & Trust. [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 7:01 am
Shavers, using the online handle "pirateat40," of advertising the Bitcoin Savings and Trust and accepting 700,467 Bitcoins, worth approximately $4,592,806, as investments while promising a 7% weekly return. [read post]
7 Aug 2013, 9:55 am
The case revolves around Bitcoin Savings and Trust (BTCST), a virtual Bitcoin-based hedge fund that many suspected of being a scam. [read post]
25 Apr 2014, 12:46 am
Shavers, founder and operator of Bitcoin Savings and Trust (“BTCST”), with defrauding investors in a Bitcoin-related Ponzi scheme. [read post]
8 Aug 2013, 10:28 am
Aug. 6, 2013), a case involving the failed “Bitcoin Savings & Trust”: First, the Court must determine whether the BTCST investments constitute an investment of money. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 6:00 am
In Shavers, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Trendon Shavers with fraud for allegedly using his company Bitcoin Savings and Trust (BTCST) to swindle over $60 million in Bitcoin from unwitting investors in a “virtual” ponzi scheme. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 9:01 pm
Courts Find That Bitcoin Is Money In 2013, Trendon Shavers, the founder of Bitcoin Savings & Trust (BTCST), an online investment fund, was accused of defrauding his customers out of $4.5 million worth of Bitcoin. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 4:00 am
Purported to have had somewhere around 500,000 BTC in Bitcoin Savings & Trust, his fund that was offering deposit account holders up to 7% weekly interest on their holdings. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 7:57 pm
The link in the cycle with the greatest incentives to switch to bitcoin here are likely the store's suppliers, because they don’t fully trust the store, nor the underlying currency, euro or post-euro, that is the “O” in an IOU, but are participating in the scrip because, sans bitcoin, they have no other choice.In bitcoin specific cycles create other cost savings. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 1:13 pm
According to the SEC's news release, he set up a company called Bitcoin Savings and Trust and raised approximately 700,000 Bitcoin, allegedly offered investors 7% weekly interest as a result of Bitcoin arbitrage activity. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 2:11 pm
He wisely changed the name of this “virtual hedge fund” to “Bitcoin Savings and Trust” (“BST”). [read post]
24 Aug 2012, 10:08 am
A cashless economy might make us richer: “One 2003 study estimated that moving from a wholly paper-based network to a completely electronic one could save an economy 1 percent of its annual GDP (a $150 billion sum for the United States). [read post]
10 Mar 2014, 9:01 pm
As with many newfangled investments, customers were perhaps too trusting and just saw the rising value of Bitcoins as a way to make a quick profit. [read post]
9 Aug 2013, 5:00 am
by Justin Porter in Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Savings and Trust in Bitcoin Forum [read post]
21 Apr 2014, 9:00 pm
But that dream hasn't been helped much by the numerous high-profile legal cases involving the currency in recent years: The Bitcoin Savings and Trust hedge fund collapsed; uncertainty fueled the implosion of Mt. [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 11:40 am
The letter from the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee—dated Monday, August 12, 2013 but published on its website on Tuesday—cites an ongoing case in Texas involving Bitcoin Savings and Trust (BTCST). [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 8:48 am
Shavers, the founder and operator of Bitcoin Savings and Trust, with defrauding investors in a Ponzi scheme involving Bitcoin. [read post]
25 Mar 2013, 9:01 pm
He based Bitcoin on cryptographic techniques that allow you to be sure that the money you receive is authentic even when you don’t know or trust the sender. [read post]
