SEC charges ‘decentralized’ Amazon Web Services competitor with scamming investors

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Cryptocurrency startup Crowd Machine never delivered.

of a “decentralized” Amazon Web Services alternative with scamming investors out of millions. The SEC announced a complaint on Friday against Australian citizen Craig Sproule, the CEO of cryptocurrency startup Crowd Machine, which promised a global cloud computing network built on users’ computers. In reality, Sproule allegedly sent $5.8 million to South African gold mines as investors’ cryptocurrency tokens became worthless.

Crowd Machine ran into trouble several months after it began raising money. In mid-2018, it reported that

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