The ruling concerns an appeal by Dr. Wright to overturn an earlier decision in which a High Court judge declined jurisdiction to hear his defamation case against Norway-based Twitter user Magnus Granath.
The 5MLD are an expansion of current AML/CTF regulations into the cryptocurrency space, and were designed to protect against potential abuses of the technology by criminal actors.
The lawsuit alleged that YouTube had “feigned ignorance” as XRP scams defrauded millions of dollars on the video sharing platform.
The new proposed regulation seeks to ban pension funds from buying and holding digital assets, which are defined in the draft legislation as "crypto-assets."
Bitpanda claimed that it could now perform regulated custodian services in the U.K., but the FCA, which regulates Trustology, quickly put that notion to rest with an announcement of its own.
Sirin Labs, Stox and Leadcoin raised over $250 million in their respective token sales, but according to the employees, the operators directed the funds to their own personal expenses.
BCH is headed for another messy divorce in November 2020 as the network seeks to officially remove its latest group of heretics.
A Coinbase user has initiated a class action suit against the cryptocurrency exchange, seeking recovery for customers who paid commissions for XRP trading.
The hearing was originally set for McCormack’s strike-out application to be heard, but given that this was withdrawn, Wright’s lawyers had hoped to resolve the case this week.
The move comes after the activation of the privacy feature MimbleWimble and brings the total number of digital currency exchanges that have delisted Litecoin to five, including Upbit and Bithumb.
Africrypt was a digital currency investment company targeting the rich and celebrities, until founders Raees and Ameer Cajee claimed earlier this year to be hacked and lost all the investors’ money.
After claiming that they had properly managed risk and that no client funds were impacted, SBF announced that FTX was "injecting $250m into BlockFi and partnering with them."
