2019-8-14 17:45 |
Investors suing Ripple have started citing the SEC’s token guidance to back their claim that XRP is an unregistered security.
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2019-8-14 17:45 |
Investors suing Ripple have started citing the SEC’s token guidance to back their claim that XRP is an unregistered security.
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Coinspeaker Ripple Faces Another Lawsuit from Investors Claiming XRP Is an Unregistered SecurityRipple continues to face the ire of the investors who claim that XRP is "unlawful securities" under the SEC's guidelines of the Howey Test.
2019-8-14 14:07 | |
A class action suit has appealed to SEC guidelines to make its case that Ripple sold XRP as an unregistered security
2019-8-14 23:38 | |
Following the announcement of a lawsuit by SEC for offering an unregistered security in 2017, the Kin token has dropped some 30%. It fell today to $0.000025, close to all...
2019-6-6 17:12 | |
U. S. citizen Morgan Rockcoons has been sentenced to fines and prison time for running unlicensed money exchange services on LocalBitcoins. Advertising himself on the peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network, Rockcoons made more than 1,000 transactions with hundreds of different users.
2019-6-1 18:55 | |
Rumors of an SEC crackdown are flying after Poloniex said it will delist nine crypto tokens including DCR for trading to U. S. customers. No Longer Available to U. S. Cryptocurrency Traders Poloniex has announced that it will no longer offer nine cryptocurrency tokens for trading to U.
2019-5-17 14:00 | |
Stephen Palley, a prominent lawyer in the crypto community posted a tweet thread detailing the Federal Class Action lawsuit which Atonomi Token was facing for the alleged sale of an unregistered security.
2019-4-27 12:30 | |
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau within the U. S. Department of the Treasury, has imposed its first-ever penalty on a peer-to-peer crypto exchange for violating AML regulations, among other violations.
2019-4-20 23:38 | |
The folks at ATB Coin asked a New York judge to dismiss a case brought against them by those who invested in the company's initial coin offering (ICO). The judge denied the request based on an established presence in New York and the argument that the ICO indeed qualified as an unregistered security offering.
2019-4-10 18:39 | |
Lawyer Stephen D. Palley has an interesting write-up at the Block about how a federal judge has ruled that ATB Coin was an unregistered security even if the token didn’t entitle buyers to profits.
2019-4-4 04:30 | |
On March 9–10, 2019, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a two-day event, the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019. Put together by the student-organized MIT Bitcoin Club, the conference welcomed more than just Bitcoin voices from every corner of the industry.
2019-3-15 01:08 | |
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has agreed to terms of a settlement with the crypto start-up Gladius Network LLC the SEC announced Wednesday. Charges included running an unregistered security offering within the U.
2019-2-21 00:01 | |
In a dramatic turnaround for one of 2017’s most egregious ICO projects, ParagonCoin (PRG) – recently fined $250k by the SEC for selling an unregistered security, and ordered to repay its investors – has cracked the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization and is now worth over half a billion dollars.
2019-1-1 18:01 | |
You know what is a similarity between oceans and crypto market? Oceans are full of garbage, so is the crypto market. Sea of garbage coins is getting cleaned, mostly thanks to the fear of regulatory retaliation for their unregistered token sales which equate to unregistered security selling in the eyes of authorities.
2018-12-20 01:25 | |
The new TenX token will only be available to users outside the US to avoid unregistered security violation.
2018-12-12 12:08 | |
On November 27, 2018, a California judge turned back the SEC’s request for an injunction against token company BlockVest, a company the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing for allegedly conducting an unregistered securities offering.
2018-12-1 22:36 | |
Crypto markets continued to plunge, shortly after the start of a government crackdown on what has been described as the financial Wild West… Initial Coin Offerings. Ethereum (ETH) has reached an all-year low of $155, plunging 37% over the course of the past seven days.
2018-11-19 19:18 | |
SALT, one of the booming post-ICO digital assets, has fallen to $0.45, and is pressured by news of another SEC investigation on the sector.
2018-11-16 16:55 | |
Ripple’s legal team in their ongoing securities suit is attempting a new tack: to have the claim proceed at the federal level. In a move that legal commentator Jake Chervinsky described as “seriously crafty,” Ripple has filed a formal notice-of-removal motion to have their most recent securities suit, Zakinov et al v.
2018-11-14 00:41 | |
The U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a press release on Friday, November 9, 2018, stating that it had fined Arizona resident Joseph Kim for perpetrating a fraudulent cryptocurrency trading scheme against his former employer and other investors.
2018-11-13 22:55 | |
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused Zachary Coburn, the founder of decentralized EtherDelta exchange, of operating an unregistered stock exchange. He was fined of $388,000.
2018-11-9 10:57 | |
The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained an emergency court order issuing the stoppage of a recently planned initial coin offering (ICO) by Blockvest LLC and its founder Reginald Buddy Ringgold III, who falsely advertised that the token sale was approved by the SEC.
2018-10-12 01:12 | |
In what it deems a first for both enforcement actions, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is charging two entities with registration failures.
2018-9-12 23:36 | |
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a non-profit watchdog for public brokerage firms in the U. S. , has had its first run-in with the cryptocurrency industry.
2018-9-12 21:15 | |
Colorado is getting serious in its drive to weed out potential bad players in the crypto scene. The Division of Securities of Colorado’s Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), via its ICO Task Force, is currently investigating three firms for promoting unregistered initial coin offerings (ICOs).
2018-9-4 16:19 | |
XRP, the native currency to the Ripple project and no doubt the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s’ (SEC) worst enemy (after the Bitcoin ETF of course). The problem with XRP is that within the US, a number of people are taking Ripple to court for dealing an unregistered security (XRP), but, nobody is able to define whether or not XRP is actually a security, therefore the SEC are left in limbo.
2018-8-23 15:30 | |
Ripple Labs, the team behind Ripple and of course, XRP have made way in their legal battle after reports suggest they have won one of the court cases that is currently forcing Ripple and XRP into a temporary hibernation.
2018-8-15 17:30 | |
Ripple’s legal proceedings have been relatively quiet of late, we can only expect that this is as a result of Ripple’s legal representatives paying heavy attention to PR and to damage control surrounding the XRP security saga.
2018-8-9 16:30 | |
Linda healthcare corporation is facing a “cease and desist” scenario. Gerald Rome, the commissioner of Colorado securities issued this official order to Arturo Devesa, founder of Linda healthcare corp.
2018-8-7 03:55 | |
Colorado Securities Commissioner, Gerald Rome, has issued a cease and desist order to Florida based Linda Healthcare Corporation and its founder, Arturo Devesa, halting the company’s initial coin offering (ICO) due to the token sale being deemed an offering of an unregistered security.
2018-8-2 06:50 | |
According to Bloomberg, Jon E. Montroll from Saginaw, Texas is facing up to 20 years in prison for stealing thousands of Bitcoins from customer funds, running an unregistered securities exchange, and lying to US security regulators after his cryptocurrency exchange, BitFunder, was hacked.
2018-7-26 23:20 | |
According to Bloomberg, Jon E. Montroll from Saginaw, Texas is facing up to 20 years in prison for stealing thousands of Bitcoins from customer funds, running an unregistered securities exchange, and lying to US security regulators after his cryptocurrency exchange, BitFunder, was hacked.
2018-7-24 18:15 | |
Ripple, the company, continues to have many moving parts, including further implementations of enterprise solutions, distancing itself from the XRP token, and dealing with claims that the XRP token represents an unregistered security.
2018-7-13 07:25 | |
There are still some concerns as to whether or not Ripple’s XRP will be labeled a security. The SEC has not yet rendered its verdict in this regard. Another lawsuit has been filed against the founder of Ripple Labs, alleging that the defendants broke state and federal securities laws by selling the unregistered XRP asset. […]
2018-7-6 19:00 | |
Ripple is staring down the barrel of yet another securities lawsuit — its third one this year. Filed in the Superior Court of the State of California in San Mateo County, the class action alleges that Ripple and its team illegally sold and promoted XRP, Ripple’s currency, as an unregistered security.
2018-7-5 23:14 | |