Cryptocurrency Analysis and News Portal
The United States Department of Justice filed a court motion on Oct. 4 claiming the lack of crypto regulations in the U.S. is no bar to the criminal charges filed against the former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried of now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX.The U.S. DOJ’s letter was filed in response to the
Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) targeted several Chinese businesses and their employees Tuesday in the latest round of charges tied to production and trafficking of fentanyl – a network that depended on cryptocurrency payments, according to authorities. Original Source
Read More
Crypto influencer Ben Armstrong, formerly known as ‘BitBoy,’ reportedly spent the night in the slammer and has been hit with two charges following his conspicuous arrest. Armstrong, who was taken into custody on Sept. 25 while livestreaming outside a former associate’s house, spent a little over 8 hours in a cell
Read More
Jatinder Singh will attend a plea hearing on Oct. 23 at the County Court of Victoria in Australia for failing to report that he received AUSD 10.47 million (roughly $6.7 million) from Crypto.com in 2021. Singh used the money –sent to him because of an accounting error – to buy
Read More
In a bid to douse the fears of users about the safety of their funds, however, the platform has published a compensation plan. A recent filing has revealed that crypto asset platform JPEX is applying to nullify its registration with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission. As contained in the September
Read More
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) isn’t done chasing down crypto exchanges and decentralized finance (DeFi) projects it sees as violating securities laws in the same vein as Coinbase Inc. (COIN) and Binance, said David Hirsch, head of the agency’s Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit. Source
Read More
Roni Cohen-Pavon, the former chief revenue officer of cryptocurrency lending firm Celsius, has reportedly pleaded guilty to charges related to fraud and price manipulation.According to a Sept. 13 filing in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Cohen-Pavon pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit price
Read More
Roni Cohen-Pavon, the former chief revenue officer at Celsius, has pleaded guilty to four criminal charges before a federal court in Manhattan, New York. Cohen-Pavon admitted to manipulating the market price of CEL, the primary cryptocurrency issued by bankruptcy digital asset lender Celsius. The ruling on Sep. 13 was issued by
Read More
An X poll under Wang’s post seemed to gather community sentiment for the eventual decision. Of nearly 1,700 voters as of Asian afternoon hours, 37% felt the fees should be distributed to miners, 27% felt it should be returned to Paxos, 21% voted on freezing the bitcoin, while the remaining
Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) now claims actress Mila Kunis’ “Stoner Cats” raised $8 million from selling unregistered securities in more than one US state. In a press release on Sep. 13, the SEC said Stoner Cats 2 LLC (SC2) sold 10,000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in 35 minutes and raised
Read More