
United States
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4 August, 2022
Woman behind BTC murder-for-hire plot faces 10 years in prison
Jessica Leeann Sledge made three payments totaling $10k in BTC to a purported "hitman" she found through a dark web...
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3 August, 2022
DROPs token founders Jeremy McAlpine and Zachary Matar sentenced in $1.9M ICO scam
Jeremy McAlpine and Zachary Matar pleaded guilty to one count each of securities fraud in August 2021; McAlpine will serve...
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3 August, 2022
Federal insurance doesn’t cover digital asset companies, FDIC clarifies
FDIC insurance doesn’t protect against insolvency, default, or bankruptcy of any non-bank entity such as digital asset exchanges, custodians, or...
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3 August, 2022
UK gov’t accused of abandoning national detained in Saudi over North Korea digital currency conference links
The U.K. national is detained in Saudi under the request of the U.S. government after they were identified as having...
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2 August, 2022
SEC calls Forsage a ‘fraudulent crypto pyramid and Ponzi scheme’
U.S. securities regulators have charged 11 individuals for creating and promoting the “fraudulent crypto pyramid and Ponzi scheme” that is...
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1 August, 2022
SEC Chief Gary Gensler: Digital currencies should be regulated like stock market
US SEC Chair Gary Gensler called for digital currency exchanges and lending platforms to offer the same consumer protections as...