The Australian digital currency mining company has filed preliminary documents recently for an initial public offering in the United States in another sign of the booming interest in the blockchain sector.
Larry Dean Harmon is accused of helping criminals move 350,000 BTC through his mixing service and was heavily linked to infamous dark web marketplace AlphaBay.
The U.S. securities regulator recently brought charges against Gregory Keough and Derek Acree, and their Cayman Islands company for raising $30 million by selling illegal securities via so-called smart contracts.
The state has now passed 26 new laws, all catering to the digital assets space. The biggest one so far is centered on a new type of charter that gives quick approval for new digital currency banks.
In what appears to be one of the largest digital currency heists in history, decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Poly Network lost an estimated US$600 million in digital tokens in a hack attack earlier this week.
Justin Cheng, who is charged with defrauding the U.S. government with over $7 million in a well-orchestrated COVID relief scam, has been sentenced to seven years in prison by a federal court.
In August 2020, Mark Shin attempted to transfer staked ICX tokens from his wallet when he discovered he had received 25,000 newly-minted tokens.
The three were charged for the scam by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in September 2020 for duping at least 27 investors for close to $1 million.
The derivatives trading platform allegedly violated U.S. regulations when it offered investment products without acquiring the necessary license and failed to implement customer identification programs.
Ripple Labs is under fire after the U.S. securities regulator accused the company of undermining a regulatory probe into whether the XRP token is an unregistered security.
America appears determined to bring an end to the digital currency sector’s ‘wild west’ phase, signalling a fundamental realignment with serious implications for the current market leaders.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had entered into a settlement with Poloniex that will see the exchange pay a total of $10.3 million in fines.
