Yong Social Finance

The promise was simple. Buy a membership, earn up to 1 percent daily, and watch your money double or triple. No trading skills required. No market risk. Just passive income from a revolutionary crypto mining operation. It sounded too good to be true. Because it was. A Miami man known as "Bitcoin Rodney" just pleaded guilty to his role in one of the largest cryptocurrency fraud schemes in history. The HyperFund operation collected roughly $1.8 billion from investors worldwide between June 2020 and January 2022 . And none of it came from mining. The Man Behind the Nickname Rodney Burton, 56, built a public persona around cryptocurrency. He called himself "Bitcoin Rodney" and used that brand to attract investors . He even organized a major crypto conference in Miami featuring appearances from actor Jamie Foxx, rapper Rick Ross, investor Daymond Green, and author Jordan Belfort . The irony is almost too perfect. Belfort, the "Wolf of Wall Street," built ...