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Taiwan's First Bitcoin
Robbery Leads to Four
Arrests
T
aiwanese
authorities
recently
arrested four men over a bitcoin
robbery that netted them 5
million Taiwanese dollars, worth roughly
US$170,000. According to police, this was
the first-ever bitcoin-related robbery in the
country.
To get the money, three men in their early
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twenties reportedly lured a bitcoiner,
surnamed Tai, to a central city. They lured
their victim by claiming they were interested
in buying bitcoin from him, face-to-face.
Tai wasn’t naïve, and brought a friend to
accompany him and presumably help if
anything went wrong during the sale. Once
Tai showed the assailants he had the bitcoins