Monday, December 23, 2024

Bluetrading Scam Update – The Bitcoin-Domain Deal in 2017

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On Aug 9, 2017, the US domain trader and founder of SEO.com and BuyDomain.com, Mike Mann, posted on Facebook that he sold the domain www.bluetrading.com for $12,000 in Bitcoin which equated to around 3.5BTC back then in the evolving crypto hype. Mann himself allegedly acquired the domain in 2009 for $100 and made a decent ROI even though it was a rather small deal for this big domain dealer.

Because of the payment in bitcoins, the perpetrators may not even be known to Mike. Reportedly, it was a beach transaction Mike said and most likely the transaction was done via anonymous bitcoin wallets online via phone or notebook.