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Cryptocurrency Rug-Pull Scams: A Comprehensive Analysis

Don Johnson on March 11, 2025

1. Technical Deep Dive How Rug-Pulls Occur Programmatically: Rug-pull scams typically involve malicious smart contracts that appear to o...
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Mariah Edith

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Mich James

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Jon Oliver

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James Rodrigo

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Game-Theoretic Intervention"
Dmitri Volkov
Harvard Game Theory Society President
BitReclaim's solution to our $3.2M dilemma:

  • Initial contact: bitreclaim.com (Day 0 08:00)
  • Day 1: Nash equilibrium established via RBF spoofing
  • Day 3: 72.4 BTC recovered from hot wallet after we provided all the evidences of transactions, together with wallet addresses and transaction hashes which was used for a digital triangulation that traced the funds to the outsourced wallets.
  • Day 5 11:00: Assets secured in air gapped Ledger
Their minimax strategy neutralized ACG's advantage perfectly.
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Caridad J. Porter

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John Castro

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John Castro

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Chris Jackson

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