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In a report published on Friday, Reuters laid out the findings of its investigation into the regulatory compliance practices of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume.The authors suggest the existence of a recurring pattern whereby the company’s CEO Changpeng Zhao, while proclaiming its openness to government oversight,
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John Edwards begins his new role as UK Information Commissioner today (Tuesday 4 January). Mr Edwards, who joins on a five year term, spent the past eight years as New Zealand Privacy Commissioner, and before that worked as a
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Sherrod Brown, the chair of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, has called on several crypto firms to release information related to consumer and investor protection on stablecoins.According to a Nov. 23 announcement, Brown sent notices to Coinbase, Gemini, Paxos, TrustToken, Binance.US, Circle, Centre, and Tether requesting
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Brown also sent letters to cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase, Gemini, Binance.US as well as blockchain infrastructure firm Paxos, which operates the Pax dollar stablecoin, decentralized finance company TrustToken, which operates the TUSD stablecoin, and Centre, the Coinbase- and Circle-founded project that oversees the USDC stablecoin. Source
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According to the filing, Coyle wrote in his tweet that the miner increased its hashrate by 25% by using immersion cooling, while Argo now says it doesn’t have sufficient data to make these claims. However, the technology is expected to make the mining machines more efficient and extend the lives
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The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) opened a joint investigation into the personal
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The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has issued a draft order allowing its agents to request information from cryptocurrency platforms among other organizations. The move follows changes made to the anti-corruption legislation in Russia, the agency noted. FSB Wants Access to Crypto Data for Anti-Corruption Checks in Russia Russia’s
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On September 24, the staff writer for The New Republic, Jacob Silverman, tweeted about a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request he filed that was ultimately denied. On the social media platform, Silverman wrote that he got Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) responses to his FOIA requests and said the
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On September 15, the top non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace, Opensea, revealed that an Opensea executive profited from insider trading. “Yesterday we learned that one of our employees purchased items that they knew were set to display on our front page before they appeared there publicly,” Opensea informed the public on
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The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has today announced that John Edwards is the Government's preferred nominee to be the next
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