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Las Vegas man who claimed he would make Elko Bitcoin capital arrested for fraud

A temporary City Hall for Bitcointopia.
A temporary City Hall for Bitcointopia.
Thursday, November 22, 2018 1:00 AM
The United States of Bitcoin will not be in Elko County.

Less than six months after Las Vegas bitcoin trader Morgan Rockcoons pledged to create a bitcoin utopia outside of Elko, federal prosecutors arrested the embattled Bitcointopia leader for wire fraud. According to the indictment, Rockcoons “would offer to sell land in Bitcointopia, and accept bitcoin as payment for land purchases, when in fact he had no land to sell.”
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