I just posted an article from the Financial Times (London) in the Press section, which recycles the view that the recent Bitcoin price rise may have been fuelled by the Mavrodi scam, MMM, requiring or accepting payment in Bitcoin because its traditional avenues of fiat payments are being blocked by the banking system, in particular, in China.FT article (paywall, but a free read possible)Discussion already on BCTMMMA visit to china-mmm.net , the scam's home page, confirms my original view that Chinese payments are being denominated in fiat i.e. CNYuan, and also in other hot areas of the world, i.e. South Africa in Rand etc.etc.The purpose of this thread is to gain concrete examples and information regardingknowledge of payments being made to the Ponzi, or attempted payments being blocked.As anyone who actually knows anything about MMM will tell you, payments are peer to peer, with only Mavrodi's Magic Money shitcoin, Mavro traditionally involved (and the mechanism by which the scammers make their money).This is a self moderated thread. I don't like self moderated threads but I dislike sig spam even more. Any comments repeating previous answers or in any other way arousing my suspicions of shitposting either for sig or count, will be deleted. I wantplease, not hearsay or "I'ts disgusting" comments..thank you.

Since there has been note of it as one of the factors influencing Chinese Bitcoin exchanges on mainstream media I'll add a few side sources to get it started.Will need to look for first hand experiences as well but corroborating articles are always useful to get scale.Business Insider Article on Operator:As well as speculation on price riseInternational Business TimesLatin American Articles on MMM Global and Connections to BitcoinAndreas Tweet on itWarnings from BTCC and OKCOIN