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Singapore High Court rules crypto personal property, compares it to fiat money

Cryptocurrency is deemed property capable of being held on trust, Judge Philip Jeyaretnam of the High Court of Singapore decided in a ruling on July 25. The Judge said he didn’t see any difference between crypto, fiat money or shells, as long as all those objects, physical or not, share

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Couple behind Bitfinex money laundering scheme reach plea deal with US prosecutors

The husband and wife alleged to have laundered billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin connected to the 2016 Bitfinex hack have reached a plea agreement with authorities in the United States.According to records filed with U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia on July 21, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather

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Unibot (UNIBOT), Wagiebot (WAGIEBOT), and Bolt (BOLT) Tokens Surge as Telegram Bots Become Latest Money Sink

“Main problem w/ trading on-chain is terrible UX, unibot allows you to easily market buy/sell w/ 1 telegram command,” writes popular Crypto Twitter trader @blknoiz06. “Trading directly through telegram is great for fast swaps, scalps, etc,” explains @0xKawz, another trader. Source

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Prime Trust Put Into Receivership Amid Shortfall in Funds, Charges It Used Customer Money to Buy Crypto

Crypto custodian Prime Trust has been ordered by the Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, where the company has its headquarters, to be put into receivership after the state ordered the company to cease all activities amid a shortfall in customer funds and accusations that it used customer funds to

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AnubisDAO’s 13.5K ETH rug pull money washes away on Tornado Cash

Nearly two years after the dog-inspired decentralized finance (DeFi) project — AnubisDAO — was rug-pulled for almost $60 million in Ether (ETH), the stolen funds were siphoned away using Tornado Cash.In October 2021, AnubisDAO raised 13,556 ETH from crypto investors owing to the predated Dogecoin (DOGE) trend. However, roughly 20

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Crypto Can’t Be Used as Money Due to ‘Inherent Flaws,’ the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Said After the FTX and Terra Collapses

Despite the millions of retail and institutional investors getting involved in the growing sector, “crypto has so far failed to harness innovation to the benefit of society,” said the report, prepared for a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors due to take place in Gandhinagar, India this

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BOE governor trashes crypto, stablecoins in favor of ‘enhanced digital money’

Andrew Bailey, a Bank of England (BOE) governor, delivered a speech July 10 in which he moved smoothly from the central bank’s efforts to control inflation and maintain public trust in financial institutions to why cryptocurrencies are not money. Instead of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, he would prefer “enhanced digital money.”The spate of

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