2025-5-16 07:46 |
Ripple’s attempt to finalize a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been halted after a federal judge dismissed their joint request as procedurally flawed. The decision, issued by Judge Analisa Torres of the U.S. District Court for… origin »
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Samourai Wallet co-founders and U.S. prosecutors have asked a federal judge to delay court proceedings as they weigh a possible dismissal of the case. In an April 28 letter to Judge Richard Berman, Samourai Wallet defense attorneys said they had…
2025-4-29 11:29 | |
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has formally ended its legal battle with Hex founder Richard Schueler, widely known as Richard Heart. In a letter to New York District Court Judge Carol Bagley Amon, which Heart shared on X, the…
2025-4-23 11:36 | |
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A Florida federal court judge has approved an $11 million settlement between Shaquille O’Neal and Astrals NFT buyers, ending a class-action lawsuit over an alleged promotion of unregistered securities.
2025-4-9 12:27 | |
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Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal has been granted final court approval to settle a class-action lawsuit for $11 million with Astrals non-fungible token (NFT) buyers.
2025-4-9 06:40 | |
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Former South Korean lawmaker known for the Coin Gate scandal, Kim Nam-guk, has been declared ‘not guilty’ of all charges by court. According to a report from local media News1, a Seoul Southern District Court judge found Kim “not guilty”…
2025-2-11 13:42 | |
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James Howells lost his court battle against Newport City Council in January The judge ruled that there were “no reasonable grounds” for succeeding at a full trial Today, Howells’ Bitcoin would be worth around $780 million A UK landfill site where a man lost his hard drive containing 8,000 Bitcoin is reportedly set to close […] The post Bitcoin hard drive containing $780m lost forever as UK landfill site is set to close appeared first on CoinJournal.
2025-2-10 13:09 | |
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Coinbase said the judge’s opinion “narrowed the scope of discovery in this case,” adding, “We look forward to vindicating the remaining claims” in court.
2025-2-9 23:59 | |
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Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has questioned the propriety of returning seized cryptocurrencies to Bitfinex as proposed by the US government.
2025-2-1 00:15 | |
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A federal judge dismissed Kraken's "major questions doctrine" defense in the SEC lawsuit but allowed its "fair notice" argument to proceed. This decision highlights ongoing debates over the SEC's authority in regulating cryptocurrencies.
2025-1-27 13:16 | |
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The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted Coinbase a partial victory in its legal dispute with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a Jan. 13 ruling. The panel of judges, led by Circuit Judge Ambro, deemed the SEC’s reasoning “arbitrary and capricious” under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), a standard requiring […] The post Coinbase scores legal win, court orders SEC to explain lack of crypto rulemaking appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2025-1-14 23:41 | |
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A decade-long legal battle over a lost Bitcoin fortune has ended in disappointment for James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, Wales. A Cardiff High Court has dismissed Howells’ lawsuit against Newport City Council, according to the BBC, refusing him…
2025-1-10 00:25 | |
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Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm has petitioned a judge to drop criminal charges against him after an appeals court found the Treasury unlawfully sanctioned the crypto mixer.
2024-12-20 05:49 | |
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Craig Wright, the computer scientist who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the elusive creator of Bitcoin, was sentenced on Thursday to one year in prison by a UK judge for contempt of court. This decision, issued by Justice James Edward Mellor, follows a thorough analysis of Wright’s conduct, which the court ruled included “significant and […]
2024-12-20 23:47 | |
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Coinbase will likely be able to move forward with its intention to suspend wBTC trading on Dec. 19 following a challenge in federal court.
2024-12-19 23:24 | |
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A federal court in Texas has struck down a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that expanded the definition of a broker to include decentralized finance platforms and other crypto entities. The SEC’s broker-dealer rule, finalized in February 2024, aimed to…
2024-11-21 22:37 | |
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Kraken won’t get the chance to appeal a California District Court judge’s decision that found the SEC had adequately alleged it sold unregistered securities.
2024-11-19 08:32 | |
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Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein has been sentenced to five years in prison by a Washington federal judge for stealing billions worth of Bitcoin from crypto exchange Bitfinex. According to a Bloomberg report, Lichtenstein received his sentence from the Washington federal court…
2024-11-16 11:00 | |
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Australian computer scientist and self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright is facing a contempt of court case over his lawsuit against BTC Core developers and Jack Dorsey’s Square. UK Judge James Mellor put Wright’s lawsuit on hold until the application is resolved on December 18.
2024-11-3 19:00 | |
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Judge John Koeltl ordered Alex Mashinsky and prosecutors to appear in court on Nov. 13 to address the former Celsius CEO’s motion to dismiss fraud and market manipulation charges.
2024-10-24 01:23 | |
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A federal judge "erred" in letting prediction market purveyor Kalshi list and trade election contracts, attorneys for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission argued in a brief to an appellate court Wednesday, reiterating many of the arguments it made during its case before the lower court.
2024-10-18 21:45 | |
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US prosecutors urged a Washington federal judge that Ilya Lichtenstein, the mastermind who extracted 120,000 Bitcoin ($8 billion) by hacking into the Bitfinex crypto exchange, should get five years in prison.
2024-10-16 12:00 | |
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A Nigerian Federal High Court has upheld the detention of Tigran Gambaryan, a Binance Holdings Ltd. executive, rejecting his recent bail application on health grounds. The decision, delivered by Justice Emeka Nwite on Friday, maintains Gambaryan’s incarceration despite ongoing concerns regarding his medical condition, as Bloomberg reports.
2024-10-11 20:00 | |
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2024-10-11 18:16 | |
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Judge Emeka Nwite ruled that Tigran Gambaryan should stay in prison unless his health condition poses a threat to others and quarantine is unavailable.
2024-10-12 13:46 | |
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Ripple Labs filed its cross-appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit The company is attempting to contest an August 7 judgement made by Judge Analisa Torres The SEC v Ripple Labs is a case that dates back to 2020 Ripple Labs has filed a cross-appeal in its ongoing litigation battle against […] The post Ripple Labs files notice of cross-appeal in ongoing battle against the SEC appeared first on CoinJournal.
2024-10-11 00:33 | |
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A U.S. court approved FTX’s bankruptcy plan on Monday, which will see the majority of the crypto exchange’s customers get the equivalent of their 2022 losses, and then some.
2024-10-8 23:50 | |
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FTX’s bankruptcy plan to repay customers in cash plus interest was approved by a Delaware judge, despite a push for in-kind reimbursements. Judge John Dorsey of the U.S. District of Delaware Bankruptcy Court ruled in favor of FTX’s repayment, which…
2024-10-8 23:03 | |
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Roughly two years after the crypto exchange collapsed and many of its executives faced criminal charges, the Oct. 7 court decision was a step forward for reimbursing FTX users.
2024-10-8 22:43 | |
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On Wednesday, October 2, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) took a formal step in extending the XRP lawsuit with Ripple by filing a Notice of Appeal of Judge Torres’s ruling. This move came on the heels of the final judgment by the US District Court, Southern District of New York on August […]
2024-10-4 21:00 | |
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The court order demands approximately 85% of the significant fine to be paid back to victims of William Koo Ichioka’s fraudulent scheme.
2024-9-23 06:14 | |
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In a significant legal victory for cryptocurrency regulation, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) secured a $36 million judgment in a California-based crypto fraud case. US District Court Judge Vince Chhabria, presiding over the Northern District of California, ordered defendant Ichioka to pay $31 million in restitution to defrauded investors and imposed an additional $5 […]
2024-9-21 22:54 | |
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New York resident William Koo Ichioka agreed to pay $36 million in a CFTC case alleging cryptocurrency and forex fraud. According to a Sept. 20 notice, Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California…
2024-9-21 21:40 | |
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The CFTC is working to ban political prediction markets. Its current goal: Get a federal appeals court to keep one from launching while it argues a judge was mistaken in overturning its rejection of Kalshi.
2024-9-23 19:00 | |
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A Texas federal court judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Consensys against the SEC that claimed the agency was investigating Ethereum to classify it as a security.
2024-9-20 01:53 | |
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If it turns out that the judge's ruling preempts the CFTC’s proposed rulemaking, election event contracts may now be completely legal.
2024-9-14 16:59 | |
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USDT attracts property rights as it can be the subject of tracing and can constitute trust property in the same way as other property, a judge in England declared.
2024-9-14 14:47 | |
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US judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against Atomic Wallet due to no jurisdiction. The court ruled that there was insufficient evidence and that there was no deliberate Colorado targeting. Plaintiffs have 21 days to justify claims against shareholder Ilia Brusov.
2024-9-12 09:59 | |
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A US judge found a Colorado court lacked jurisdiction over the Estonian-based Atomic Wallet, its CEO and a sister software development firm.
2024-9-11 09:03 | |
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Judge Jia Cobb said the court would hold a hearing on Sept. 12 to address competing motions filed by the CFTC and Kalshi over betting on US elections.
2024-9-10 23:08 | |
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A New Jersey court judge deemed a lawsuit against Coinbase over its portrayal of an eventual regulatory crackdown acceptable. Late on Sept. 5, U.S. District Judge Brian Martinotti ruled that Coinbase shareholders had the right to sue the crypto exchange…
2024-9-7 20:34 | |
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A Nigerian court has postponed the decision on the bail application for detained Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan until Oct. 9. Judge Emeka Nwite issued the ruling on Sept. 4 after hearing arguments from both Gambaryan’s lawyer, Mark Mordi, and the prosecuting counsel, Ekele Iheanacho, who opposed the bail request.
2024-9-5 02:30 | |
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In a significant legal victory for Elon Musk and Tesla, a US district court judge has dismissed a $258 billion lawsuit alleging that the tech mogul and his company manipulated Dogecoin (DOGE) price. The ruling, which came on August 30, 2024, signals a shift in the dynamics surrounding the popular meme coin, impacting its market […]
2024-8-31 15:30 | |
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A United States court dismissed a $258 billion class action lawsuit claiming that Elon Musk and his companies, SpaceX and Tesla, orchestrated a “crypto pyramid scheme.” Almost two years after the filing, Judge Alvin Hellerstein of the US District Court…
2024-8-30 09:31 | |
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A US district court judge dismissed the lawsuit, saying that “no reasonable investor” could rely on Musk’s Dogecoin tweets for investment decisions.
2024-8-30 03:38 | |
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Former FTX executive Ryan Salame has withdrawn his petition to dismiss the indictment against Michelle Bond just days before a critical court hearing. In a letter dated Aug. 29, Salame’s legal team informed Judge Lewis A.
2024-8-30 02:15 | |
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The proposed suspension of services came amid an ongoing feud between Elon Musk and Judge Alexandre de Moraes.
2024-8-30 20:59 | |
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Martin Shkreli had to forfeit a one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album in 2018 — now a judge ordered him to surrender any digital copies until a court case is finalized.
2024-8-27 05:37 | |
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Binance just got judicial approval to invest customer fiat funds in US Treasury Bills. The approval was signed and issued by Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is overseeing the SEC v. Binance case. The ruling permits Binance to only “invest…
2024-7-20 19:32 | |
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On Tuesday, a judge at London’s High Court referred Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist, who had claimed to have invented Bitcoin, to British prosecutors for alleged perjury. The judge concluded that he had “extensively and repeatedly” lied to substantiate his false claim.
2024-7-17 15:48 | |
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Cryptocurrencies remained downbeat on Friday, December 5, with sentiment deteriorating across leading assets. Meanwhile, the latest ETF flow stats confirm this weakness, with Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded products struggling as new products attracted fresh funds.
Ripple (XRP) seems to have lost steam after recording gains over the past two days. The second-largest altcoin by market cap is trading at around $2. 17, with the bulls pushing to regain control of the trend.
Bitcoin traded just above $93,416 on Thursday as expectations mounted that the US Federal Reserve would cut interest rates next week. During the morning session, the cryptocurrency dipped to $92,612 before climbing to an intraday high of $94,002, reflecting renewed momentum after several weeks of turbulence.
Crypto markets staged a major turnaround on Tuesday as traders reacted to rising expectations of US interest-rate cuts and a surge in spot Bitcoin ETF activity following Vanguard’s decision to end its ban on Bitcoin ETF purchases.
The cryptocurrency market kicked off December with a downbeat mood as negative sentiments prevailed. At the same time, yesterday’s inflows data confirmed a divided landscape among leading spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which have become the primary indicator of institutional appetite in digital currencies.
The cryptocurrency market experienced a dip on Monday but instantly bounced back. Bitcoin briefly dropped to the $84k level but is now trading above $86k per coin. XRP, Ripple’s native coin, also dipped on Monday, but the $1.
Coinbase stock (NASDAQ: COIN) plummeted 5% in pre-market trading on Monday, as the crypto sector entered December under assault. Bitcoin shed more than 5% to trade below $86,600, while Ethereum collapsed 5.