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Coinbase Violated Securities Laws With Staking Program, Multiple U.S. State Regulators Allege

The ASC action doesn't forbid Coinbase from offering staking as a service as long as it complies with the law, but the order itself was the result of a task force of 10 state securities regulators in the U.S., namely Alabama, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, South Carolina, Vermont,

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Bitcoin Miami panel rejects ‘fight’ rhetoric against regulators

A trio of speakers in attendance at Industry Day, May 18, during the Bitcoin 2023 event in Miami held a discussion on government regulation and how the cryptocurrency industry should fight back against the “anti-crypto army.” Moderated by David Zell, co-founder of the Bitcoin Policy Institute, the panel featured Perianne

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Regulators clamp down on websites offering unrealistic crypto returns

Share Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Telegram Copy Link Link copied In a crackdown on fraudulent activities, the SEC has taken action against operators of multiple websites accused of enticing investors with exaggerated returns through various securities offerings, including crypto asset mining pools.  The regulatory agency has targeted

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U.S. State Regulators Target Supposed AI-Crypto Tokens Using Images of Musk, CZ and Buterin.

The scheme operated by Horatiu Caragaceanu, The Shark of Wall Street and Hedge4.ai markets coins known as TruthGPT Coin (TRUTH). The token is using images of Elon Musk, Binance Chief Executive Officer Changpeng “CZ” Zhao and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, said the Texas State Securities Board, which is joined by

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State regulators crack down on fraudulent cryptos promoted as ‘Elon Musk AI Tokens’ and ‘TruthGPT Coin’

The Texas State Securities Board, including several state regulators, have come together to issue cease-and-desist orders against Horatiu Charlie Caragaceanu and his organizations, The Shark of Wall Street and Hedge4.ai, for promoting two cryptocurrencies named TruthGPT Coin and Elon Musk AI Token. The orders seek to clamp down on what

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Will compromise on anonymous crypto appease US regulators, spur adoption?

Cryptocurrencies were designed to be anonymous or pseudonymous, so there is an inherent tension when protocols come up against jurisdictional authorities. In the United States, the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector has jousted with regulators over the need to comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) rules, and even

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Coinbase Grew Quickly by Working With U.S. Regulators. Will It Expand Even More by Disregarding the SEC?

But the new vertical is also a sign of the exchange’s increasingly global perspective. Although Coinbase has operated across Europe and parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America for years, it has recently become more vocal about building internationally. In an April blog post, the exchange said it has begun

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