Quantstamp settles with SEC over fraudulent $28 million ICO
Quantstamp promised investors a smart contract auditing platform, but the SEC says it violated securities laws in its 2017 ICO and settled for $3.5 million.
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SEC asks Coinbase to stop trading everything but ‘Bitcoin’—here’s what that means
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong slams the securities regulator for asking the exchange to halt trading, excluding Bitcoin, saying that doing so would "end the crypto industry in the U.S."
SEC charges HEX founder Richard Heart with fraud
Hex founder Richard Heart faces fraud charges relating to his Hex entities offering unregistered securities and over ill-gotten wealth that the SEC is urging him to forfeit.
New stablecoin stumbles as Binance’s Changpeng Zhao hints at unstable stables
Hong Kong-based First Digital Group celebrated the debut of the new FDUSD stablecoin on Binance, but little do they know that the U.S. dollar-backed FDUSD appears to have tripped down the red carpet.
Worldcoin launches, token pumps, Orbs multiply, suspicion mounts
Worldcoin attempts to introduce online biometric identity verification via scanning the irises of everyone on the planet, although progress on that front has been slow.
Decentralized? Ethereum and Lightning Network both at the mercy of cloud computing giants
It is a cruel irony that Ethereum and other blockchains had come to rely on large cloud computing firms like AWS when the original Bitcoin was designed to challenge them.
Binance fires staff, cuts benefits, ditches sponsorships, claims ‘this is fine’
Binance’s layoffs could top 3,000 by year’s end, according to an exchange staff who claimed that the U.S. Department of Justice probe would likely end in a consent decree or settlement.
Vitalik Buterin says BTC’s ‘really weird politics’ holding back adoption
Vitalik Buterin said in a Twitter Space with Eric Wall and Udi Wertheimer that BTC has effectively merged its technical and cultural systems, resulting in “really weird politics holding it back."
Is Ethereum (ETH) a security under US law?
Buffone Law Group issued the memo warning that Ethereum’s move to proof-of-stake and the Ethereum 2.0 staking programs offered by exchanges amount to illegal securities under the Howey test.
Kevin Healy: My long journey to BSV
On this CoinGeek Conversations, former iOS developer Kevin Healy shares his journey to the original Bitcoin protocol and also explains the advantages of Bitcoin technology based on what is written in the Bitcoin white paper.
IMF says banning digital assets may not be effective in the long-term
Banning digital assets may not be the best way of mitigating the associated risks, said the IMF, a few months after suggesting such an approach might be an option.
SEC v Ripple: No smoking gun in Hinman docs
Ripple execs are hyping up the U.S. SEC communications relating to a speech given by Bill Hinman in 2018, in which he said that he did not believe BTC or ETH were securities.