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</style><table class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title">Bitconnect Coin</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption">Bitconnect logo</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: silver">Denominations</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Code</th><td class="infobox-data">BCC</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: silver">Development</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Original author(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Satish Kumbhani</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">February 15, 2016<a href="#cite_note-finder-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Development status</th><td class="infobox-data">Discontinued</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Programming_language" title="Programming language">Written in</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a> C#</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Windows" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows">Windows</a>, <a href="OS_X" class="mw-redirect" title="OS X">OS X</a>, <a href="Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a>, <a href="Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a>, <a href="IOS" title="IOS">iOS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Source model</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Open_source" title="Open source">Open source</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="MIT_License" title="MIT License">MIT License</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: silver">Ledger</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Trusted_timestamping" title="Trusted timestamping">Timestamping scheme</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Proof_of_stake" title="Proof of stake">Proof of stake</a>/<a href="Proof_of_work" title="Proof of work">Proof of work</a> (hybrid)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Block reward</th><td class="infobox-data">0.42% every 15 days; 10% inflation per year</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Block time</th><td class="infobox-data">60 seconds</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: silver">Website</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bitconnect.co/">bitconnect.co</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181128120223/http://bitconnect.co/">last archived version, 28 November 2018</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table>

Bitconnect (stylized bitconnect and also spelled BitConnect, <a href="Ticker_symbol" title="Ticker symbol">ticker code</a> BCC) was an <a href="Open-source" class="mw-redirect" title="Open-source">open-source</a> <a href="Cryptocurrency" title="Cryptocurrency">cryptocurrency</a> in 2016–2018 that was connected with a <a href="High-yield_investment_program" title="High-yield investment program">high-yield investment program</a>, a type of <a href="Ponzi_scheme" title="Ponzi scheme">Ponzi scheme</a>.<a href="#cite_note-NW-2">[2]</a><a href="#cite_note-Wieczner-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> After the platform administrators closed the earning platform on January 16, 2018, and refunded the users' investments in BCC following a 92% coin value crash, confidence was lost and the value of the coin plummeted to below $1 from a previous high of nearly $525.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

Bitconnect was released in 2016 to allow users to lend the value of Bitconnect Coin in return for interest payments. The marquee program was the so-called lending platform where users traded <a href="Bitcoin" title="Bitcoin">Bitcoin</a> for Bitconnect Coin and could lock in the instantaneous value of the coin for a set period of time while earning interest calculated daily. The interest payouts were determined by a so-called "trading bot". The trading bot was the most controversial piece of the Bitconnect.co system. The liquidity of the BCC cryptocurrency funded users' ability to exchange their earnings for Bitcoin.

On November 7, 2017, the government of the United Kingdom issued Bitconnect a notice with two months to prove its legitimacy.<a href="#cite_note-finder-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a>

On January 3, 2018, <a href="Texas_State_Securities_Board" title="Texas State Securities Board">Texas State Securities Board</a> issued a <a href="Cease_and_desist" title="Cease and desist">cease and desist</a> to the company, calling it a Ponzi scheme, and citing failings in user earnings transparency, and misleading statements.<a href="#cite_note-finder-1">[1]</a> Texas State Security Board and North Carolina Secretary of State Securities Division warned that Bitconnect was not registered to sell securities in their respective states.<a href="#cite_note-finder-1">[1]</a>

On January 17, 2018, Bitconnect shut down,<a href="#cite_note-Wieczner-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-finder-1">[1]</a> and BCC prices crashed by 92% immediately after.<a href="#cite_note-Fool-6">[6]</a> Bitconnect announced it would refund its loans.<a href="#cite_note-:0-7">[7]</a>

On January 31, 2018, a temporary restraining order froze Bitconnect's assets, expiring on February 13.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> However, Bitconnect as an entity never actually existed, so it is unclear what assets Bitconnect has (or ever had). An alleged India-region leader (one level below the founder) of Bitconnect, Divyesh Darji, was arrested in <a href="Delhi" title="Delhi">Delhi</a>, India, on August 18, 2018.<a href="#cite_note-zdnet_arrest-9">[9]</a> It is suspected that Darji is connected to well-known criminal entities involved in laundering so-called "<a href="Indian_black_money" title="Indian black money">Black Money</a>" after the Indian government's <a href="2016_Indian_banknote_demonetisation" title="2016 Indian banknote demonetisation">demonetization of the rupee</a>. In 2019, Darji was arrested and released on bail in connection with a similar scam called Regal Coin.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism_and_collapse">Criticism and collapse</h2></div>

Bitconnect was suspected of being a <a href="Ponzi_scheme" title="Ponzi scheme">Ponzi scheme</a><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> because of its <a href="Multilevel_marketing" class="mw-redirect" title="Multilevel marketing">multilevel marketing</a> structure and impossibly high payouts (1% daily compounded interest).<a href="#cite_note-Fool-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> Bitconnect interest fluctuated greatly with the <a href="Volatility_(finance)" title="Volatility (finance)">volatility</a> of Bitcoin, which its value was tied to.

The Bitconnect Coin was among the world's top 20 most successful cryptocurrency tokens<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> until its price collapsed after traders began losing confidence. BCC rose from a post-ICO price of $0.17 to an all-time high of US$463 in December 2017; it declined to US$0.40 as of March 11, 2019. Bitconnect released outstanding loans at US$363.62 to the Bitconnect <a href="Cryptocurrency_wallet" title="Cryptocurrency wallet">Wallet</a> in the form of BCC. However, soon after that news the internal exchange price and liquidity collapsed resulting in a nearly complete loss of value.<a href="#cite_note-:0-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_issues">Legal issues</h2></div>

On January 16, 2018, Bitconnect announced it would shut down its cryptocurrency exchange and lending operation after regulators from <a href="Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> and <a href="North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a> issued a cease and desist order against it.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg-17">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> On January 31, 2018, a U.S. District Court, Western District of Kentucky, granted a temporary restraining order freezing Bitconnect's assets and "to disclose cryptocurrency wallet and trading account addresses, as well as the identities of anyone to whom Bitconnect has sent digital currencies within the last 90 days".

In September 2021, the <a href="U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission</a> sued Bitconnect, alongside its founder Indian Satish Kumbhani, American Glenn Arcaro, who served as Bitconnect's lead national promoter in the United States from August 2017 to January 2018, and Future Money LTD, a company Arcaro created to lure into Bitconnect's lending program. The SEC alleged that Bitconnect defrauded U.S. investors a total of $2.4 billion.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a>

Parallel to SEC civil charges, the <a href="United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">United States Department of Justice</a> (DOJ) had initiated criminal charges against Arcaro. On September 1, 2021, Arcaro pleaded guilty of criminal charges pressed by the DOJ which includes conspiracy to commit wire fraud and criminal forfeiture.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> The DOJ also indicted Kumbhani on various federal charges in February 2022, including money laundering and fraud.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a>

On January 12, 2023, a federal district court in San Diego ordered that Arcaro pay $17 million in restitution to be distributed to approximately 800 victims. <a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> He also agreed to forfeit more than $24 million, which could also be used in the future to repay victims. <a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Internet_meme">Internet meme</h2></div>

On October 28, 2017, Bitconnect held its first (and only) annual ceremony in <a href="Pattaya" title="Pattaya">Pattaya</a>, Thailand. During the event, an investor named Carlos Matos from <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> gave an exuberant presentation and testimonial about the website, which included him intensely screaming "Bitconnect!" several times in a variety of registers;<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> this quickly became an <a href="Internet_meme" title="Internet meme">Internet meme</a>. Both the Internet meme and the questionable practices of Bitconnect were profiled by <a href="John_Oliver" title="John Oliver">John Oliver</a> and <a href="Keegan-Michael_Key" title="Keegan-Michael Key">Keegan-Michael Key</a> on the program <a href="Last_Week_Tonight" class="mw-redirect" title="Last Week Tonight">Last Week Tonight</a>.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bitconnect.co/">Official website</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181128120223/http://bitconnect.co/">last archived version, 28 November 2018</a>)</li></ul>

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<li><a href="Brave_(web_browser)#Basic_Attention_Token" title="Brave (web browser)">Basic Attention Token</a></li>

<li><a href="Chainlink_(blockchain_oracle)" title="Chainlink (blockchain oracle)">Chainlink</a></li>

<li><a href="KodakCoin" title="KodakCoin">KodakCoin</a></li>

<li><a href="Minds_(social_network)" title="Minds (social network)">Minds</a></li>

<li><a href="Polygon_(blockchain)" title="Polygon (blockchain)">Polygon</a></li>

<li><a href="Shiba_Inu_(cryptocurrency)" title="Shiba Inu (cryptocurrency)">Shiba Inu</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Stablecoin" title="Stablecoin">Stablecoins</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Terra_(blockchain)" title="Terra (blockchain)">Terra</a></li>

<li><a href="Tether_(cryptocurrency)" title="Tether (cryptocurrency)">Tether</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Meme_coins" class="mw-redirect" title="Meme coins">Meme coins</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="%24CHILLGUY" class="mw-redirect" title="$CHILLGUY">Chill Guy</a></li>

<li><a href="Coinye" title="Coinye">Coinye</a></li>

<li><a href="Dogecoin" title="Dogecoin">Dogecoin</a></li>

<li><a href="LGBcoin" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBcoin">LGBcoin</a></li>

<li><a href="%24Libra" class="mw-redirect" title="$Libra">Libra</a></li>

<li><a href="%24Melania" class="mw-redirect" title="$Melania">Melania</a></li>

<li><a href="Pawthereum" title="Pawthereum">Pawthereum</a></li>

<li><a href="%24Trump" title="$Trump">Trump</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other currencies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Filecoin" title="Filecoin">Filecoin</a></li>

<li><a href="Hashgraph" class="mw-redirect" title="Hashgraph">HBAR (Hashgraph)</a></li>

<li><a href="Helium_Network" title="Helium Network">Helium</a></li>

<li><a href="MobileCoin" title="MobileCoin">MobileCoin</a></li>

<li><a href="SafeMoon" title="SafeMoon">SafeMoon</a></li>

<li><a href="Stellar_(payment_network)" title="Stellar (payment network)">Stellar</a></li>

<li><a href="WhopperCoin" title="WhopperCoin">WhopperCoin</a></li>

<li><a href="XRP_Ledger" title="XRP Ledger">XRP Ledger</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_cryptocurrencies#Inactive_currencies" title="List of cryptocurrencies">Inactive currencies</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul>

<li><a href="Coinye" title="Coinye">Coinye</a></li>

<li><a href="KodakCoin" title="KodakCoin">KodakCoin</a></li>

<li><a href="OneCoin" title="OneCoin">OneCoin</a></li>

<li><a href="Petro_(token)" title="Petro (token)">Petro</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Crypto service companies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Hyperledger" title="Hyperledger">Hyperledger</a></li>

<li><a href="Quahl" title="Quahl">Initiative Q</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related topics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="%24Libra_cryptocurrency_scandal" title="$Libra cryptocurrency scandal">$Libra cryptocurrency scandal</a></li>

<li><a href="2023_United_States_banking_crisis" title="2023 United States banking crisis">2023 United States banking crisis</a></li>

<li><a href="Airdrop_(cryptocurrency)" title="Airdrop (cryptocurrency)">Airdrop</a></li>

<li><a href="Bitcoin_in_El_Salvador" title="Bitcoin in El Salvador">Bitcoin in El Salvador</a></li>

<li><a href="BitLicense" title="BitLicense">BitLicense</a></li>

<li><a href="Blockchain_game" title="Blockchain game">Blockchain game</a></li>

<li><a href="Complementary_currency" title="Complementary currency">Complementary currency</a></li>

<li><a href="Crypto-anarchy" title="Crypto-anarchy">Crypto-anarchy</a></li>

<li><a href="Cryptocurrencies_in_Europe" title="Cryptocurrencies in Europe">Cryptocurrencies in Europe</a></li>

<li><a href="Cryptocurrencies_in_Puerto_Rico" title="Cryptocurrencies in Puerto Rico">Cryptocurrencies in Puerto Rico</a></li>

<li><a href="Cryptocurrency_bubble" title="Cryptocurrency bubble">Cryptocurrency bubble</a></li>

<li><a href="Cryptocurrency_in_Australia" title="Cryptocurrency in Australia">Cryptocurrency in Australia</a></li>

<li><a href="Cryptocurrency_in_Nigeria" title="Cryptocurrency in Nigeria">Cryptocurrency in Nigeria</a></li>

<li>Cryptocurrency scams</li>

<li><a href="Digital_currency" title="Digital currency">Digital currency</a></li>

<li><a href="Decentralized_autonomous_organization" title="Decentralized autonomous organization">Decentralized autonomous organization</a></li>

<li><a href="Decentralized_application" title="Decentralized application">Decentralized application</a></li>

<li><a href="Distributed_ledger_technology_law" title="Distributed ledger technology law">Distributed ledger technology law</a></li>

<li><a href="Double-spending" title="Double-spending">Double-spending</a></li>

<li><a href="Environmental_impact_of_bitcoin" title="Environmental impact of bitcoin">Environmental impact</a></li>

<li><a href="Initial_coin_offering" title="Initial coin offering">Initial coin offering</a></li>

<li><a href="Initial_exchange_offering" title="Initial exchange offering">Initial exchange offering</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_cryptocurrencies" title="List of cryptocurrencies">List of cryptocurrencies</a></li>

<li><a href="Non-fungible_token" title="Non-fungible token">Non-fungible token</a></li>

<li><a href="Token_money" title="Token money">Token money</a></li>

<li><a href="Strategic_bitcoin_reserve_(United_States)" title="Strategic bitcoin reserve (United States)">United States Strategic Bitcoin Reserve</a></li>

<li><a href="Virtual_currency" title="Virtual currency">Virtual currency</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>

<ul><li> Category</li>

<li> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cryptocurrency" class="extiw external" title="commons:Category:Cryptocurrency">Commons</a></li>

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