Dr. Craig Wright has appointed market leading tech law firm Shoosmiths to take over all of his U.K. cases as he gears up for a packed legal calendar, signalling one, single-minded focus: victory in January’s joint identity trial.
Bit Trade, Kraken’s provider in Australia, faces a lawsuit after Australia’s securities regulator determined it failed to comply with the design and distribution obligations for one of its margin trading products.
A recent hearing at the Senate Banking Committee saw Gary Gensler grilled on the SEC's track record, highlighting contrasting attitudes toward the work of the securities regulator and its Chair.
Binance.US issued a notice to customers regarding a “temporary shortage in the concentration of BCH on the BCH network,” which left many confused as to what exactly they’d just read.
The FBI searched the home of Kraken co-founder Jesse Powell in March over claims of hacking and cyberstalking, the New York Times has reported.
Following the rejection of Kraken’s opposition to the IRS request, the exchange is now obliged to hand over 160M transaction records and provide information on 59,351 accounts to the tax agency.
A decision was made at a case management conference on how best to definitively settle the issue of whether Dr. Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto, at least for Dr. Wright’s ‘passing off’ cases and COPA vs Wright.
Charges filed by the SEC against Binance and Coinbase spell trouble for the 'crypto' industry dominated by exchanges that offer assets that amount to securities without proper authorization.
The Joint Financial Services-Agriculture Subcommittee had a hearing discussing the future of digital asset regulation in the U.S. and, in particular, what roles should the SEC and the CFTC have.
In a petition filed in San Francisco, Kraken argued that it should not be required to comply with “the enormous burdens” imposed by the IRS’s request for user data.
Digital asset firms often blame the "shifting" regulatory landscape for their failures, but in truth, laws haven't changed, and regulators are finally catching on to how technology works.
Silvergate has been living on borrowed time since it failed to file its latest financial report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by the already extended deadline.
