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Chinese authorities have reportedly raided and shut down the Shanghai offices of leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance. Citing unnamed local sources, The Block says that local police have shut down Binance’s offices after raiding the premises. Between 50–100 of the exchange’s employees reportedly worked out of the Shanghai location.Binance has not
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Major crypto exchange Binance may be returning to China, with a planned office to open in Beijing, sources say.Binance in exileBinance, which left China in September 2017 in response to the country’s ban on crypto trading, is looking to open a new office in Beijing to accompany one operating
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Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance is opening an office in Beijing, two sources with knowledge of the matter told CoinDesk. The new outpost will join Binance’s current mainland China office in Shanghai. It’s not clear what exactly the office will
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The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) gives its fintech research unit LabCFTC status as an independent operating office.Blockchain and digital assets are an important part of developmentEstablished by the CFTC in 2017 with the goal of engaging with the fintech community, LabCFTC will now be reporting directly
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We can barely catch a breath with positive Ripple and XRP news breaking daily, yet the price remains the same, we’ll cover that a little below. Yesterday Ripple announced new offices in Washington DC, the political and regulatory hub of the U.S., they also hired four former financial regulators. Every federal regulator
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The Ripple global takeover marches on with brand new European offices in an effort to further expand its presence in the region. The new Iceland office comes after a recent surge of interest in Europe, with Ripple fan Christine Legarde’ talking over the ECB Nov 1st. The new Icelandic team will play
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The United States attorney's office for the Northern District of California has indicted two suspects — Elliot Gunton and Anthony Tyler Nashatka — for hacking EtherDelta, a non-custodial marketplace for trading Ethereum (ETH) ERC-20 tokens, in December 2017.According to the documents originally filed on Aug. 13, Ganton and Nashatka
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The offices of Chinese initial coin offering (ICO) startup GXChain have reportedly been closed by the local police.On Sept. 11, Dovey Wan — founding partner of blockchain-based investment company Primitive Ventures — tweeted a photo of an office taped closed (presumably by Chinese police) and announced that GXChain “got
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An ICO investigation into the actions of two former Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers has concluded. The investigation followed a referral from the
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Bitcoin SV blockchain developer and blockchain organization service Open Directory creator synfonaut has launched a consulting service called Office Hours. This service connects developers in need of assistance with experienced Bitcoin SV devs, for help on Bitcoin SV projects. Synfonaut announced the service’s launch in a Twitter post on Aug.
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