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Regulation comes for crypto staking: Law Decoded, Feb. 6–13

Last week, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reached an agreement with cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. The latter will stop offering crypto staking services to American customers and pay $30 million in disgorgement, prejudgment interest and civil penalties. While the sum of fines could hardly get an entity like Kraken

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Kazakhstan Law Limiting Crypto Miners’ Consumption of Electricity Enters Into Force – Mining Bitcoin News

A new law expanding the regulatory framework for cryptocurrency miners while restricting their access to low-cost electricity has entered into force in Kazakhstan. The legislation introduces a licensing regime for mining with two different categories of licenses that companies will have to renew periodically. President Tokayev Sings Law Regulating Crypto Assets

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Proposed Israeli law to classify crypto as securities will ‘kill the industry’

Proposed laws in Israel that would see cryptocurrencies classified as securities would cause huge damage to the local crypto industry, according to the chief of an Israeli crypto service provider.Cryptox Magazine editor, Andrew Fenton, spoke with Ilan Sterk, the CEO of Altshuler Shaham Horizon in Tel Aviv, Israel. The firm

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Law Firm Subpoenas FTX Co-Founder, Top Executives, and Former Alameda CEO Over Voyager Digital Deal – Bitcoin News

On Feb. 6, 2023, law firm Kirkland & Ellis issued a subpoena to FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried and top executives on behalf of Voyager Digital. The subpoena requested they produce documents and communications related to the “Alameda Loan Agreement” between Alameda Ventures and Voyager, as well as other important documents.

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Did dYdX violate the law by changing its tokenomics?

On Jan. 24, the dYdX Foundation, the entity responsible for the dYdX decentralized crypto exchange, announced “changes” to its tokenomics — the way it distributes tokens to early investors, employees and contractors, and, of course, the public.So, what’s uncommon about the situation? The project’s foundation, in agreement with dYdX Trading

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Arizona senator doubles down on crypto amid the winter of discontent: Law Decoded, Jan. 23-30

Even though this winter continues to stress test the case for Bitcoin (BTC) advocation, some lawmakers strive to put their names on the crypto hot list among the likes of United States Senators Cynthia Lummis and Pat Toomey. State Senator Wendy Rogers, 68, introduced two bold bills in the Arizona

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Kazakhstan Parliament Adopts Law Regulating Crypto Mining and Exchange – Regulation Bitcoin News

Lawmakers in Nur-Sultan have approved the final version of the law “On Digital Assets in the Republic of Kazakhstan.” The new legislation, including several other bills, regulates the circulation of cryptocurrencies in the country and introduces a licensing regime for crypto miners and exchanges. Senate Votes on Crypto Law, Sends

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Hive Ransomware Network Dismantled by American, European Law Enforcement – Bitcoin News

Law enforcement authorities from over a dozen countries in Europe and North America have taken part in disrupting the activities of the Hive ransomware group, the U.S. Justice Department and Europol announced. Hive is believed to have targeted various organizations worldwide in the past couple of years, often extorting payments

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