A federal court in New York ordered Gelfman Blueprint Inc. and its Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Gelfman to pay $2.5 million is what is the first anti-fraud enforcement action involving bitcoin BTCUSD, -0.35% filed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a CFTC press release said Thursday. The court orders said that between 2014 and Jan. 2016, Gelfman swindled more than $600,000 from at least 80 customers who were told their funds were part of an algorithmic trading strategy. "This case marks yet another victory for the Commission in the virtual currency enforcement arena," said James McDonald, director of enforcement at the CFTC.