Last year, a California man pleaded guilty to a mining fraud of at least US$722 million through the BitClub Network. In February, a New York man pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi-like hedge crypto fund that stole about $90 million from more than 100 investors.
Chargeable gains: Gains and losses on Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies (which are not within trading profits) are chargeable or allowed for capital gains tax if they accrue to an individual, or for corporation tax on chargeable gains if they accrue to a company.

For the sake of clarity an explicit definition of short, medium, and long term is required. In this work short term refers to the 2–4 and 4–8 day period bands. Medium term refers to the 8–16 and 16–32 day bands. Long term will be used to refer to the 32–64, 64–128, 128–256 and 256–512 day bands. The short, medium, and long term bands will be considered separately to begin with, and then considered collectively alongside the results of the GSADF bubble test.
The cryptocurrency has continued to rise and fall as other global administrations and regulators mull legislation to curb increased crypto activity often attributed to laundering and crime.