2024-3-6 23:55 |
In another example of crypto using the courts to fight back against unwarranted regulatory interference, blockchain advocates stopped a U.S. statistics agency from issuing an “emergency” request for mining energy metrics. origin »
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A quick summary of an ongoing hearing in Waco, Texas where the Texas Blockchain Council and Riot Platforms, Inc. are seeking a restraining order temporarily blocking the EIA emergency survey.
2024-2-24 22:15 | |
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Securities regulators in Texas and Alabama have accused a group of companies tied to a metaverse real estate project of fraudulently raising millions from investors. The Texas State Securities Board last week issued an emergency cease and desist order against GS Partners, Swiss Valorem Bank, and several related entities controlled by Josip Heit.
2023-11-17 00:55 | |
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Balancer, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol operating on the Ethereum blockchain, has recently disclosed a critical vulnerability impacting several of their V2 Pools. While emergency measures have been implemented successfully to safeguard a significant portion of Total Value Locked (TVL), a portion of funds remains at risk.
2023-8-23 19:58 | |
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According to a June 17, 2023 press release, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has secured emergency relief against Binance Holdings Limited. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao also agreed to repatriate to the United States (US) all assets for Binance.
2023-6-20 22:42 | |
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The Texas State Securities Board filed an emergency cease and desist order on June 15 against the cryptocurrency lending firm Abra. In its order, the regulator said, based on its investigations, it found that Abra and related parties committed fraud and made misleading statements.
2023-6-16 00:27 | |
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The SEC just dropped a bombshell on Binance. US, the American arm of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. The regulator filed an emergency action application against Binance. US to freeze its assets, as part of the regulator’s recent crackdown on the crypto exchange.
2023-6-7 18:00 | |
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Following the increased regulatory oversight over the crypto industry, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order against Binance Holdings Limited, BAM Trading Services, BAM Management US Holdings, and Changpeng Zhao.
2023-6-7 00:05 | |
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Texas Authorities have issued an emergency cease and desist order against an alleged AI crypto scam endorsed by Elon Musk, Changpeng Zhao, and Vitalik Buterin. The post AI Crypto Scam Endorsed by Elon Musk Faces Texas Crackdown appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-5-4 12:46 | |
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The planned $1 billion sale of Voyager Digital to Binance. US has hit a speed bump as a federal judge granted the United States government’s request for an emergency stay. The move comes after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a lawsuit against Binance’s global entity for allegedly allowing U.
2023-3-28 15:11 | |
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MakerDAO reveals an emergency proposal to reinforce its platform against stablecoin risks. USDC de-pegging inadvertently triggers demand for MKR. MakerDAO is making moves aimed at protectingThe post MakerDAO [MKR] reacts to Stablecoin contagion with this proposal appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2023-3-12 10:30 | |
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Another day, another SEC enforcement action. The U.S. securities watchdog has just filed an emergency action against Miami-based investment adviser BKCoin in connection with an alleged $100 million fraud scheme.
2023-3-7 14:53 | |
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Coinspeaker SEC Levies Charges Against BKCoin Management for Commingling Users’ Funds The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed an emergency action against Miami Investment Adviser, BKCoin Management LLC.
2023-3-7 12:21 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues its enforcement actions against the crypto industry, filing an emergency action against Miami-based crypto hedge fund BKCoin and its principal Kevin Kang.
2023-3-7 02:16 | |
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The US SEC has filed an emergency action against BKCoin Management LLC and its principal, Kevin Kang, for allegedly orchestrating a $100 million crypto fraud scheme.
2023-3-7 22:31 | |
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was granted emergency relief by a Florida court on Monday to freeze and appoint a receiver for the assets of Miami-based crypto hedge fund BKCoin and one of its co-founders, Kevin Kang.
2023-3-7 20:43 | |
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The US SEC filed an emergency action against a crypto hedge fund alledging crypto fraud The commission claims that the firm and its former co-founder misappropriated investor funds The UniteThe post US SEC freezes assets of BKCoin for orchestrating crypto fraud scheme appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2023-3-7 20:10 | |
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Terra’s CEO, Do Kwon, reappeared early Wednesday to present an emergency plan to save UST and LUNA. To protect against network governance attacks, the business proposes burning all UST in the community pool, burning the remaining 371 million UST cross-chain on Ethereum, and stakeing 240 million LUNA. Terra Plans To Save LUNA And UST The […]
2022-5-13 16:40 | |
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Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau invoked a country-wide Emergency Act against the Ottawa trucker convoy. The Emergency Act criminalizes many things, among them; financing the protestors. To enforce the rule, the government has full authority to freeze bank and crypto trading accounts suspected of aiding the truckers.
2022-2-22 05:00 | |
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Cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network has now received an emergency cease and desist order from Kentucky’s securities regulator over its “Earn Interest Accounts. ” On Thursday, Kentucky joined three other states, including Alabama, New Jersey, and Texas, that last week took similar actions.
2021-9-24 18:25 | |
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The U. S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) takes action against alleged crypto fraud perpetrated by Profit Connect Wealth Services Inc Through an emergency action filing, the U. S securities regulator obtained a temporary restraining order and froze the company’s assets in a bid to stop Profit Connect from operating.
2021-7-21 04:00 | |
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The Texas State Securities Board has entered an emergency cease and desist order against a shape-shifting, fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme using the Binance brand to lure investors.
2021-3-17 12:43 | |
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United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced that it obtained an order imposing an "asset freeze and other emergency relief" against Virgil Capital LLC in connection with an The post US SEC acquires order imposing asset freeze against Virgil Capital appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-12-29 23:00 | |
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Stefan Qin, the 23-year-old founder of Virgil Capital, has been accused by the SEC of “fabricated records” for failing to redeem $3.5 million in investments and attempting to withdraw $1.7 million in investor funds to pay off Chinese loan sharks.
2020-12-29 20:20 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit against a cryptocurrency hedge fund founder for fraud. The regulator is seeking an emergency order freezing $25 million in digital assets held by a crypto hedge fund he controls.
2020-12-27 01:30 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced emergency action against a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment fund operated by Sean Hvizdzak and Shane Hvizdzak. Fraudulent Investment Fund Between July 2019 and May... The post SEC Shuts Down Another Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Fund appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-6-20 23:13 | |
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The Texas State Securities Board and Alabama Securities Commission filed an emergency action against Ultra Mining, alleging it offered unregistered securities by promising to double investments in a cloud mining scheme.
2020-4-9 20:00 | |
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Yesterday (March 24), the Whitehouse unveiled a new emergency stimulus package to cushion the US economy against the coronavirus pandemic. According to White House’s top economic advisor Larry Kudlow, the bailout package is expected to come to roughly $6 trillion.
2020-3-26 21:30 | |
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The Federal Reserve’s emergency interest rate cut this week highlighted that the central bank is anticipating the troubled times ahead. Raoul Pai, the CEO of Real Vision Group, says Bitcoin, like gold, is emerging as a worthy hedge against the potential demise of the dollar.
2020-3-7 01:00 | |
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Yesterday, the US Federal Reserve announced an emergency cut of 50 basis points for the first time since the 2008 recession. Although the stock market initially climbed up on the news, it soon fell.
2020-3-5 22:15 | |
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The U. S. Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by 50 bps on Tuesday citing concerns about the coronavirus outbreak against the bleak economy. The last time the central bank slashed rates by leveraging an “emergency rate shift” by half a percentage point was after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in 2008.
2020-3-4 16:20 | |
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According to an announcement made by Bitcoin IRA, a federal judge of the South Dakota district court has ordered against Kingdom Trust Company, while also granting Bitcoin IRA's request for emergency The post Bitcoin IRA claims victory after court rules against Kingdom Trust appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-11-15 15:00 | |
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New York District Court to Postpone TON’s Hearing to Next Year A court hearing at the Southern District Court of New York was booked for October 24, as SEC obtains an emergency restraining order on the issuance of Gram token which SEC itself proclaimed illicit.
2019-10-21 17:01 | |
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The upcoming launch of GRAM tokens has become somewhat of a spectacle for the cryptocurrency community in recent months. With final token disbursement on the horizon, the SEC has filed for emergency action against Telegram and Telegram Open Network (TON), both of whom are offshore entities to the United States.
2019-10-12 14:32 | |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] announced filing for emergency action and obtained a temporary restraining order against two offshore entities, Telegram Group, and its subsidiary TON Issuer for raising over $1.
2019-10-12 12:30 | |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained an emergency restraining order against the Telegram Group and its subsidiary TON Issuer. The order has been secured in order to investigate the company’s $1.7 billion...
2019-10-12 10:29 | |
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For more information like this, make sure to subscribe to ZeroNoncense's Telegram and follow them on Twitter. As noted in their previous post outlining the fundamentals of the press release by the SEC, the actual pdf for the order, which was submitted by the SEC to the Manhattan Supreme Court today can be found here: […]
2019-10-12 02:23 | |
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U.S. SEC orders emergency action against Telegram GRM offering
2019-10-13 00:10 | |
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The SEC has secured an emergency restraining order against Telegram's $1.7 billion token sale and issuance.
2019-10-12 00:08 | |
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Last week, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued an emergency lawsuit against Reginald Middleton and his two companies, Veritaseum LLC and Veritaseum Inc. , alleging Middleton had held a fraudulent ICO.
2019-8-20 19:14 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is ramping up its efforts to combat crypto fraud. The Commission filed an emergency legal action against the owner of Veritaseum, Reggie Middleton, whose ICO raised almost $15 million—obliterating the price of VERI.
2019-8-16 02:31 | |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed an emergency lawsuit against "financial guru" Reginald Middleton and his two companies, Veritaseum LLC and Veritaseum Inc., to safeguard $8 million of investor funds Middleton raised during an allegedly fraudulent initial coin offering.
2019-8-14 23:26 | |
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The SEC is seeking to freeze the assets of Reggie Middleton, organizer of the $14.8 million Veritaseum (VERI) ICO.
2019-8-14 20:10 | |
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking action against a New York-based individual in an attempt to safeguard investor funds that were raised through an allegedly fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO).
2019-8-13 15:34 | |
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A US state regulator is cracking down on two New Jersey-based initial coin offerings (ICO) offering “fraudulent unregistered securities. ” The Bureau of Securities issued emergency cease and desist orders as part of “Operation Cryptosweep” – an international crackdown on fraudulent ICOs and cryptocurrency-related investment schemes – against Zoptax LLC (also known as Zoptax) and Unocall.
2019-8-8 11:34 | |
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Travis J. Iles, the Securities Commissioner of Texas, isn’t taking any guff from a site called FxBitGlobe. Iles issued an “emergency” cease and desist order to FxBitGlobe, ordering them to quit attempting to do business with anyone in the great State of Texas.
2019-4-10 19:37 | |
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As the market continues to tumble (and mining profits have dwindled), Bitcoin’s mining difficulty dropped by its largest percentile in seven years — the second largest downward correction in the cryptocurrency’s lifetime.
2018-12-4 01:01 | |
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Jared Rice Sr. , CEO of the Dallas-based bank AriseBank, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, and charged with six counts of securities fraud and wire fraud.
2018-11-30 23:03 | |
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The Texas State Securities Board issued on November 27 an “Emergency Cease and Desist Order” against a cryptocurrency mining and trading business, dubbed My Crypto Mine. ‘My Crypto Mine’ Promised Insane Guaranteed Profits The California-based My Crypto Mine was allegedly offering unregistered securities tied to cryptocurrencies in the state of Texas.
2018-11-28 15:59 | |
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The Texas Securities Board pounces on two mining operations using social media and multilevel marketing to propagate a transnational web of “fraudulent crypto-mining programs”, Director of Enforcement Joseph Rotunda informs CryptoSlate.
2018-11-8 15:00 | |
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After the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) first attempt to survey crypto mining companies about their energy usage was kneecapped by a lawsuit, the department is getting ready to try again – but this time, it’s seeking input from crypto industry participants.
Congressional researchers detailed the current state of energy consumption related to cryptocurrency mining and potential regulations for the energy-intensive process.
The U.S. Department of Energy is offering funding of up to $4.8 million for fossil energy research, including blockchain applications.