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BitMEX is in hot water with the CFTC and DOJ. Thursday, a dual agency operation levied charges against the derivatives exchange and several employees for facilitating unregistered trading and violating the Bank Secrecy…
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With Pres. Trump testing positive and a systemically important exchange in deep trouble, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!The cryptocurrency and Asian stock markets dumped early Friday after U.S. Pres.…
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The head of bitcoin escrow company Volantis pleaded guilty in New York on Thursday to bilking an investor of over $3 million. He also settled parallel commodities fraud charges.Jon Barry Thompson, 49, admitted in Manhattan federal district…
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It pays to be a miner and process cryptocurrency transactions on a proof-of-work blockchain. The Ethereum miners know this especially well as they made a record $166 million last month from transaction fees. Bitcoin miners, however, could…
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U.S. regulators and law-enforcement officials brought charges on Thursday against BitMEX, a Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange that has grown in recent years to be one of the industry’s biggest players.According to the U.S. Commodity…
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Data from Arcane Research shows that open interest on Bitmex’s bitcoin derivatives market touched a new low of 45,122 BTC on October 1. The figure represents a 16% drop since the CFTC announced charges against Bitmex and its executives for…
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Cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform Bitmex has been charged with illegally operating in the U.S. Concurrently, its executives, including CEO Arthur Hayes, have been charged with violations of the Bank Secrecy Act and are facing…
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The principal of a cryptocurrency escrow company, Jon Barry Thompson, has pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to commodities fraud. In 2018, he took over $3 million from one company and failed to deliver bitcoins worth that amount.Crypto…
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Venezuela Passes Law Legalizing Crypto Mining, Forces Miners to Join National Mining PoolReports say Venezuela has now legalized bitcoin mining following the decree recently issued by the National Superintendency of Crypto Assets and…
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During the last year, Ethereum has dominated the decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem but a number of other blockchain projects plan to join the fray. The second layer, smart contract protocol RSK aims to bring the defi demand to the…
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