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BitConnect founder indicted over $2.4B Ponzi scheme has vanished: SEC

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7 March, 2022

BitConnect founder indicted over $2.4B Ponzi scheme has vanished: SEC

The U.S. securities regulator says Satish Kumbhani can’t be located and has likely relocated from his homeland India to an...

Block’s BTC focus is just another Jack Dorsey power grab

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Steven Stradbrooke

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2 March, 2022

Block’s BTC focus is just another Jack Dorsey power grab

Jack Dorsey’s digital payments company Block (formerly Square) is generating tons of BTC-related revenue but channeling only a tiny portion...

BitConnect founder indicted over $2.4B Ponzi scheme, faces 70 years in prison

Business

Steve Kaaru

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2 March, 2022

BitConnect founder indicted over $2.4B Ponzi scheme, faces 70 years in prison

A San Diego court charged Satish Kumbhani with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit commodity price manipulation, and international money laundering.

Editorial

Patrick Thompson

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1 March, 2022

BTC is digital gold?

The truth is, BTC does not do a majority of the things that it's marketed to do, and now that...

BitConnect victims can proceed with lawsuit vs scam’s promoters, appeals court rules

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Steve Kaaru

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25 February, 2022

BitConnect victims can proceed with lawsuit vs scam’s promoters, appeals court rules

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned an earlier judgment which threw out the class-action lawsuit against the promoters as...

BitMEX founders admit Bank Secrecy Act violations, pay $20M fines

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Steven Stradbrooke

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25 February, 2022

BitMEX founders admit Bank Secrecy Act violations, pay $20M fines

Arthur Hayes and Benjamin Delo, co-founders of the BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange, have pled guilty to using their platform as a...

India: Authorities arrest 11 in $5.3M Ethereum scam

Business

Steve Kaaru

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23 February, 2022

India: Authorities arrest 11 in $5.3M Ethereum scam

The authorities arrested the leaders of Ether Trade Asia, which lured investors to its Ether investment funds and then made...

BTC’s ‘CoinPool’—scaling solution or fancy coin mixer?

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Jon Southurst

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23 February, 2022

BTC’s ‘CoinPool’—scaling solution or fancy coin mixer?

CoinPool promotes itself as a way to increase "coin onboarding and transactional scaling by orders of magnitude," but in reality,...

Coinbase, Kraken CEOs’ tough talk holding back digital currency adoption

Business

Steven Stradbrooke

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22 February, 2022

Coinbase, Kraken CEOs’ tough talk holding back digital currency adoption

The CEOs of cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Kraken may find out the hard way that there’s a price to be...

FCA concerned about Binance’s backdoor re-entry into UK payments network

Business

Steve Kaaru

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21 February, 2022

FCA concerned about Binance’s backdoor re-entry into UK payments network

Binance announced a partnership with Paysafe that once again gives it access to the U.K. payments network, having lost it...

Bitfinex hack: One-half of NYC couple accused in $4.5B laundering case released on bail

Business

Steve Kaaru

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17 February, 2022

Bitfinex hack: One-half of NYC couple accused in $4.5B laundering case released on bail

Judge Beryl Howell has revoked the bond which had been granted to Ilya Lichtenstein, agreeing with prosecutors that he was...

Binance: Embattled exchange finds itself under more scrutiny in US—this time with SEC

Business

Jordan Atkins

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17 February, 2022

Binance: Embattled exchange finds itself under more scrutiny in US—this time with SEC

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into Binance.US over its relationship with two trading firms said...

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