
Crypto Crime Cartel
BitMEX founders admit Bank Secrecy Act violations, pay $20M fines
Arthur Hayes and Benjamin Delo, co-founders of the BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange, have pled guilty to using their platform as a...
India: Authorities arrest 11 in $5.3M Ethereum scam
The authorities arrested the leaders of Ether Trade Asia, which lured investors to its Ether investment funds and then made...
BTC’s ‘CoinPool’—scaling solution or fancy coin mixer?
CoinPool promotes itself as a way to increase "coin onboarding and transactional scaling by orders of magnitude," but in reality,...
Coinbase, Kraken CEOs’ tough talk holding back digital currency adoption
The CEOs of cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Kraken may find out the hard way that there’s a price to be...
FCA concerned about Binance’s backdoor re-entry into UK payments network
Binance announced a partnership with Paysafe that once again gives it access to the U.K. payments network, having lost it...
Bitfinex hack: One-half of NYC couple accused in $4.5B laundering case released on bail
Judge Beryl Howell has revoked the bond which had been granted to Ilya Lichtenstein, agreeing with prosecutors that he was...