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Centra Tech
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'''Centra Tech''' is or was a company that sold $32 million of cryptocurrency in an [[Initial Coin Offering|initial coin offering (ICO)]] in 2017.  Two founders of the company, Sam Sharma and Robert Farkas, were arrested on Sunday, April 1, 2018 with federal charges including securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The following day the U.S. [[Securities and Exchange Commission]] filed a civil suit against Sharma (contracted; show full)

The main selling point of the ICO was that Centra had entered into a partnership with [[Visa Inc.]] to issue a debit card for cryptocurrencies.  That claim was denied by Visa.<ref name="SEC complaint"/><ref name="NYTimes10272017"/>

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