Ben Armstrong and the influencer problem
Ben Armstrong, like most people, got into Bitcoin because it was an intriguing tool for internet business, but he let himself get sucked into the seedy underbelly of the ‘crypto’ economy.
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Reginald Fowler gets 6 years in prison over crypto shadow banking
Reginald Fowler gave ‘crypto’ firms a backdoor into the U.S. banking system and transacted $750 million for ‘crypto’ firms, including Tether and Bitfinex.
I assume the price of BSV is not manipulated
BSV distancing itself from the 'crypto' market has revealed its true price, which is linked to its ability to provide actual utility to users and not based on mere speculation.
Sam Bankman-Fried got $2.2 billion from FTX, was nearly forced out in 2018
FTX’s new management filed a series of declarations detailing its efforts to make sense of SBF’s tangled financial web, and among it is the $3.2 billion in payments and ‘loans’ by FTX and its affiliates.
Coin mixer ChipMixer taken down by global authorities
Europol has announced a joint operation between German and U.S. authorities to take down ChipMixer, which authorities allege has been used to launder EUR 2.73 billion in digital assets.
Even Binance thinks the Tether stablecoin is an unbacked scam
Binance founder Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao gave an interview to Protocol where he expressed Binance's relationship with the two largest stablecoins: Tether and Circle's USDC.
Tether alleged shadow banker Reggie Fowler seeks 6-month sentencing delay
Fowler’s lawyer claims to be sick and wants sentencing pushed for the ex-football player accused of providing banking services to Bitfinex, Tether and others
Probe into $2,600 Indian job fraud reveals $390M Binance-linked digital asset scam
Indian police thought they were curbing a simple job scam but stumbled upon one of the largest digital asset scams, with Binance and OKCoin reportedly at the heart of it.
Where is my BTC? El Salvador residents mysteriously losing money from Chivo wallets
The latest blow to the BTC circus in El Salvador is the mysterious loss of funds from the state-issued Chivo wallets, which the vocal president is quiet about.
Tether reaches new lows in quest to avoid being audited
Never forget that Tether used to tell you that it was 100% backed by U.S. currency, and it was only after an New York Attorney General investigation forced its hand that it ever admitted this wasn’t the case.
This amicus brief for Coinbase is so wrong
In this article, ZeMing Gao looks into the amicus brief for Coinbase, why speculation drives regulators to enact securities laws, and how an asset is classified as a security.
‘Crypto’ scams decline, but ransomware rising at a near-record pace
'Crypto' crime inflows slumped over $5.2 billion this year from the same period in 2022, with authorities crediting it to the reduction in outright scams and the demise of two major criminal groups.