Argentine Financial Media Faces Backlash Over Cloud Mining Scam Advertisements

Argentine news portal Ámbito faced controversy between September 14 and 25, 2026, for publishing sponsored content promoting a cloud mining platform that promised unrealistic returns of up to $4,000 per day. The platform claimed to have 5 million users and 1% of the global hashrate without providing technical audits. The NGO Bitcoin Argentina denounced the advertisements as a potential scam and urged the media outlet to remove them, citing the mathematical impossibility of the promised 8% returns in 48 hours.