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Can Crypto’s Political Tailwinds Drive True Digital Asset Utility?
Can Crypto’s Political Tailwinds Drive True Digital Asset Utility?
May 23, 2024  |  Cryptocurrency

In the Bahamas, convicted cryptocurrency criminal Sam Bankman-Fried’s one-time penthouse is up for sale. Meanwhile, in the United States, the House of Representatives passed the Financial Innovation and Technology for...

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Banks Welcome Crypto Firms After Signature/Silvergate Downfall
Banks Welcome Crypto Firms After Signature/Silvergate Downfall
March 27, 2023  |  Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency firms left bankless following the downfall of two industry lenders have found new homes. That’s according to a Monday (March 27) report by the Wall Street...

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US Prosecutors Investigate Another Member of FTX Inner Circle 
US Prosecutors Investigate Another Member of FTX Inner Circle 
January 06, 2023  |  Cryptocurrency

U.S. prosecutors are reportedly investigating a third member of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle.  Prosecutors are investigating bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX’s former engineering director, Nishad Singh,...

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Senate Agriculture Committee To Grill U.S. Financial Regulator Over FTX
Senate Agriculture Committee To Grill U.S. Financial Regulator Over FTX
December 01, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

The first congressional inquiry into what went wrong at FTX is happening today (Dec. 1). In what is sure to be just one of many such hearings investigating the...

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Crypto Fight on Capitol Hill Increasingly Favors CFTC
Crypto Fight on Capitol Hill Increasingly Favors CFTC
August 03, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) appears to have won another round in its fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for control of...

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Crypto Regulation Weekly: SEC Targets Coinbase as CFTC Prepares to Take Lead
Crypto Regulation Weekly: SEC Targets Coinbase as CFTC Prepares to Take Lead
July 27, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Reports that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will sue publicly listed crypto exchange Coinbase for allegedly selling unregistered securities to the general public signal...

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CFTC’s Chair: Crypto and DeFi Have Outgrown Sandbox
CFTC’s Chair: Crypto and DeFi Have Outgrown Sandbox
July 26, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Rostin Benham believes that “digital assets and decentralized financial technologies have outgrown their sandboxes.” This is an interesting comment, given...

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CTFC Levels Charges In $147M Bitcoin Pyramid Scheme
CTFC Levels Charges In $147M Bitcoin Pyramid Scheme
June 18, 2019  |  Cryptocurrency

As bitcoin hovers around $9,100, as Libra may (or may not) give the marquee cryptocurrency a run for its virtual money, it’s worth noting what...

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