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Tether and Bitfinex have chosen not to challenge the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request initiated by journalists, including Zeke Faux, Shane Shifflett and Ada Hui, whom they accuse of displaying “certain behaviors.” The companies allege that Faux’s prior reports on Tether and Bitfinex exceeded the boundaries of professional journalism. FOIL request
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Tether previously made a similar announcement after losing in court twice when attempting to block a June 2021 FOIL request filed by CryptoX. That request pertained to documents produced during the New York Attorney General's inquiry on allegations that USDT, the U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin that Tether issues, was not sufficiently
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Tether and Bitfinex have jointly agreed to drop initial opposition to a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request lodged in New York by a number of high-profile news publications.A statement from the USDT stablecoin issuer and cryptocurrency exchange shared with Cointelegraph notes that it is committed to transparently sharing information following
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BlockFi revealed that it has emerged from bankruptcy court, having received approval for its reorganization plan from all relevant stakeholders. Nearly 11 months after it first declared bankruptcy, the crypto lender BlockFi has now officially begun the process of winding down its operations. In line with this, the company has asked
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Crypto exchange Binance has frozen accounts linked to Hamas militants as per requests from Israeli law enforcement.According to an Oct. 10 WeChat post by Yi He, the exchange’s co-founder, the freeze is targeted toward Hamas and not the people of Palestine. As stated by He:“Hamas is a designated terrorist organization
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“We take pride in providing a great service to customers and getting the best outcomes we can for people complaining about breaches of their information rights. This is at the heart of what the ICO does. “We received more
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Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao reportedly declined to pay $40 million to former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) for a futures crypto exchange in March 2019, according to an excerpt from Michael Lewis’ book Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.According to the book, SBF proposed a
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Lawyers representing Sam Bankman-Fried have rejected a request from prosecutors to let a Ukrainian client of FTX testify via video link in a trial set to commence today, on Oct. 3. On Sep. 30, prosecutors filed an appeal with Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, seeking to overturn the opposition and enable two-way
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Lawyers for Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon have requested a federal court to reject the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) request to question him in the U.S. over the collapse of the Terra Money ecosystem.In a Sept. 27 filing, Kwon’s legal team said that the SEC’s request to
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The document, filed on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, shows Kwon's lawyers are opposing any opportunity for the stablecoin creator to offer testimony to U.S. regulators. The lawyers argue that it would be "impossible" to bring Kwon to the U.S. because he
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