1. Gox Hack (2014)
Once you handle more than 70 % of the global Bitcoin transactions, MT. collapsed. Gox Exchange in Japan in early 2014 when infiltrators set out to about 850,000 BTC – which is worth about $ 450 million – several years away. Poor security practices allowed the delay in the disclosure of the violation of the theft to pass without anyone noticing them until the requests for clouds over the tougher exchange. The failure of Mount Jooks has stimulated a more compact exchange of exchanges around the world.
2. Onecoin Ponzi (2014-2017) chart
Onecoin has collected as “The Next Bitcoin”, estimated at $ 4 billion in more than three million investors by selling educational packages including symbolic packages. In fact, there was no functional Blockchain. The founder of Ruja Ignatova disappeared in 2017, and the main participants faced charges in multiple judicial authorities – still on one of the largest Ponzi plans in history.
3. Scam scam (2018-2019)
Plusoken, which is denying as a high-yielding “coded” dish, attracted more than two million users-most often in Asia-curtain with monthly returns from 9 to 18 %. The operators raised about $ 2.9 billion of bitcoin, ethereum and other distinctive symbols, then washed through mixers and exchanges. In late 2019, the arrests led to the recovery of partial funds, but the collapse led to a decrease in BTC prices and open market weaknesses.
4. Bitconnect Ponzi & Exchang (2016-2018)
BitConnect collection is up to 40 % of the monthly revenue with its distinctive code, BCC. Investors moved nearly $ 2.6 billion in the plan before the organizers in Texas, North Carolina export stops and desist. In January 2018, Bitconnect suddenly closed its lending platform, causing BCC to drop from more than $ 400 to less than $ 1.
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Once the second largest encryption exchange in the world, FTX exploded in November 2022 after a liquidity crisis revealed that customer deposits had been collected with Alaameda research, sister trading company. It has an estimated $ 8.7 billion of user’s money, which led to bankruptcy and criminal charges against the founder Sam Bangan -Farid.
6. Terra Luna Crash (2022)
Stablecoin algorithm maintained Terra, UST, to link it through mint and burn mechanism with the original symbol color. In May 2022, the market shrinkage led to a cycle of death: UST PEG lost one dollar, excessive Luna supply, and both collapsed, with more than $ 40 billion in market value within days.
7. Quadrigacx money “missing” (2019)
The largest encryption exchange in Canada, Quadrigacx, suddenly stopped withdrawals when the founder Gerald Cotton – as he took special keys to the cold wallets containing about $ 190 million ($ 140 million) to his grave. Subsequent investigations revealed the mismanagement and the funds included badly.
8. The Dao Hack (2016)
The decentralized independent organization (DAO) raised on Ethereum $ 150 million through smart contracts. The attackers used a frequent weakness to drain nearly a third of the money (about $ 60 million). The accident led to the controversial ETHEREUM thorn, which led to ETH and ETH Classic.
9. Bitfinex Hack (2016)
The infiltrators violated the BITFINEX exchange by exploiting the weaknesses in multi -sign governorates, and theft of about 120,000 BTC (about 70 million dollars at the time). BitFinex “BFX Takens” has been released as Ius, recovered over the following two years.
10. Silk and Ross Olbrecht (2011-2013)
Silk Road, The Darknet Marketplace, facilitated the total transactions of about 214,000 BTC (at a value of about $ 183 million at the time) before the American authorities closed it in 2013. The founder Ross Olbrecht was sentenced to life imprisonment, drug trafficking, and conspiracy.
11. Coincheck Hack (2018)
In January 2018, the Tokyo-based Coincheck suffered a breach of 523 million NEM-icons-about $ 530 million at the time-from a hot portfolio. Coincheck paid users from her own capital, but the event emphasized the dangers of Exchant Hot Wallet.
12. Polly Burnic Network (2021)
One of the largest DEFI theft: The attackers took advantage of the vulnerability across the series through Siphon more than $ 610 million of encryption across several groups. In a sudden turn, the infiltrators returned most of the money after the negotiations, noting “pleasure”.
13. The exploitation of the worm bridge (2022)
The bridge of the crossing chain of the tumor lost about $ 320 million in ETH wrapped when the attackers coded without depositing guarantees. The trustee network was fixed in Wormhole after the attack, and the institution covered the losses of users.
14. The cream financing a flash loan attack (2021)
The exploitation of a flash loan to the financing of the cream has drained approximately $ 130 million through symbolic markets. The attacker dealt with the distinctive symbol prices on curve financing pools, then pay the loan, leaving the cream with large, non -invested debts.
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The EULER Finance vulnerability allowed the attackers to steal about 200 million dollars by treating interest rate parameters. Urs immediately stopped its markets, and the team provided a $ 10 million insect reward to recover money.
Fill a large small carpet
Besides the main fraud, retail investors are still a victim of the same small carpet:
- Houckee (squid, 2021): It rose from $ 0.01 to more than 2,800 dollars before developers drain about $ 3 million in liquidity complexes.
- Defi100 (DF100, 2021): Closed at $ 32 million of investor money at launch when developers lost control of keys.
- Odin Protocol (Odin, 2021): She withdrew about 4 million dollars of liquidity on the launch day, leaving the holders of unnecessary symbols.
- Compounder (CP3R, 2022): Transfer all pre -liquidity (about $ 5 million) to Dev Wallet in Launch – investors.
Sharia wealth makers in the encryption industry
In addition to fraud and exploits, the encryption space created a tremendous legitimate fortune for the first founders, adopters and developers who built the foundations of the industry:
- Satoshi Nakamoto: It is estimated that the borrowed creator of Bitcoin has about one million BTC – tens of billions, with peak prices design – which makes Nakamoto one of the richest individuals in the world.
- Cameron and Tyler Winkelvos: Early Bitcoin investors and the founders of Exchant Gemini, it is said that Twinkvoss Twins carry more than 100,000 BTC, translated into several billion dollars in net value.
- Changpeng Zhao (CZ): As the founder of Binance, the largest exchange of encryption in the world through trading, the net value of CZ fluctuated, but it reached its peak over 30 billion dollars.
- Brian Armstrong: Coinbase’s co -founder and CEO, the first exchange for publicly tradition (NASDAQ: Coin), has made him an Armstrong’s share billionaire with a net value of more than two billion dollars.
- Vitalik Buterin: Buterin is involved in ETHEREUM, and Buserin holds large ETH and post-institution allocations that total hundreds of thousands of ETH- more than one billion dollars.
- Arthur Hayes: The former CEO of Bitmex, Hayes has become a billionaire through the success of the stock exchange, with an estimate of net value in the individual number billions.
- Unknown early miners: The individuals who minted bitcoin in its cradle (2009-2010) seized tens of thousands of BTC at a small cost; These early metal currencies now deserve hundreds of millions or more.
