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Digital Currency

Bitcoin, stablecoins, CBDCs and the future of money.

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How AI Improves Detection of Fake Trading Volume
Digital Currency

How AI Improves Detection of Fake Trading Volume

Building directly on the wash trading detection discussion in earlier articles, understanding the broader category of fake trading volume detection, encompassin

Understanding the Basics of Regulatory Arbitrage in Digital Currency
Digital Currency

Understanding the Basics of Regulatory Arbitrage in Digital Currency

Regulatory arbitrage --- structuring operations specifically to take advantage of more favorable regulatory treatment in different jurisdictions --- represents

Closing Perspectives: Navigating AI, Trading, and Digital Currency Wisely
Digital Currency

Closing Perspectives: Navigating AI, Trading, and Digital Currency Wisely

Having now covered two hundred distinct topics spanning AI-driven trading technology, digital currency market mechanics, decentralized finance, and the fundamen

Why Every Investor Needs This Book Right Now
Digital Currency

Why Every Investor Needs This Book Right Now

Artificial intelligence has transformed finance — and it has transformed fraud right along with it. That’s the core premise behind How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps, Felix Bick’s comprehensive

Inside the Billion-Dollar Scam Industry Bick’s Book Exposes
Digital Currency

Inside the Billion-Dollar Scam Industry Bick’s Book Exposes

It’s easy to think of investment fraud as isolated incidents — a few bad actors here and there. Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps makes a compelling case that this framing badly u

Understanding Crypto’s Dual Nature — Innovation and Fraud
Digital Currency

Understanding Crypto’s Dual Nature — Innovation and Fraud

Part IV of How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps shifts focus to cryptocurrency-specific scams, and Felix Bick opens this section in Chapter 28 with an important, balanced framing that shapes ever

Pump and Dump Schemes: How Coordinated Manipulation Works
Digital Currency

Pump and Dump Schemes: How Coordinated Manipulation Works

Pump and dump schemes are among the most well-documented forms of crypto market manipulation, and Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps devotes Chapter 29 to explaining exactly how th

Rug Pulls: How to Spot One Before You Buy
Digital Currency

Rug Pulls: How to Spot One Before You Buy

Few crypto scam categories are as damaging or as well-documented as rug pulls, and Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps gives this pattern a thorough, practical treatment in Chapter

Liquidity Removal: The Technical Mechanism Behind Rug Pulls
Digital Currency

Liquidity Removal: The Technical Mechanism Behind Rug Pulls

Building directly on the rug pull discussion, Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps devotes Chapter 31 to explaining the specific technical mechanism that makes most hard rug pulls po

Honeypot Tokens: When You Can Buy But Never Sell
Digital Currency

Honeypot Tokens: When You Can Buy But Never Sell

Among the more insidious crypto scam mechanisms covered in Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps is the honeypot token, detailed in Chapter 32 — a scam designed so that the deception

Fake AI Coins: When Two Hype Cycles Collide
Digital Currency

Fake AI Coins: When Two Hype Cycles Collide

The intersection of two of the biggest hype categories in recent memory — artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency — has produced its own distinct scam category, and Felix Bick devotes Chapter 33 of

Telegram and Discord: Fraud’s Favorite Private Venues
Digital Currency

Telegram and Discord: Fraud’s Favorite Private Venues

Private messaging platforms have become primary venues for crypto fraud, and Felix Bick’s How Not to Get Scammed by AI Trading Apps dedicates Chapter 35 to explaining exactly why — and what patterns t