👨‍⚖️ Bitcoin trader pleads guilty over unlicensed exchange business

A 21-year-old bitcoin ($BTC) trader from California has pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmission business. According to a news release issued Monday by the Attorney's Office of the Southern District of California, the trader, Jacob Burrell Campos, reportedly sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin to over 1,000 customers throughout the U.S. from January 2015 to April 2016.

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