US court orders South African firm's CEO to pay $3.4bn for bitcoin fraud

A federal judge in Texas has ordered the head of a South African firm to pay a whopping $3.4bn (R62.35bn) for what the US commodities regulator said was its largest ever fraud case involving bitcoin.

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