2020-1-18 21:56 |
Cointelegraph recaps three days in the hearing before India’s Supreme Court on the country’s crypto ban
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India’s supreme court heard the crypto case in detail over three consecutive days this week. In addition to intense arguments against the central bank having the power to ban crypto, the judges learned how other countries regulate this new sector, the amended EU directive, the FATF guidance, and less invasive crypto measures.
2020-1-18 10:35 | |
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Three class action lawsuits alleging Bitfinex and Tether manipulated the bitcoin market have been combined in federal court, with the stablecoin issuer promising to fight the claims.
2020-1-18 01:05 | |
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Matthew Goettsche, Jobadiah Weeks, and Joseph Abel have all been charged with fraud by US District Court prosecutors regarding their cryptocurrency company, BitClub Network. The three men allegedly used the company as a Ponzi scheme to defraud investors of $722 million.
2019-12-12 16:10 | |
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A U.S. court has ruled that three Telegram employees - including CEO Pavel Durov - should testify in the case filed against the company by the Securities Exchange Commission.
2019-12-5 20:00 | |
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The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York indicted Oz Yosef, an executive at Crypto Capital, on three criminal counts. According to an October 23 court filing, Oz Yosef was indicted by US...
2019-10-28 10:04 | |
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Following fraud allegations from Bitfinex, Crypto Capital exec Oz Yosef has been charged with three criminal counts in a U.S. court
2019-10-28 01:02 | |
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A father and daughter have received a combined prison sentence of eight years after selling drugs in exchange for Bitcoin on the dark web. Brittany Nicole Green, sentenced to five years, and her father Gregory, who will spend three years behind bars, ran a mail-order drug operation from their home in Billings (Montana).
2019-10-4 12:51 | |
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As Wyoming rises to stand as one of the most pro-crypto and pro-blockchain jurisdictions, three of the most prominent figures in the State, Caitlin Long, Trace Mayer and Tyler Lindholm featured on Peter McCormack’s podcast to share some of the latest developments.
2019-9-30 08:00 | |
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After the arrest of Konstantin Ignatova, brother to the highly sought-after CEO of OneCoin, those who fell for the scam are already in court. One of them, believed to have lost more than $700,000 in the scam, has filed a lawsuit, suing the Ponzi scheme.
2019-7-11 17:43 | |
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Last year, India’s top court ruled that the central government’s national identification system – Aadhaar – doesn’t violate the privacy of citizens. Now, there are three major developments on this front that might put privacy activists on high alert.
2019-7-5 16:08 | |
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The man who claims to have invented Bitcoin, Craig Wright, will be appearing in court on Friday, June 28 in West Palm Beach, Florida for an evidentiary hearing. According to recently filed documents in the Kleiman v.
2019-6-28 02:55 | |
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Less than a year ago, Homero Joshua Garza was sentenced to 21 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay restitution of over $9 million by the U.
2019-6-26 01:30 | |
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Malaysia’s securities commission has begun registering cryptocurrency exchanges after it started regulating the crypto space earlier this year. The first three crypto trading platform operators have been conditionally approved and given nine months to comply with registration requirements.
2019-6-5 09:10 | |
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October 1, 2018, marked five years since I was imprisoned. My physical surroundings today are ironically similar to what they were after my arrest back in 2013. I’m in the SHU again (Special Housing Unit, aka “the hole”).
2019-5-29 22:50 | |
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A week-long ban of popular social video creation app TikTok in India has been reversed, according to a report by Reuters, citing two lawyers involved in the case. The Android and iOS apps, however, are yet to return to Apple and Google’s app stores.
2019-4-25 15:02 | |
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A 37 year-old man in the US has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for fraud in connection with a Bitcoin phishing scheme designed to rob victims of their cryptocurrency. Michael Richo, of New Haven, was also ordered to forfeit $352,000 in cash, various computers and electronic devices, and an assortment of precious coins and metals that he purchased with the proceeds of his offense.
2019-4-10 12:28 | |
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Bitcoin is not as anonymous as you might think. A Danish man has been handed a prison sentence after using the digital currency for ill-gotten gains. The 33-year old has been sentenced to four years and three months after pleading guilty to laundering dirty Bitcoin, a local police report states.
2019-4-8 16:33 | |
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It’s shaping up to be a rough day for Elon Musk. Shares at his Tesla were down sharply this morning on horrific Q1 delivery numbers. Those numbers came out as the CEO readies to learn his faith resulting from being held in contempt of court for violating an agreement with the U.
2019-4-4 17:36 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published an investment contract framework for digital assets, which is intended to give crypto companies guidance as to whether a cryptocurrency is a security.
2019-4-4 22:02 | |
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One of the operators of BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange and leading suspect in multi-billion money laundering scandal, Alexander Vinnik, is seeking to be extradited to Russia from Greece rather than to the United States or France.
2019-3-23 21:40 | |
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As QuadrigaCX’s legal counsel descends on the courtroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for another round of legal proceedings, the court monitor’s third report on QuadrigaCX’s finances — specifically its revelation that the exchange’s cold wallets are empty — lays out some hopeful avenues for fund recovery — and some frustrating dead ends.
2019-3-5 20:20 | |
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QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.
2019-2-26 22:21 | |
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A group of lawyers from some of Canada’s top law firms convened in a court in Halifax, Nova Scotia, today to secure the right to represent creditors in the ongoing QuadrigaCX litigation.
2019-2-15 01:45 | |
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For those QuadrigaCX users who were fortunate enough to have withdrawal requests honored, some appear to have received their funds through unconventional means. An anonymous QuadrigaCX user who corresponded with Bitcoin Magazine said that they received a bank deposit from Robertson Nova Consulting Inc.
2019-2-15 20:28 | |
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According to the latest court documents in the ongoing QuadrigaCX case, the exchange sent roughly $470,000 CAD (approximately $355, 000 USD) worth of bitcoin from a hot wallet to a cold-storage wallet on February 6, 2019.
2019-2-13 03:56 | |
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The court filing is the latest in a high-profile lawsuit that has pitted three high-profile cryptocurrency industry personalities and business partners against each other.
2019-2-8 06:30 | |
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Shares in debt-laden Reliance Communications (RCom) fell close to 50% on Monday as the Anil Ambani-owned company announced that it would seek bankruptcy protection from India’s insolvency tribunal.
2019-2-5 15:57 | |
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It’s a case that has dragged on for over three years, and one that is highly polarizing. A Florida bitcoin trader is set to stand trial by jury for felony charges after a judge overturned an earlier ruling.
2019-2-1 17:35 | |
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According to Elections Canada, the agency that runs federal elections in Canada, there has been “a growing interest” in cryptocurrency donations. This trend has prompted some political parties to ask for a ruling on how best to manage bitcoin and other cryptocurrency political donations and how to navigate the various reporting systems required by both Elections Canada and the parties so that they comply with the Canada Elections Act.
2019-1-24 20:28 | |
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Swedish Man Linus Dunkers has filed a court case after being charged $885,000 in tax for Cryptocurrency trading. An amount he says is over three times all the profit he made, as per a report from SVT January 20, 2019.
2019-1-23 09:59 | |
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On January 17, 2019, two former executives from Komid, a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, were jailed for three and two years respectively for using fake accounts to fraudulently inflate transactions on the exchange.
2019-1-22 22:00 | |
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The Stock Exchange of Thailand is reportedly planning to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. The securities companies that are members of the exchange will also apply for cryptocurrency broker-dealer licenses with the country’s regulator.
2019-1-18 11:32 | |
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This is the third instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 and on Day 2.
2019-1-18 00:05 | |
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Thailand has officially granted licenses to three cryptocurrency exchanges and one broker-dealer. Two exchanges have been rejected and one is still being reviewed. These seven companies have been temporarily allowed to operate in the country.
2019-1-10 15:20 | |
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Thailand has officially granted licenses to three cryptocurrency exchanges and one broker-dealer. Two exchanges have been rejected and one is still being reviewed. These seven companies have been temporarily allowed to operate in the country.
2019-1-9 15:20 | |
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Japanese public company Money Forward, operator of a personal budgeting app with 7 million users, is preparing to launch a crypto exchange. Three cryptocurrencies will be supported. A representative of the company has shared some details with news.
2018-12-5 11:20 | |
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A U. S. district judge has denied the motion filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against cryptocurrency company Blockvest and its founder. The SEC failed to show the court that Blockvest’s tokens are securities.
2018-12-2 04:20 | |
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The Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network hosts several podcasts for regular discussion topics in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency, including the popular weekly show What Bitcoin Did.
2018-11-20 22:58 | |
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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 | |
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“Not Guilty” Plea in Money-Laundering Case Involving a $24 Million Bitcoin Theft According to the Bangkok Post, the three Jaravijit siblings that are accused of money laundering chargers – Prinya, Supitcha, and Jiratpisit – have decided to plead “not guilty.
2018-11-8 06:41 | |
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The Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA) has recently affirmed that cryptocurrencies, specifically bitcoin and several of its hard forks, are considered legal property and Chinese citizens have a right to own and transfer them.
2018-10-27 19:22 | |
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A lawsuit claiming damages of $152 million involving Augur, a cryptocurrency betting platform for predicting real-world events, has been reportedly settled off-court. As for now, San Francisco county court records show the case as dismissed.
2018-10-18 13:00 | |
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The number of blockchain-related companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein has doubled in the last year, according to a new study published by CV VC. The Zug-based firm, in partnership with Strategy& (PwC’s global consulting arm) and inacta, compiled information about the top 50 blockchain and digital asset companies between the two countries.
2018-10-11 00:18 | |
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A Chinese court has sentenced a local resident to three and a half years in prison and a fine of about $14,500 for stealing power from a train network to run his Bitcoin mining gig.
2018-10-9 14:38 | |
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Cryptocurrencies are commodities, according to four court cases involving the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). A federal judge recently ruled that a token is a commodity, certifying the CFTC’s authority to prosecute fraud and manipulation in the crypto space.
2018-10-5 02:27 | |
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Industry buzz surrounded Ethereum this week as community members await the next stage of the coin’s development. The protocol also served as the jumping-off point for a new fully regulated stablecoin.
2018-9-16 18:41 | |
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A year-old legal battle between two of the crypto industry’s leading organizations is coming to a close. After a volley of countersuits that had the companies jumping from courthouse to courthouse, Ripple and R3 have brokered a settlement that will put the drama to rest.
2018-9-12 21:26 | |
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A campaign to raise awareness that XRP is not Ripple, three court cases and a race to meet SEC decentralization requirements for endorsement is obviously exposing XRP and cushioning Ripple the company.
2018-7-11 03:04 | |
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It’s been a gloomy week for the crypto community in India. After three months of waiting for the Supreme Court to make a ruling on the petitions against the RBI’s directive in April, it finally happened on July 3.
2018-7-7 00:00 | |
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