{"id":173271,"date":"2026-06-01T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=173271"},"modified":"2026-06-01T08:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:30:02","slug":"the-bots-were-fake-sec-sues-privvy-founder-over-12-3-million-crypto-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=173271","title":{"rendered":"The Bots Were Fake: SEC Sues Privvy Founder Over $12.3 Million Crypto Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued a Texas entrepreneur it says raised $12.3 million from about 150 investors by promising profits from artificial-intelligence trading bots that did not exist. A \u201c Crypto Arbitrage\u201d Operation Built on a Lie According to a complaint filed on May 29, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued a Texas entrepreneur it says raised $12.3 million from about 150 investors by promising profits from artificial-intelligence trading bots that did not exist. A \u201c Crypto Arbitrage\u201d Operation Built on a Lie According to a complaint filed on May 29, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":173272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/173272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}