by The Medianistas | Feb 6, 2018 | Find the Fraud, Scams
The Bitcoin boom must have seemed like manna from heaven for former heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield. In January 2018, in two separate tweets, Holyfield endorsed AriseBank, a “decentralized banking product” that purported to act like a cryptocurrency...
by The Medianistas | Jan 31, 2018 | Find the Fraud
The CEO of AriseBank, which had its $600 million initial coin offering shuttered by regulators last week, has released a lengthy statement vowing to fight the Securities and Exchange Commission’s accusations. “Many people’s dreams fail over time, it’s simply a...
by The Medianistas | Jan 31, 2018 | Ethics, Trend Tracker
The shadiest parts of the cryptocurrency world have been drawing more attention in recent weeks. A flurry of regulatory activity on Tuesday may be start of another mass crackdown. In South Korea, one of the biggest cryptocurrency markets, new laws went into effect...
by The Medianistas | Jan 30, 2018 | Find the Fraud
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2018-8 Washington D.C., Jan. 30, 2018 — The Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a court order halting an allegedly fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) that targeted retail investors to fund what it claimed to be the world’s first...
by The Medianistas | Jan 4, 2018 | Find the Fraud
We became interested in AriseBank and it’s business model as a potential ICO investment. It seems Jared Rice, Sr. and Stanley Ford were involved in Dynastack, Inc. which now has a defunct website and BitofGlory.com. In doing our research we came across this,...