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Prosecutors appear to have a strong case against Virgil Griffith, the ethereum developer charged with conspiring to aid North Korea, legal experts say.For one thing, the mere act of giving a presentation in Pyongyang might have violated the U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (OFAC) sanctions, depending on
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The man who wrote Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos, is anything but a bitcoin maximalist.At the Blockstack Summit in San Francisco in October, he spoke about a subject that's already proving to be one of the most-watched topics going into 2020: inter-blockchain communication (IBC)."I find it astounding after all this time
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Telegram will release bank records that the United States Securities Exchange Commission believes will prove misconduct in the latter’s $1.7 billion offering of Gram tokens. International privacy laws and the new informationPer a Jan. 13 filing with the court of the Southern District of New York (SDNY), Telegram will have
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An Oct. 10 class-action lawsuit filed against iFinex Inc., the parent company of Bitfinex and Tether, was refiled on Jan. 8 in New York’s Southern District. The lawsuit by Young et al. was followed on the next day by a similar class-action filing by Bryan Faubus.The original lawsuit alleges
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Those who missed the 2019’s Binance Coin (BNB) price rally can still stage profits off the cryptocurrency in 2020, hints its supreme backer Changpeng Zhao.The Binance exchange CEO theorized a potential positive correlation between BNB and its top rival Bitcoin. He noted that the current upside sentiment in the bitcoin
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This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Ryan Zurrer is founder of Dialectic, a Swiss-based crypto-asset firm focused on on-chain opportunities. Previously, he led investments at Polychain Capital and served as
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Virgil Griffith, a tech expert who was arrested last month for travelling to a cryptocurrency conference in North Korea and allegedly provided sensitive information regarding the technology to the country, has been granted $1 million bail and is expected to be released shortly from jail.Griffith had initially been denied bail
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The New York Southern District Court determined that the lawsuit against David Pike, who is connected to the crypto Ponzi scam OneCoin, would go on according to a recent court order.The latest court order from the New York District Court reveals that there is an ongoing discussion regarding the potential
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Blockchain of Things Inc. (BCOT), a crypto startup that provides enterprise software to organizations, was charged for introducing an initial coin offering (ICO) despite not being registered. The firm has been making efforts to settle on an agreement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as the company will
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Reginald Fowler, one of the individuals accused of running a "shadow banking" service for cryptocurrency startups, is expected to plead guilty to at least some charges during a court hearing next month.According to a letter written by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jessica Fender and Sheb Swett on behalf of U.S. Attorney
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