FTX Hacker Holding $300,000,000 in Crypto Suddenly Moves Millions Worth of Assets: On-Chain Data

A bad actor who hacked the infamous crypto exchange FTX as it was collapsing is abruptly moving millions of dollars worth of crypto assets. According to data from blockchain intelligen...

11 months ago

Brazil is set to issue digital identification documents for its more than 214 million citizens using blockchain technology.

Brazil to Issue Digital IDs for Its 214 Million Citizens Using Blockchain Technology

The states of Rio de Janeiro, Goiás, and Paraná will be the first to adopt this new system, utilizing a priva...

11 months ago

The judge’s comments came just before he denied Bankman-Fried’s request to be released from jail to prepare for trial.

Bankman-Fried may face ‘very long sentence’ if convicted: JudgeBankman-Fried may face ‘very long sentence’ if convicted: Judge

Sam Bankman-Fried, the indicted founder of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, may face a “very long sentence” if convicted at his fraud trial starting next week, the judge ove...

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SEC Chair Gary Gensler Faces Tough Questions on Cryptocurrency, Labeled 'The Regulatory Enforcer

US House Committee Grills SEC Chair Gary Gensler Over Crypto, Dubbed 'Tonya Harding of Regulation'

In a congressional hearing on September 27, the chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Gary Gensler, faced a barrage of questions and criticisms regarding ...

1 year ago

Hypothekarbank Lenzburg, a regional Swiss bank with over $7 billion in assets, joins SDX’s central securities depository.

6th Swiss bank joins SDX crypto exchange

Hypothekarbank Lenzburg, a regional Swiss bank with over $7 billion in assets, has become the sixth Swiss bank to join Six Digital Exchange (SDX). According to the press release f...

1 year ago

Members of the House Financial Services Committee – two from each party – wrote a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler urging ETF action.

U.S. House Lawmakers Push SEC’s Gensler to Approve Spot Bitcoin ETF ‘Immediately’

Four members of the House Financial Services Committee – including Rep. Tom Emmer, the majority whip in the House leadership – called on the SEC to move forward to appr...

1 year ago

Starting Oct. 16, the bank will decline customer attempts to make payments related to crypto assets via debit card or outgoing bank transfers.

Chase U.K. to Block Crypto Payments Citing Fraud, Scams

Banking giant Chase is banning crypto-linked payments via debit card or by outgoing bank transfer for U.K. clients starting Oct. 16, according to an email to customers. "If we thi...

1 year ago

To minimize the damage, HTX proactively offered 5% of the drained funds as a “white-hat bonus,” which would amount to nearly $400,000.

CZ appoints Binance security team to track Huobi HTX stolen funds

Hours after the crypto exchange HTX (rebranded from Huobi) reported a hack that resulted in a loss of $8 million, Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao offered the help of the Binance security team in...

1 year ago

Armstrong has had an apparent fallout with his former business partners, several tweets suggest.

Ben Armstrong, Founder of Bitboy Crypto Channel, Apparently Arrested; BEN Plunges 30%

Crypto influencer Ben Armstrong was arrested on Monday after an apparent confrontation with his former business partner, part of which was live-streamed on X, formerly Twitter. An ...

1 year ago

His company managed billions in assets and made him one of the world’s richest people. Then, almost overnight, it collapsed. With a fraud trial beginning next week, a documentary asks how he bewitched so many

Crypto king or conman: is Sam Bankman-Fried about to be sent down for a century?

Sunil Kavuri is not a novice investor. Sure, he hasn’t always been involved in finance: 20 years ago, he was a model. He and his identical twin brother were the stuff of local newspaper hu...

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