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The U.S. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued and set charges of 1 million USD as a monetary penalty against Friedman LLP, the former auditing firm of Tether. Although the stablecoin issuer Tether hired the same auditing company from May 2017 to January 2018, the case filed last week does not count it. It has […]
2022-9-28 01:52 | |
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The SEC has charged the team behind Forsage for allegedly running a crypto pyramid and Ponzi scheme, which may have cost investors over $300 million worldwide. Both Pyramid and Ponzi...
2022-8-2 20:33 | |
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The SEC and DOJ brought insider trading charges against three people Thursday, but assertions that nine cryptocurrencies are securities may hold greater implications.
2022-7-22 20:47 | |
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Terra CEO Do Kwon has been in hot water ever since the collapse of the network last month. After the UST lost its peg and the price of LUNA (Now LUNC) crashed below zero, there had been calls for investigations into the cause of the crash seeing that thousands of investors had lost billions of […]
2022-6-10 20:00 | |
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With more and more developers exploring Ethereum (ETH) 2.0 testnets, the first plagiarism charges have been hurled. Some redditors learned it may resemble Cardano (ADA)!
2020-1-27 20:10 | |
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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 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Vincent He. Although China has shut down bitcoin trading platforms and deemed them illegal, its attitude toward bitcoin mining is still ambiguous.
2019-5-31 20:14 | |
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OneCoin, the alleged Ponzi scheme, may have finally come to an end as a U. S. lawsuit indicting its founders and $4 billion revenues becomes formal. OneCoin: Class Action Demand By $103K Investor A class action document filed May 7 at the US Southern District Court of New York brings multiple charges against four executives behind OneCoin: brother and sister duo Konstantin Ignatov and Ruja Ignatova, Sebastian Greenwood and Mark Scott.
2019-5-9 16:00 | |
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Bitfinex is forging forward despite its ongoing row with the authorities, and it's looking for investors to support its efforts. Today, May 8, 2019, iFinex, the operator and parent company of the popular cryptocurrency exchange, released a private token sale white paper, putting to rest rumors of its Initial Exchange Offering (IEO).
2019-5-8 18:33 | |
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By CCN: ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees made a valid observation on Twitter today, pointing out that there’s some degree of irony in the charges potentially facing embattled Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex: Tether had the cash reserves, despite wide speculation that the company had issued far more crypto tokens than it could settle.
2019-4-27 00:35 | |
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WikiLeaks‘ Julianne Assange‘s days of holing up in an Ecuadorian embassy to avoid extradition have come to an end. In just a few hours, he’s been arrested and found guilty of a variety of charges.
2019-4-12 17:34 | |
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Disgraced alleged hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett is finally learning what most entertainers understand by the end of their first acting class: you won’t ever live down a bad performance. Jussie Smollett Flunks out of $130,000 Audition After allegedly staging a phony hate crime on himself, Smollett tried desperately to play the role of “an innocent man” for Chicago lawmakers.
2019-4-7 16:00 | |
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It seems that Tesla just can’t catch a break. Following charges from the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) that could force Elon Musk to temporarily step down as CEO, the company’s vehicles are allegedly having more than a little trouble staying clean.
2019-3-9 00:53 | |
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In 2016, a Florida judge dismissed money laundering and illegal money transmission charges against a bitcoin trader, arguing that bitcoin wasn’t covered by state statutes. Today, an appeals court reversed that decision.
2019-1-31 22:15 | |
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India could be making a U-turn on its directives for cryptocurrencies. Per reports from the New India Express, a second interdisciplinary committee set up by the Indian government is considering making cryptocurrencies legal in the country again but with more stringent rules.
2018-12-28 02:16 | |
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The patent would allow for connectivity between autonomous vehicles, the world around them, and the various charges they may incur while out on the road.
2018-12-4 01:11 | |
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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 | |
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Friday's charges against Airfox and Paragon Coin may hint at how the SEC will regulate ICOs going forward.
2018-11-17 01:45 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released a report detailing actions taken against fraudulent ICOs and financial ventures, and, indeed, the year has been wrought with cases.
2018-11-3 00:33 | |
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Does a decades-old securities law apply to an initial coin offering (ICO)? In a case that represents the first time securities laws have been applied to cryptocurrencies, a district judge says it may.
2018-9-12 22:09 | |
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Riot Blockchain, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT), a company officially focused on cryptocurrency mining and the development of an exchange, has swiftly replaced its CEO after the SEC charged him in connection to a fraudulent $27 million pump an dump scheme.
2018-9-11 19:45 | |
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According to reports from a Korean accounting firm, the biggest South Korean crypto exchange UPbit is cleared of charges from the allegations that were made against it last May. The exchange was blamed to have manipulated its balance sheet which resulted in a rise in its trading values. Soon after unknown sources claimed that the firm […]
2018-8-8 02:57 | |
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There is substantial controversy surrounding Tether, a cryptocurrency that claims to be pegged to the U. S. dollar. According to Tether, each Tether token is backed by one U.
2018-6-14 22:01 | |
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Robert Kennedy Jr. has suspended his independent pursuit of the U.S. presidency and encouraged his supporters to instead back former President Donald Trump in battleground states, putting the weight of the Kennedy name behind the GOP candidate.
The former CEO of crypto platform Uphold, J.P. Thieriot, is trying to drum up crypto support for Vice President Kamala Harris as she pursues the Democratic nomination in the presidential election, arguing that former President Donald Trump is offering empty promises to the industry and Harris is signaling a new openness.
The electoral campaign finance board of North Carolina will not allow election candidates to accept crypto donations in order to fund their campaigns. Although the Federal Election Commission in 2014 allowed candidates for federal office to accept Bitcoin donations, U.